Optimizing Occupational Exposure Measurement Strategies When Estimating the Log-Scale Arithmetic Mean Value—An Example from the Reinforced Plastics Industry

• Published in: The Annals of occupational hygiene Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 371 - 377
• Main Authors: LAMPA, ERIK G., NILSSON, LEIF, LILJELIND, INGRID E., BERGDAHL, INGVAR A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.06.2006
• Subjects: Air; Air Pollutants, Occupational - analysis; Biological and medical sciences; Chemical Industry; Environmental Monitoring - methods; Environmental pollutants toxicology; exposure assessment; Humans; measurement strategy; Medical sciences; Models, Statistical; Occupational Exposure - analysis; Plastics; Reproducibility of Results; Toxicology; variance components; Sweden; Europe; Human; variance components; Work place; Estimation; Reinforced plastics; exposure assessment; Occupational exposure; Concentration measurement; Organic solvent; Styrene; measurement strategy; Indoor pollution; Air pollution; Plastics industry; Measurement method; Variance component; Occupational medicine

When assessing occupational exposures, repeated measurements are in most cases required. Repeated measurements are more resource intensive than a single measurement, so careful planning of the measurement strategy is necessary to assure that resources are spent wisely. The optimal strategy depends o...