Occupational asbestos exposure impacts more than a million Americans each year.1 Once hailed a “wonder material,” asbestos served a central role in American commercial product manufacturing and ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Over the next two weeks, lead, asbestos and silica sample testing will be conducted at North Park Montessori School, closed in February for potential asbestos exposure during a ...
Historically, the greatest contributions to airborne asbestos concentrations during brake repair work were likely due to specific, short-duration, dust-generating activities. In this paper, the ...
Exposure assessments are key tools to conduct epidemiological studies. Since 2010, 28 riveters from 18 brake repair shops with different characteristics and workloads were sampled for asbestos ...
The Apex, a new series of personal air sampling pumps, has been launched by Casella CEL for use by occupational and industrial hygienists, health, safety and environmental monitoring consultants and ...
The United Kingdom and the United States share many similarities but are distinctly different in the way each nation structures and enforces their respective health and safety legislation, monitoring ...
You don't have to be a certified industrial hygienist to do personal air sampling." That's what I've told hundreds of participants in introductory industrial hygiene courses I have taught since 1994.
March 17 (UPI) --Workers found natural-occurring asbestos in the rocks and air near the damaged Oroville Dam spillway, the California Department of Water Resources said. The agency, in a news release ...
As a report by the United Kingdom government says asbestos remediation at the Palace of Westminster could tie up 300 workers for two-and-a-half years – with the building remaining inactive the whole ...