Workplace personal exposure to respirable PM fraction: a study in sixteen indoor environments

Developmental Biology

Costas G. Helmis¹  Kyriaki Bairachtari²  Thomas Maggos²  Lefteris Volanis¹  Christos Vasilakos²  Dikaia E. Saraga² 

[1] Department of Environmental Physics and Meteorology, Faculty of Physics, University of Athens, University Campus, building PHYS-5, 157-84 Athens, Greece$$;Environmental Research Laboratory, INRASTES, National Center for Scientific Research “DEMOKRITOS”, Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, P.O.B. 60228, 15310 Athens, Greece$$

关键词: Exposure;    respirable particles;    working places;    ventilation rate;   

DOI  :  10.5094/APR.2014.050

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

来源: Dokuz Eylul Universitesi * Department of Environmental Engineering

【 摘 要 】

The present paper focuses on respirable particulate matter (RPM) measurements conducted at the breathing zone of adult volunteers in sixteen different working environments: two offices, a house, a chemical laboratory, a non–smoking shop, a pharmacy store, a car garage, a hairdresser's store, a photocopy store, a taxi, a gym, a mall, a restaurant, a bar, a kiosk and a school. The sixteen different cases were categorized according to the location, the type of the activities taking place indoors, the number of occupants, the proximity to heavy traffic roads, the ventilation pattern etc. According to the results, the maximum particle concentration (in average 285 μg m⁻³) was recorded at the hairdresser store while the minimum concentration was measured in the cases of the housewife and the employee in the non–smoking shop (in average 30 μg m⁻³). The results indicated smoking as a factor which strongly influences the exposure levels of both smokers and passive smokers. Furthermore, it was found that the building ventilation pattern comprises an important factor influencing the exposure levels especially in cases of buildings with great number of visitors (resuspension) and smoking.

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