| Document ID (ISN) | 100674 |
| CIS number |
02-1730 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0034-8732 - Prevención |
| Year |
2002 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Velasco Ortega J., Martín Egurza M. |
| Title |
Evaluation of hygiene risks in quarries and cement plants: General aspects (I) |
| Original title |
Evaluación del riesgo higiénico en canteras y cementeras: aspectos generales (I) [in Spanish] |
| Bibliographic information |
July-Sep. 2002, No.161, p.8-22. Illus. 8 ref. |
| Abstract |
This article in two parts (see also CIS 02-1731) reviews the current industrial hygiene methods used to identify, evaluate and control the main hazards resulting from exposure to chemical and physical agents during the various operations of open-air quarries and cement manufacturing plants. Contents: description of quarrying and cement manufacturing operations; types of cement (natural, artificial); chemical contaminants (silica, hexavalent chromium, nickel, cobalt) and physical agents (noise, lighting, thermal stress, ionizing radiation); effects of dust exposure on health (deposition in the lungs, silicosis); skin hazards; limiting the exposure to chemicals (monitoring inhalable and breathable dust fractions, hexavalent chromium, other metals); practical example of the evaluation of exposure to dust in two quarries. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupational hygiene; cement industry; quarrying industry; health hazards; respirable dust |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
threshold limit values; airborne dust; cobalt; nickel; sensitization; keratosis; hazard evaluation; chromium; silica |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | Spain |
| Subject(s) |
Mines and quarries
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Industries and occupations
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Cement and concrete
Mining and quarrying
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