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The Measurement of Low Concentrations of Organic and Inorganic Gaseous Contaminants in Occupational Environments by X-Ray Spectrometry (XRS)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

N. G. West ,
C. J. Purnell ,
R. H. Brown  and
E. Withers
N. G. West
Affiliation:
Health and Safety Executive Occupational Hygiene Laboratories 403 Edgware Road, London NW2 6LN., England
C. J. Purnell
Affiliation:
Health and Safety Executive Occupational Hygiene Laboratories 403 Edgware Road, London NW2 6LN., England
R. H. Brown
Affiliation:
Health and Safety Executive Occupational Hygiene Laboratories 403 Edgware Road, London NW2 6LN., England
E. Withers
Affiliation:
Health and Safety Executive Occupational Hygiene Laboratories 403 Edgware Road, London NW2 6LN., England
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To ensure that workers in certain industries are not exposed to harmful levels of toxic chemicals, it is necessary to provide regular monitoring of the concentrations of chemical contaminants in the workplace air. In the United Kingdom, monitoring is normally carried out on a routine basis by the factory occupier backed up by periodic visits from the Factory Inspectorate acting on behalf of the Government. The main source of guidance for occupational hygienists in assessing conditions in a factory is the list of threshold limit values (TLVs) published annually by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. Threshold limit values refer to airborne concentrations of substances and represent conditions under which it is believed that nearly all workers may be repeatedly exposed day after day without adverse effect.

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V. XRF Environmental Applications
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Advances in X-Ray Analysis , Volume 25: Thirtieth Annual Conference on Applications of X-ray Analysis, August 3-7, 1981 , 1981 , pp. 181 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1981

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