Managing quartz exposure in the construction industry
Tuomi, Tapani; Johnsson, Tom; Heino, Arto; Lainejoki, Anniina; Salmi, Kari; Poikkimäki, Mikko; Kanerva, Tomi; Säämänen, Arto; Räsänen, Tuula (2022)
Tuomi, Tapani
Johnsson, Tom
Heino, Arto
Lainejoki, Anniina
Salmi, Kari
Poikkimäki, Mikko
Kanerva, Tomi
Säämänen, Arto
Räsänen, Tuula
Editori
Tuomi, Tapani
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-391-065-2
https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-391-065-2
Tiivistelmä
This summary is the final report of the research project "Quartz Exposure and its Management in the Construction Industry" funded by the Finnish Work Environment Fund, the Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT, and the Finnish Construction Trade Union. The report outlines the safe performance of house building and infrastructure construction work that exposes you to respirable quartz dust. In essence, we describe how to perform dust producing worktasks with the exposure being less than 10 % of the current OEL (below the ASA registering threshold for those exposed to carcinogens at work). In addition, we list worktask specific solutions that lead to an exposure necessitating statutory health status monitoring by occupational health care (more than 40 % of OEL), and what methods are associated with excessive exposures (above OEL).
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