Personal exposure sampling provides the most accurate and representative assessment of exposure to a pollutant, but only if measures are implemented to minimize exposure misclassification and reduce ...

Monitoring and sampling for dusts, gases, vapors, and mists should be a part of any personal exposure assessment initiative and is not only accepted practice, it represents best practice when done ...

The director of the Radiation Safety Office at Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Jacob Kamen is a certified health physicist who oversees the medical center’s use of ionizing radiation. A 20-year veteran in ...

Exposure monitoring involves the evaluation of all exposures to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents and the implementation of control measures to mitigate the exposures. The ...

One of the challenges for Department of Defense public health experts in determining the impact of exposures on service members is identifying specific exposures and quantifying the exposure level ...

Summer is around the corner -- time for cookouts and sunbathing. But too much sun can result in sunburn, which is the main cause of skin cancer. Because the time it takes to get burned depends on many ...

Changing the Workplace with Technology To assess the risk of workplace noise, a variety of monitoring solutions may be installed and utilized. Noise dosimeters are ideal for personal exposure ...

On November 11, the IAEA published a report on “Corroboration of External Exposure Monitoring: Performance of Whole-Body, Extremity and Eye-Lens Dosemeters” for the corroboration of occupational ...

hen most people hear the phrase "OSHA recordkeeping," they think of the log of occupational illnesses and injuries required by 29 CFR104, but OSHA has another recordkeeping standard. It is not ...

Reimagine Prep School notified families Tuesday of a possible bed bug exposure, prompting precautionary cleaning and ...