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Exposure to organic vapors in the workplace is a source of occupational risk. Admissible exposure levels are tightly regulated and must be closely monitored. However, the complexity and slowness of the existing complete protocols to determine…

Safety nets are fitted when falls from height cannot be avoided by other collective protection means. Performance of the nets is assessed in compliance with Standard EN 1263-1. That standard specifies lengthy and tedious natural or artificial…

INRS and IFA have teamed up to compare their methods for sampling and analysis bitumen fumes. A bitumen fumes generation facility was developed to simultaneously expose six German and six French samplers to the same polluted atmosphere. The…

A 58 year old hospital cleaner presents a severe eczema after the use of PVC made gloves. Patch tests were positive to pieces of gloves, tricresyl phosphate, thiuram mix ant stearyl alcohol. Gloves were solvent extracted and analysed, and tricresyl…

Quantifying semi-volatile organic aerosols in workplace air is a critical step in assessing employee exposure to these types of aerosols. Indeed, numerous organic compounds coexist both in particulate and gaseous form. However, the sampling…

Under the "Bitumen and paving" project which involved the INRS and professionals producers and users, the development of a method for sampling and analysing bitumen fumes was undertaken. This Communication aims to present the developments made…

Road-surfacing, asphalting and weatherproofing work exposes workers to fumes that are complex mixes of hydrocarbons due to the bitumen or asphalt being worked while it is hot. The method MetroPol 123 recently developed at the Pollutants Metrology…

The objective of this study is to develop a technique for analysing atmospheric samples of volatile organic compounds that does not use solvent. This technique is based on coupling extraction using carbon dioxide (CO2) in a supercritical state…