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Share Your Data
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
(ACGIH)
Construction Safety Committee
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The Need: IH's & contractors can use task and activity
exposure info to control exposures and comply with regulations.
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Action: Develop a silica exposure database for
the construction industry. Database is to be built by shared information
(data) that is submitted by different contributing groups. Data can
be submitted directly on the template or in other formats and WVU
will enter (within resource limits). Confidentiality of data will
be protected using Human Subjects Procedures at WVU. Data will be
analyzed, and estimates of task and activity exposure levels will
be made available on the web. Finally, WVU will eventually, move the
database to the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
(ACGIH) web page when feasible.
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Benefits: These will include making the data available to
assist IH's/contractors in protecting workers from silica exposures,
provide data for policy or regulatory processes, develop a guide by
ACGIH Construction Committee with task or activity based exposure
estimates, and demonstrate feasibility of this collection method to
assist in data sharing for other fields as well.
Data Base:
Photos illustrating task and tool terminology-- ppdatabase
For more information on the database
contact:
Brandon Takacs
Brandon.Takacs@mail.wvu.edu
Safety and Health Extension
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