Airborne Dust Monitoring during Grain Handling
This paper presents a pilot study that purposed to investigate grain dusty exposure related to the health hazard of farmers during grain handling. The concentrations of airborne grain dust exposed were measured by a personal particulate monitor with five farmers operating various tasks of grain handling at different farms. Endotoxins and microorganisms contained in the dust were analyzed from the personal sampling in the breathing zone. The results show that the farmers were exposed to higher concentrations of the airborne grain dusts when they were cleaning the harvester, shoving or sweeping grains for the unloading. Also, all the contents of endotoxins exceeded an exposure risk limit for inflammation of respiratory tract. In order to reduce the health risk in grain handling, some protective approaches are recommended.
airborne dust endotozin farmers grain handling health risks microorganism occupational ezposure working environment
Qiuqing Geng
JTI - Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Uppsala, Sweden
国际会议
上海
英文
3745-3748
2008-05-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）