Inhalable dust (mg/m3) | Dermal CSM (µg/cm2) | |||||||
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n | AM | GM | GSD | n | AM | GM | GSD | |
n, number of measurements; AM, arithmetic mean; GM, geometric mean; GSD, geometric standard deviation. | ||||||||
Department | ||||||||
Compound and mixing | 72 | 2.09 | 1.04 | 2.74 | 76 | 104 | 40 | 3.22 |
Pre-treating | 66 | 1.05 | 0.67 | 2.60 | 69 | 32 | 25 | 2.04 |
Moulding | 165 | 2.26 | 0.67 | 3.49 | 177 | 101 | 37 | 3.45 |
Curing | 147 | 0.68 | 0.54 | 1.77 | 153 | 121 | 40 | 3.28 |
Finishing | 64 | 2.04 | 0.72 | 2.64 | 69 | 54 | 26 | 2.74 |
Shipping | 32 | 0.66 | 0.63 | 1.37 | 33 | 109 | 35 | 3.48 |
Engineering service | 55 | 1.41 | 0.64 | 2.85 | 56 | 545 | 68 | 5.40 |
Laboratory | 12 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 1.57 | 14 | 61 | 29 | 3.23 |
Plant | ||||||||
Plant 1 | 56 | 1.01 | 0.76 | 1.91 | 54 | 198 | 38 | 3.91 |
Plant 2 | 49 | 1.23 | 0.74 | 2.34 | 52 | 212 | 50 | 3.38 |
Plant 3 | 49 | 0.53 | 0.48 | 1.58 | 53 | 119 | 44 | 3.48 |
Plant 4 | 53 | 0.92 | 0.71 | 1.83 | 54 | 153 | 43 | 3.99 |
Plant 5 | 106 | 3.93 | 0.84 | 4.98 | 111 | 93 | 39 | 3.64 |
Plant 6 | 85 | 0.83 | 0.56 | 2.24 | 99 | 89 | 45 | 2.85 |
Plant 7 | 58 | 1.90 | 0.85 | 2.76 | 62 | 238 | 28 | 3.85 |
Plant 8 | 100 | 0.71 | 0.44 | 2.11 | 105 | 122 | 28 | 3.02 |
Plant 9 | 57 | 1.11 | 0.76 | 2.25 | 57 | 39 | 26 | 2.37 |
Type of plant | ||||||||
Retreading | 57 | 1.11 | 0.76 | 2.25 | 57 | 39 | 26 | 2.37 |
Tyre | 291 | 1.92 | 0.60 | 3.24 | 315 | 102 | 37 | 3.22 |
General rubber goods | 265 | 1.14 | 0.70 | 2.15 | 275 | 186 | 39 | 3.75 |
All | 613 | 1.50 | 0.66 | 2.69 | 647 | 132 | 37 | 3.38 |