Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment
"Background: This study aimed to develop an index that can rank welding workplace that associate well with possible health risk of welders. Methods: Welding Fumes Health Index (WFHI) were developed based on data from case studies conducted in Plant 1 and Plant 2. Personal sampling of welding...
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| author | Hariri, Azian Paiman, Nuur Azreen Leman, Abdul Mutalib Md. Yusof, Mohammad Zainal |
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| description | "Background: This study aimed to develop an index that can rank welding workplace that associate well with possible health risk of welders.
Methods: Welding Fumes Health Index (WFHI) were developed based on data from case studies conducted in Plant 1 and Plant 2. Personal sampling of welding fumes to assess the concentration of metal constituents along with series of lung function tests was conducted. Fifteen metal constituents were investigated in each case study. Index values were derived from aggregation analysis of metal constituent concentration while significant lung functions were recog-nized through statistical analysis in each plant.
Results: The results showed none of the metal constituent concentration was exceeding the permissible exposure limit (PEL) for all plants. However, statistical analysis showed significant mean differences of lung functions between welders and non-welders. The index was then applied to one of the welding industry (Plant 3) for verification purpose. The developed index showed its promising ability to rank welding workplace, according to the multiple constituent concentrations of welding fumes that associates well with lung functions of the investigated welders.
Conclusion: There was possibility that some of the metal constituents were below the detection limit leading to '0' value of sub index, thus the multiplicative form of aggregation model was not suitable for analysis. On the other hand, maximum or minimum operator forms suffer from compensation issues and were not considered in this study. " |
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| spelling | uthm-49212021-12-23T08:30:25Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4921/ Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment Hariri, Azian Paiman, Nuur Azreen Leman, Abdul Mutalib Md. Yusof, Mohammad Zainal TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T173.2-174.5 Technological change "Background: This study aimed to develop an index that can rank welding workplace that associate well with possible health risk of welders. Methods: Welding Fumes Health Index (WFHI) were developed based on data from case studies conducted in Plant 1 and Plant 2. Personal sampling of welding fumes to assess the concentration of metal constituents along with series of lung function tests was conducted. Fifteen metal constituents were investigated in each case study. Index values were derived from aggregation analysis of metal constituent concentration while significant lung functions were recog-nized through statistical analysis in each plant. Results: The results showed none of the metal constituent concentration was exceeding the permissible exposure limit (PEL) for all plants. However, statistical analysis showed significant mean differences of lung functions between welders and non-welders. The index was then applied to one of the welding industry (Plant 3) for verification purpose. The developed index showed its promising ability to rank welding workplace, according to the multiple constituent concentrations of welding fumes that associates well with lung functions of the investigated welders. Conclusion: There was possibility that some of the metal constituents were below the detection limit leading to '0' value of sub index, thus the multiplicative form of aggregation model was not suitable for analysis. On the other hand, maximum or minimum operator forms suffer from compensation issues and were not considered in this study. " Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4921/1/AJ%202017%20%28245%29%20Development%20of%20welding%20fumes%20health%20index.pdf Hariri, Azian and Paiman, Nuur Azreen and Leman, Abdul Mutalib and Md. Yusof, Mohammad Zainal (2014) Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment. Iranian Journal of Public Health, 43 (8). pp. 1045-1059. ISSN 2251-6085 http://ijph.tums.ac.ir |
| spellingShingle | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T173.2-174.5 Technological change Hariri, Azian Paiman, Nuur Azreen Leman, Abdul Mutalib Md. Yusof, Mohammad Zainal Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment |
| title | Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment |
| title_full | Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment |
| title_fullStr | Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment |
| title_short | Development of welding fumes health index (WFHI) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment |
| title_sort | development of welding fumes health index (wfhi) for welding workplace’s safety and health assessment |
| topic | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T173.2-174.5 Technological change |
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