TY - JOUR
T1 - Exposure to benzene in fuel distribution installations
T2 - Monitoring and prevention
AU - Peretz, Chava
AU - Froom, Paul
AU - Pardo, Asher
AU - Goren, Ayana
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - The authors used a mixed-effects model on a cohort of 258 randomly chosen workers in 7 fuel-distribution facilities to examine the association between airborne benzene exposure and task and timing factors. During an 8-y period, 692 repeated personal measurements were performed. Filler task, warm month, Tuesday, credit day, and time period (1992-1996) were associated significantly with higher exposures to benzene. The authors controlled for the time period, and task type strongly affected the between-worker variance; therefore, two exposure groups (i.e., fillers and nonfillers) were adequate for purposes of exposure grouping strategy. Timing factors (after controlling for task and period effects) strongly affected the high within-worker variance (> 2 than between-worker variance). Long-term exposure would be better represented if the sample was stratified by warm/non-warm months and if measurement days were selected randomly.
AB - The authors used a mixed-effects model on a cohort of 258 randomly chosen workers in 7 fuel-distribution facilities to examine the association between airborne benzene exposure and task and timing factors. During an 8-y period, 692 repeated personal measurements were performed. Filler task, warm month, Tuesday, credit day, and time period (1992-1996) were associated significantly with higher exposures to benzene. The authors controlled for the time period, and task type strongly affected the between-worker variance; therefore, two exposure groups (i.e., fillers and nonfillers) were adequate for purposes of exposure grouping strategy. Timing factors (after controlling for task and period effects) strongly affected the high within-worker variance (> 2 than between-worker variance). Long-term exposure would be better represented if the sample was stratified by warm/non-warm months and if measurement days were selected randomly.
KW - Benzene
KW - Fillers
KW - Fuel distribution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033623080&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00039890009604043
DO - 10.1080/00039890009604043
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C2 - 11128883
AN - SCOPUS:0033623080
SN - 0003-9896
VL - 55
SP - 439
EP - 446
JO - Archives of Environmental Health
JF - Archives of Environmental Health
IS - 6
ER -