meh072 Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence Program for Estimating Occupational Exposures (original) (raw)

2004

Abstract

developed by UK’s Health and Safety Executive to assess exposure. EASE computes estimated airborne concentrations based on a substance’s vapor pressure and the types of controls in the work area. Though EASE is intended only to make broad predictions of exposure from occupa-tional environments, some occupational hygienists might attempt to use EASE for individual exposure characterizations. This study investigated whether EASE would accurately predict actual sampling results from a chemical manufacturing process. Personal breathing zone time-weighted average (TWA) monitoring data for two volatile organic chemicals—a common solvent (toluene) and a specialty monomer (chloroprene)—present in this manufacturing process were compared to EASE-generated estimates. EASE-estimated concentrations for specific tasks were weighted by task durations reported in the monitoring record to yield TWA estimates from EASE that could be directly compared to the measured TWA data. Two hundred and six chl...

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