Since 1986 the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and then in 1987 the International Agency for Research on Cancer, have declared the carcinogen asbestos effect and its dangers is widely documented in the scientific literature. In light of this evidence, many countries have banned the use of such material. Having noted the high danger of asbestos and carcinogenic potency of the different mineralogical species that refer to it, legislators have found themselves faced with two possible solutions: fully ban the use of asbestos or introduce pension obligations rigorous to reduce a acceptable levels of risk. The Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 regulates the criteria and methods for the assessment of risks in all work activities still existing after the ban on asbestos use , and for all those situations in which this material is still present and that may to comport a like risk of exposure for workers employed. The scientific literature, there is no one universally shared about the identification of persons exposed to asbestos and a consequent cataloging classes of intensity of exposure, are in fact used in different ways about the assessment of the risk of exposure to asbestos but none of them appears to be universally accepted by scholars of this problem [1, 6]. Today new environmental monitoring systems based on wireless sensors, to assess the pollution of urban centers, industrial site and other works subject to environmental protection, etc. [7, 10], but unfortunately can not to they give information about past situations. In this work for the evaluation of the value of the concentration of asbestos fibers in subjects at risk, is presented to the application of an analytical methodology to able give a response in terms of the concentration values absorbed by workers who play or that have played in time -difficult to evaluate- hazardous activities at asbestos risk.

An Analytical Methodology for the Assessment of the Concentration Fiber of Asbestos in Subjects at Risk Exposure

CANNISTRARO, Giuseppe;
2013-01-01

Abstract

Since 1986 the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and then in 1987 the International Agency for Research on Cancer, have declared the carcinogen asbestos effect and its dangers is widely documented in the scientific literature. In light of this evidence, many countries have banned the use of such material. Having noted the high danger of asbestos and carcinogenic potency of the different mineralogical species that refer to it, legislators have found themselves faced with two possible solutions: fully ban the use of asbestos or introduce pension obligations rigorous to reduce a acceptable levels of risk. The Legislative Decree no. 81/2008 regulates the criteria and methods for the assessment of risks in all work activities still existing after the ban on asbestos use , and for all those situations in which this material is still present and that may to comport a like risk of exposure for workers employed. The scientific literature, there is no one universally shared about the identification of persons exposed to asbestos and a consequent cataloging classes of intensity of exposure, are in fact used in different ways about the assessment of the risk of exposure to asbestos but none of them appears to be universally accepted by scholars of this problem [1, 6]. Today new environmental monitoring systems based on wireless sensors, to assess the pollution of urban centers, industrial site and other works subject to environmental protection, etc. [7, 10], but unfortunately can not to they give information about past situations. In this work for the evaluation of the value of the concentration of asbestos fibers in subjects at risk, is presented to the application of an analytical methodology to able give a response in terms of the concentration values absorbed by workers who play or that have played in time -difficult to evaluate- hazardous activities at asbestos risk.
2013
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