development of welding fumes health index (wfhi) for welding workplace's safety and health assessment.

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 fumes to assess the concentration of metal constituents along with series of lung function tests was cond...

NOMINATION OF WELDING FUMES FOR TOXICITY STUDIES National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Health effects of welding.

Many of the epidemiology studies performed are difficult to compare because of differences in worker populations, industrial settings, welding techniques, duration of exposure, and other occupational exposures besides welding fumes. Some studies were conducted in carefully controlled work environments, others during actual workplace conditions, and some in laboratories. Epidemiology studies hav...

Concentration Evaluation and Health Risk Assessment of Welders' Exposure to Total Fumes and Manganese during Welding at Metal Industry

Introduction and purpose: Risk assessment of toxic or hazardous chemicals enables industrial hygienists to make appropriate decisions regarding management provisions in a healthy workplace. Exposure to total fumes and manganese during welding can have harmful effects on welders’ health. Therefore, the present study was conducted in the metal industry to evaluate the concentration and determine ...

Toxicogenomic Approach to Risk Assessment of Welding Fumes

Exposure to welding fumes is already known to produce respiratory effects, such as pulmonary function, pneumoconiosis, and lung cancer, along with certain non-respiratory results, such as manganism [1]. However, despite a large number of publications on the pathophysiological process of welding fume exposure-induced diseases to understand the disease process in vivo and in vitro, relatively few...

Manganese speciation of laboratory-generated welding fumes.

The objective of this laboratory study was to identify and measure manganese (Mn) fractions in chamber-generated welding fumes (WF) and to evaluate and compare the results from a sequential extraction procedure for Mn fractions with that of an acid digestion procedure for measurement of total, elemental Mn. To prepare Mn-containing particulate matter from representative welding processes, a wel...