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Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2006 50(7):737-745; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mel031
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Occupational Hygiene Society

Variability of Exposure and Estimation of Cumulative Exposure in a Manually Operated Coal Mine

SIMON H. D. MAMUYA1,2,3,*, MAGNE BRÅTVEIT2, JULIUS MWAISELAGE4 and BENTE E. MOEN2

1 Centre for International Health, University of Bergen Norway
2 Section for Occupational Medicine, Department for Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Bergen Norway
3 Department of Community Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences
4 Cancer Prevention Division, Ocean Road Cancer Institute Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +47-55-58-6100; fax: +47-55-58-6105; e-mail: mamuyasimon@yahoo.com

This study aims at estimating variability in exposure to respirable dust and assessing whether the a priori grouping by job team is appropriate for an exposure–response study on respiratory effects among workers in a manually operated coal mine in Tanzania. Furthermore, estimated exposure levels were used to calculate cumulative exposure. Full-shift personal respirable dust samples (n = 204) were collected from 141 randomly chosen workers at underground and surface work sites. The geometric mean exposure for respirable dust varied from 0.07 mg m–3 for office workers to 1.96 mg m–3 for the development team. The analogous range of respirable quartz exposure was 0.006–0.073 mg m–3. Variance components were estimated using random effect models. For most job teams the within-worker variance component was considerably higher than the between-worker variance component. For respirable dust the estimated attenuation of the linear exposure–response relationship was low (5.9%) when grouping by job team. Grouping by job team was considered appropriate for studying the association between current dust exposure and respiratory effects. Based on the estimated worker-specific mean exposure in the job teams, the arithmetic mean cumulative exposure for the 299 workers who participated in the epidemiological part of the study was 38.1 mg· yr m–3 for respirable dust and 2.0 mg· yr m–3 for quartz.

Keywords: coal mining • cumulative exposure • exposure variability • respirable dust • quartz


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