Ann. occup. Hyg., Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 135-153, 1997
© 1997 British Occupational Hygiene Society
Published by Oxford University Press
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A COLLABORATIVE EUROPEAN STUDY OF PERSONAL INHALABLE AEROSOL SAMPLER PERFORMANCE
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*Health and Safety Laboratory, Health and Safety Executive Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ, U.K.
IOM, U.K.
Datastat, U.K.
¶INSHT,Spain
**Wageningen University Netherlands
Arbetsilvsinstitutet, Sweden
AEA, U.K.
BIA, Germany
Bologna University Italy
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Following the adoption of new international sampling conventions for inhalable, thoracic and respirable aerosol fractions, a working group of Comité Européen de Normalisation (CEN) drafted a standard for the performance of workplace aerosol sampling instruments. The present study was set up to verify the experimental, statistical and mathematical procedures recommended in the draft performance standard and to check that they could be applied to inhalable aerosol samplers. This was achieved by applying the tests to eight types of personal inhalable aerosol sampler commonly used for workplace monitoring throughout Europe. The study led to recommendations for revising the CEN draft standard, in order to simplify the tests and reduce their cost. However, some further work will be needed to develop simpler test facilities and methods. Several of the samplers tested were found to perform adequately with respect to the inhalable sampling convention, at least over a limited range of typical workplace conditions. In general the samplers were found to perform best in low external wind speeds, which are the test conditions thought to be closest to those normally found in indoor workplaces. The practical implementation of the CEN aerosol sampling conventions requires decisions on which sampling instruments to use, estimation of the likely impact that changing sampling methods could have on apparent exposures, and adjustment where necessary of exposure limit values. The sampler performance data obtained in this project were affected by large experimental errors, but are nevertheless a useful input to decisions on how to incorporate the CEN inhalable sampling convention into regulation, guidance and occupational hygiene practice. Crown Copyright © 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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