Annals of Occupational Hygiene Advance Access originally published online on March 29, 2005
Annals of Occupational Hygiene 2005 49(3):197-199; doi:10.1093/annhyg/mei008
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Occupational Exposure Visualization Comes of Age
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It has been 20 years since video exposure monitoring (VEM) was embraced as an instrument to provide better documentation of at-risk workers both in Europe and in the United States. Although the first VEM efforts started independently, the passion for this new technology and what it can do to improve the occupational environment has been advanced by a small but growing team of researchers on both sides of the Atlantic. As technology advances over the next ten years, VEM is set to become one of the major instruments in the arsenal of occupational exposure assessment and control.
The technical aspects and uses of VEM are reviewed in this issue by some of the key players in these developments (Rosén et al., 2005
). In the