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http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.2014.18.4.1

Working Environment and Risk Assessment of Gasoline in Workplace  

Kim, Hyeon-Yeong (Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas / v.18, no.4, 2014 , pp. 1-7 More about this Journal
Abstract
To protect the workers' health, we evaluated the hazards of gasoline which the large amounts of use and lack of information, and perform the risk assessment through the measurement of working environment. It is estimated the reproductive toxicity, and has germ cell mutagenicity class 1B, also IARC 2B, ACGIH A3 with carcinogenicity. With working environment, it is measured as below the TLV-TWA $900mg/m^3$. It is also calculated $0.3mg/m^3$ as carcinogenicity RfC (worker), $2.7mg/m^3$ as chronic inhalation toxicity RfC (worker), $2.7mg/m^3$ as developmental toxicity RfC (worker). From all of these results, it is calculated that the risks are 459, 51 and 51 as carcinogenicity, chronic inhalation toxicity and developmental toxicity, respectively. It is concluded that the risk of gasoline is evaluated over 1.
Keywords
gasoline; risk assessment; dose-response;
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