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Airborne Asbestos Concentrations During Spray-Buffing of Resilient Floor Tile
Abstract
A study was conducted to determine the level of airborne asbestos concentrations during routine spray-buffing of asbestos-containing floor tiles at 17 schools in northern, central, and southern New Jersey. Although the schools selected do not represent a statistical random sample, they do represent a cross section of floor conditions and floor-care maintenance practices. Increased airborne asbestos levels during spray-buffing were measured at 12 of the 17 schools. The increase was statistically significant at 7 of the 17 schools. Overall, the mean relative increase in airborne asbestos concentrations during spray-buffing with the high-speed machines (1000 to 1500 rpm) was statistically significantly higher than that during buffing with low-speed machines (175 to 330 rpm). Machine speed appeared to have a significant effect on the structure morphology of the airborne asbestos structures generated during spray-buffing. This study demonstrates that routine spray-buffing of asbestos-containing resilient floor tile can be a source of asbestos-containing particles in building air.
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“In these studies the non-regulated fibers, SAF, and LAF with a diameter < 0.2 μm, represented between 50 and 100% of the total fibers, with the majority of samples between 80 and 100% respectively.”
From Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: A review of fiber size toxicity (2014) · cites this paper as [10]
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“Analysis of asbestos size categories according to sectors of activity and the concentration levels found in the literature [10-18] highlight a number of sectors with higher prevalence of SAF, including in particular asbestos cement production, friction materials production, brake systems repair and mining.”
From Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: A review of fiber size toxicity (2014) · cites this paper as [10]
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“The sector of activity corresponding to the removal of floor tiles stands a priori by the very low level or absence of LAF [10,13,14].”
From Quantification of short and long asbestos fibers to assess asbestos exposure: A review of fiber size toxicity (2014) · cites this paper as [10]
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- 1992, Evaluation of Asbestos Fiber Release During Maintenance of Asbestos-Containing Floor tile. Final Report
- 1993, Airborne Asbestos Concentrations During Buffing of Resilient Floor Tile in New Jersey Schools
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Boulanger, G., Andujar, P., Pairon, J.-C., Billon-Galland, M.-A., Dion, C., Dumortier, P., Brochard, P., Sobaszek, A., Bartsch, P., Paris, C., et al. (2014) · Environmental Health · doi:10.1186/1476-069x-13-59 · Cited by 176
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- Edwards, A., Kominsky, J. R., & Freyberg, R. W.
- Venue
- Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1994-02
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 132-138
- ISSN
- 1047-322X
- 1521-0898
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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