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Evaluation du degré de protection d'un système masque-cartouche lors d'un travail avec de l'amiante

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Sozial- und Präventivmedizin/Social and Preventive Medicine

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During removal of sprayed-on asbestos coating workers are exposed to high airborne fiber concentrations. The true protection of negative pressure respirators under working conditions was evaluated during an asbestos abatement project. A modification allowing air sampling inside the mask is described. The values for samples collected inside a full-face mask ranged between 0.4 and 5 % of the concentrations measured outside. These values were considerably lower than those found inside a half-mask.

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Bei der Beseitigung von Spritzasbestverputz werden hohe Feinstaubkonzentrationen freigesetzt. Technische und persönliche Arbeitsschutzmassnahmen sind erforderlich. Personenprobenahmen innerhalb und ausserhalb der getragenen Atemschutzmaske ermöglichten einen Anorttest deren Schutzwirkung. In der Vollmaske wurden Werte zwischen 0,4 und 5 % der Faseraussenkonzentrationen gemessen. Diese Werte sind erheblich tiefer als diejenigen die in einer Halbmaske gemessen wurden.

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Cuendet, P.A., Bilat, D. Evaluation du degré de protection d'un système masque-cartouche lors d'un travail avec de l'amiante. Soz Präventivmed 29, 42–43 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02301723

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