A Citizen-Science Approach to Occupational Hazard Assessment

职业危害评估的公民科学方法

• 批准号: 10437479
• 负责人: Ellison M Carter
• 金额: $ 57.76万
• 依托单位: COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10437479
• 关键词: Citizen; Science; Approach; Occupational; Hazard

Abstract Comprehensive exposure assessment in the field of occupational health has been limited, historically, by a combination of technological, financial, and human factors. The cost and complexity of personal sampling technology limits a single industrial hygienist (IH) to making, at most, about 10 measurements of personal airborne exposure each day. Many hygienists can work together to produce a larger exposure dataset; however, the cost to assess exposures for every worker in a facility is exorbitant under the current paradigm. These limitations hinder our ability to identify workers at risk of overexposure; they also lead to imprecise effect estimates in occupational epidemiology. Collectively, these limitations lead to greater risks of poor health outcomes among workers. This project seeks to develop new technologic and methodologic approaches for assessing worker exposure to occupational air pollutants. We will develop a wearable exposure monitor for aerosol and vapor hazards that is immediately deployable “out of the box” with minimal user training. Further, the monitor will be designed to take reference-quality measurements of tens to potentially hundreds of different airborne compounds. We also seek to transform the practice of industrial hygiene by further leveraging support and participation of the workers themselves through a citizen-science approach to hazard identification and exposure assessment. Successful completion of this research will enable dramatically greater sample sizes for personal exposure measurements in the workplace, which, in turn, will promote more better professional judgement, more efficient hazard control, more effective epidemiology, and improved worker health. A second goal is to demonstrate the potential for citizen science to improve worker comprehension of and engagement in workplace safety culture. The project has two aims. The first is to develop a simple, inexpensive, “smart” sampling device for comprehensive assessment of personal exposures to aerosol and vapor hazards. The device will be small and easy to deploy and wear while containing quality-assurance features necessary to meet the performance of accepted standard reference methods (active flow control, fault monitoring, user compliance). The second aim is to conduct a series of field deployments to evaluate whether the new technology, when used with a citizen science approach, can promote better engagement in and knowledge of workplace health and safety among workers, organizations, and industrial hygienists. We hypothesize that the citizen-science approach will change worker- and organizational-level attitudes and behaviors relevant to occupational hazard assessment and mitigation. We also hypothesize that industrial hygienists will improve their ability to accurately assign workers to exposure control categories, when presented with the comprehensive exposure data we generate. Successful completion of this work will validate a new technology for workplace hazard assessment while demonstrating the utility of a citizen science approach to increase knowledge and awareness of health and safety in the workplace.

抽象的 历史上，职业健康领域的综合暴露评估一直受到以下因素的限制： 技术、财务和人为因素的结合。个人抽样的成本和复杂性。 技术限制单个工业卫生员 (IH) 最多只能进行大约 10 次个人测量 然而，每天的空气暴露量可以由许多卫生员共同生成更大的暴露数据集； 在目前的模式下，评估设施中每个工人的暴露成本过高。 这些限制阻碍了我们识别有过度暴露风险的工人的能力，它们也会导致不精确的效果； 职业流行病学估计，这些限制总的来说会导致更大的健康不良风险。 工人之间的结果。 该项目旨在开发新的技术和方法来评估工人接触 我们将开发一种用于气溶胶和蒸气危害的可穿戴暴露监测器。 只需最少的用户培训即可“开箱即用”立即部署。 此外，该监视器的设计旨在适应。 我们还寻求对数十种甚至数百种不同的空气传播化合物进行参考质量测量。 通过进一步利用工人的支持和参与来改变工业卫生实践 他们通过公民科学方法成功识别和暴露评估。 这项研究的完成将为个人暴露测量提供更大的样本量 在工作场所，这反过来将促进更好的专业判断，更有效的危险控制， 更有效的流行病学和改善工人健康的第二个目标是证明其潜力。 公民科学，以提高工人对工作场所安全文化的理解和参与。 有两个目标，第一是开发一种简单、廉价、“智能”的综合采样装置。 评估个人暴露于气溶胶​​和蒸气危害的情况。该设备体积小且易于部署。 和磨损，同时包含满足公认标准性能所需的质量保证功能 参考方法（主动流量控制、故障监控、用户合规性）。 现场部署，以评估新技术与公民科学方法一起使用时是否可以 促进工人、组织、组织更好地参与和了解工作场所健康和安全 我们勇敢地相信公民科学方法将改变工人和工业卫生学家。 与职业危害评估和缓解相关的组织层面的态度和行为。 培养工业卫生员将提高准确分配工人进行接触控制的能力 类别，当提供我们生成的全面暴露数据时，成功完成此操作。 这项工作将验证工作场所危险评估的新技术，同时展示公民的实用性 科学方法来提高工作场所健康和安全的知识和意识。

项目成果

AirPen: A Wearable Monitor for Characterizing Exposures to Particulate Matter and Volatile Organic Compounds.

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c02238
• 发表时间: 2023-07-25
• 期刊: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
• 影响因子: 11.4
• 作者: Tryner, Jessica;Quinn, Casey;Rueda, Emilio Molina;Andales, Marie J. J.;LOrange, Christian;Mehaffy, John;Carter, Ellison;Volckens, John
• 通讯作者: Volckens, John