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A Study on Exposure to Asbestos a Shipbuilding Repair Business

수리조선 작업장에서의 공기중 석면 노출에 관한 연구

  • Sim, Sang-Hyo (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hanyang University Medical Center) ;
  • Chung, Hee-Tae (Korea Healthcare Management Research Institute) ;
  • Song, Ki-Min (Law Firm Jeong Se) ;
  • Kim, Yoon-Shin (Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hanyang University Medical Center) ;
  • Kang, Yong-Seon (Changwon General Hospital Workers Accident Medical Corporation)
  • 심상효 (한양대학교병원 산업의학과) ;
  • 정희태 (한국의료경영정보연구원) ;
  • 송기민 (법무법인 정세) ;
  • 김윤신 (한양대학교병원 산업의학과) ;
  • 강용선 (산재의료관리원 창원병원)
  • Published : 2008.08.30
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Abstract

This paper aims to provide basic data for work environment control, prevention of worker exposure to asbestos and improvement of air quality to protect workers ‘health after measuring the level of airborne asbestos and workers' exposure in a shipbuilding repair businesses. For this study, a total of 27 samples were collected from 27 workers who had been exposed to asbestos during engine, piping, boiler and other manufacturing processes in 'A' Shipbuilding Repair Company in Gyeongnam. This research was conducted from Oct. 1 to 30, 2007 and had the following results: The target group (27 workers) consisted of all men with an average age of 35.9 years and 6.6 years of work on average. Among them, fifteen 15 (55.6%) were smokers. In terms of their duties at work, there were 12 plumbing repair engineers (44.4%), 8 boiler repair engineers (29.6%) and 7 engine engineers (25.9%). The geometric mean concentration of airborne asbestos was 0.004 f/cc. A total of 4 samples exceeded the exposure limit. In particular, three exceeded the legal limit by more than double, which means that some workers have been highly exposed to asbestos. In terms of the concentration of asbestos fibres by work process, plumbing repair was the highest (0.0071 f/cc($0.001{\sim}0.57\;f/cc$)) while boiler was the lowest (0.0015 f/cc($0.001{\sim}0.007\;f/cc$)). Based on this study, proper action needs to be taken as soon as possible to protect workers from the threat of asbestos.

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