A comparison of performance of two personal sampling heads for cotton dust

摘要

Cotton dust sampling for monitoring worker exposure was traditionally performed by work area sampling. A change to an exposure limit based on personal sampling has recently been agreed. The choice of sampling head for personal monitoring exposure was hampered by the use of Two different sampling heads in the major epidemiological studies of textile workers which had Incorporated personal sampling techniques. The purpose of this study was to compared the results Of exposure measurements using these two sampling heads. This study has examined the performance of the two sampling heads, by performing dual Sampling on cotton operatives during normal working activities.