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Workshop Discussions
Summary of questions appropriate
for discussion in the Workshop Session“Measuring and Predicting Exposure”
- 1. Is this outline of Opportunities
for Effective Action a useful guide for the discussion in this Workshop
Session? What are some of the most significant ways in which it can
be improved?
2. From the Opportunity for Effective Action by Individuals/Employers/Supervisors/Insurers/Site
Owners maintaining a safe and healthful site:
a. Are there checklists or other tools (some may be industry-, occupation-,
task- or chemical-specific) to guide individuals in identifying exposures
to chemicals by task? List at I.B.2.a.i …
b. Are there checklists or other tools (some may be industry-, occupation-,
task- or chemical-specific) to guide individuals in rating the intensity
of each exposure? List at I.B.2.b.i …
3. From the Opportunity for Manufacturers/Distributors to take effective
actions to maintain product stewardship: (No separate questions have
been identified, yet.)
4. From the Opportunity for Clinicians to take effective action to evaluate
and promote the health of individuals or populations: (No separate questions
have been identified, yet.)
5. From the Opportunity for National or International Bodies to take
effective action by outlining technical requirements or recommendations:
a. Are there published questionnaires, check-lists, data sheets or
other tools available to aid in the collection of information about
exposure potential by professionals? List at IV.B.2.a.i …
b. Are there published protocols for collecting data on surface contamination,
skin contamination (wiping, washing, tape-stripping) or contamination
of surrogate skin (pads, clothing) coupled with exposed skin area
and exposure duration information? List at IV.B.2.b.i …
c. Are there published protocols for collecting biomonitoring data
to characterize skin exposure? List at IV.B.2.c.i …
d. Are the current exposure monitoring methods so cumbersome and expensive
to use and so difficult to interpret that routine dermal exposure
measurements should not be customarily recommended as part of an exposure
control program?
e. Are there standardizations/simplifications that might make the
Dermal Occupational Exposure Limit approach more feasible?
6. Within the scope of this Workshop Session, what is the relative importance
of:
a. doing a better job of applying existing data using existing decision-making
procedures,
b. obtaining new data using accepted data-gathering protocols,
c. developing better data-gathering protocols and
d. developing better decision-making procedures
in order to improve the outputs from each step of an Opportunity for
Effective Action?
7. What research is likely to have the most impact on improving the
ability of various actors to take effective actions?
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