American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®), your industrial hygiene, environmental, occupational health and safety resource that advances worker health and safety and offers books, conferences, and education and training courses.

Site MapContact UsFAQsHome


Search  
Advanced

AboutProductsMembershipEducationTLV/BEI ResourcesFoundationResources
Sign up for the ACGIH.ORG Mailing List

Products


Continuing Education — "The Action Level!®"

VOLUME 9(9), September 2012
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene


Provide FULL NAME and EMAIL information below, then answer the questions and click "Submit".

Full Name:
E-Mail:

CASE STUDIES:

Health Care Workers' Mobile Phones: A Potential Cause of Microbial Cross-Contamination Between Hospitals and Community
Cemal Ustun and Mustafa Cihangirogl

1. According to this article health care workers' mobile phones
    may facilitate microbial cross-contamination. True or
    False?

True
False
2. The rate of microbial contamination of health care worker
    mobile phones is 97.8%. True or False?
True
False
Field Application of the Nanoparticle Emission Assessment Technique (NEAT): Task-Based Air Monitoring During the Processing of Engineered Nanomaterials (Enms) at Four Facilities
M. Methner, C. Beaucham, C. Crawford, L. Hodson and C. Geraci

3. At Facility 2, the task of removing product from a grinder
    with the ventilation system off resulted in the lowest particle
    number concentration measured near the grinder (at source).
    True or False?

True
False
4. The counting efficiency of an OPC instrument is highest
    in the 300–500 nm particle size range. True or False?
True
False
Incidence of Percutaneous Injuries and Non-Reporting Rates Among First Aid Responders in Taiwan
Francis Fu-Sheng Wu, Mei-Wen Wu, Yung-Hua Chou, Ming-Hui Ting and Robert Siebers

5. What was the main reason for not reporting percutaneous
    injuries by emergency medical technicians in Taiwan?

a. Too embarrassed to report it
b. That reporting was not mandatory
c. That the reporting process was too complicated
6. Which emergency medical technicians in Taiwan were
    at greater risk of experiencing percutaneous injuries?
a. Older and more experienced emergency
          medical technicians
b. Younger and less experienced emergency
          medical technicians
c. Older but less experienced emergency
          medical technicians
Variation in Penetration of Sub-Micrometric Particles Through Electrostatic Filtering Facepieces During the Exposure to Paraffin Oil Aerosol
Carmela Plebani, Stefano Listrani, Giovanna Tranfo and Francesca Tombolini

7. Monodisperse DEHS penetration through electrostatic
    filtering facepieces increases, for all the analyzed aerosol
    sizes, when oil paraffin is loaded. True or False?

True
False
8. A neutralized aerosol contains charged particles. The mean
    charge on each particle increases with the particle diameter.
    True or False?
True
False

Be sure FULL NAME and EMAIL information are provided at the top of this page before submitting your answers.


Deadline for answers is September 30, 2012.

Answers will be available online at
http://www.acgih.org/products/joeh/alanswers.htm
on October 10, 2012.

 
MEMBERS ONLY: Link to FREE Online Access to JOEH

MEMBERS ONLY: Link to Applied Archives

Register for "The Action Level!®"

Answer "The Action Level!®" Questions

View "The Action Level!®" Answers

JOEH Feedback Form

JOEH Helpline Info

Submit an Article

 

Last update on 08/15/2012. Questions or problems? Please contact us. © 2013 American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, 1330 Kemper Meadow Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45240, 513-742-2020. ACGIH® and related marks are marks of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. All Rights Reserved. Terms of Access. ACGIH® Privacy Policy. Site Map.