Emission of respirable dust from stone quarrying, potential health effects, and its management

Ambastha, Saurav Kumar; Haritash, A. K.

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-16079-4

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Of the analysed studies, only one [43] was conducted in a construction-site environment; all other studies concerned mines or quarry sites. The exploited materials were, from the most commonly to least commonly exploited: coal [6,22,[30][31][32]41,44,52,56], iron [25,42], limestone [28,53], aggregates [24,51], taconite [47], granite [46], sandstone [55], copper [45], gold [48], platinum [54], and manganese [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the contrary, the measures taken of truck operators, excavator operators, and dozer operators, besides not being statistically different, showed that working inside cabins with air-conditioning systems decreases exposure to dust [50]. Despite the fact that this relation was not directly assessed, one of the studies reported that workers engaged in crushing activities, loading crushed material and drilling, are more vulnerable to such exposure [55].…”

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“…Eight selected studies analysed specific-site (location) dust concentrations [6,41,42,45,48,[54][55][56]. Drilling is one of the most hazardous activities when considering exposure to dust [41].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Only 9 to 30% of alveolic particles settle within a (vertical) distance of between 18 m and 20 m, compared to 19% to 37% of thoracic and 23% to 39% of inhalable particles. Another study concluded that smaller particles can travel great distances, even affecting the populations in the vicinity of mines [55].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Despite the experimental protocol of each paper, only 15 out of the 24 papers referred to dust-particle size [6,22,24,25,28,31,[43][44][45]48,49,51,52,55,56]. The remaining papers did not specify this parameter, despite mentioning "respirable dust" [41,47,53], "respirable and inhalable" [42,54], or just "dust" [32,50].…”

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Occupational Exposure to Mineral Dust in Mining and Earthmoving Works: A Scoping Review

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Branco

Rodrigues

et al. 2022

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Anthropogenic activity is related to several environmental imbalances, including dust. Particulate matter can also hinder humans with numerous health consequences, such as asthma, cancer, and pneumoconiosis. With a particular focus on mineral dust, this review is intended to determine in which circumstances occupational exposure occurs in the mining and earthmoving industries. Research followed the guidelines provided by the preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols and its extension for scoping reviews. Of the 8993 records identified, only 24 passed both exclusion and inclusion criteria. Within the pool of results, it was possible to identify the following variables related to dust exposure: job-related (activity, job category, and site), engineering (equipment, transport system), technical (distance), and physical (season and weather) variables. Due to the significant variance in protocol settings, it was challenging to perform a general analysis, resulting in a study-by-study approach. The most significant conclusion of this study is not related to the setting of occupational exposure, although it derives from it. The necessity of adopting standard procedures for data collection, independent of research objective, was demonstrated within the context of occupational exposure to mineral dust.

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