Air Sampling Programs Detect Fumes and Asbestos

Read the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) report about the strategy for sampling fumes in mines. Miners are routinely exposed to dangerous carcinogens such as asbestos.

Personal exposure sampling for fumes requires both full-shift and short-term sampling. If full-shift sampling is interrupted by the short-term sampling, the contaminant amounts determined by analysis of the full-shift sample and each short-term sample must be added to obtain the full-shift exposure for each contaminant.

In all cases, whether or not short-term sampling interrupts the full-shift sampling, each short-term sample should be analyzed and evaluated to determine if exposure exceeds a ceiling limit or short-term limit for specific contaminants.

Courtesy of MSHA

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