IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 2061: Occupational Health Risk Assessment in the Electronics Industry in China Based on the Occupational Classification Method and EPA Model

IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 2061: Occupational Health Risk Assessment in the Electronics Industry in China Based on the Occupational Classification Method and EPA Model International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph15102061 Authors: Ying Cai Fei Li Jingdong Zhang Zixian Wu The awareness of occupational health risk management in the electronics industry is weak in China, and many Chinese occupational health management regulations have not been effectively implemented. China’s current occupational hazards classification method and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inhalation risk assessment model recognized internationally were used to perform health risk assessments for a chip manufacturing company in the electronics industry in order to determine the existing problems and put forward the optimization proposals of the occupational hazards classification method in China. The results showed that the detected concentrations of toxic and harmful chemicals in all testing points did not exceed the occupational health exposure limits in China. According to the EPA inhalation risk assessment model, the highest values of non-carcinogenic risks of ammonia, chlorine, fluoride, sulfuric acid, hydrogen chloride, ethylene glycol, phosphine, boron trifluoride, isopropanol, benzene, and xylene were 5.10, 67.12, 1.71, 45.98, 1.83, 1.43, 160.35, 46.56, 2.52, 5.55, and 5.37, respectively, which means workers in electronic chip...
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