Kenny Lee
Health and Safety Laboratory, Broad Lane, Sheffield S7 1LB.
Ann Occup Hyg. 2003 Aug;47(6):437-40. doi: 10.1093/annhyg/meg049.
In order to understand and control the risks presented by inhalation of dust at work, research over many years has been focused on understanding how dust present in the air enters the human nose and mouth during the act of breathing. For health-related dust exposure monitoring, sampling devices are needed that collect the same 'inhalable fraction' of dust as the human head. Mark and Vincent's 1986 paper presented a study that has contributed more than any other to the practical realization of this inhalable dust concept. The authors developed a simple solution--the IOM personal inhalable dust sampler--to what we now know is an extremely complex problem. Although scientific understanding has grown in the years since this paper was published, very few other dust sampling instruments have emerged as being able to meet both the scientific criteria and the practical need for inhalable dust measurement. Both authors have continued to build on this work and have made further contributions to our theoretical and practical understanding in this field.
为了了解和控制工作中吸入粉尘所带来的风险，多年来的研究一直聚焦于弄清楚空气中的粉尘在呼吸过程中是如何进入人体口鼻的。对于与健康相关的粉尘暴露监测，需要能够收集与人体头部相同“可吸入部分”粉尘的采样设备。马克和文森特1986年发表的论文所阐述的一项研究，对这一可吸入粉尘概念的实际应用起到了比其他任何研究都更大的推动作用。作者针对我们现在所知的一个极其复杂的问题，提出了一个简单的解决方案——IOM个人可吸入粉尘采样器。自这篇论文发表后的这些年里，尽管科学认识有所增长，但几乎没有其他粉尘采样仪器能够同时满足可吸入粉尘测量的科学标准和实际需求。两位作者都在此项工作的基础上继续开展研究，并在该领域的理论和实际理解方面做出了进一步贡献。
