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Occupational exposure to particles during hotel´s rooms cleaning

dc.contributor.authorCostinha, Inês
dc.contributor.authorSimões, Sofia
dc.contributor.authorFigueiredo, Filipa
dc.contributor.authorViegas, Susana
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-08T12:09:20Z
dc.date.available2016-07-08T12:09:20Z
dc.date.issued2016-02
dc.description.abstractBackground: The majority of studies investigated ambient particles, although in most industrialized countries people spend most of their time indoors and significant emissions of fine and ultrafine particles leading to human exposure are caused by various indoor tasks, including cleaning tasks. Objective: To characterize the occupational exposure to particles during cleaning of hotel's rooms. Methodology: Measurements of mass concentration and particle number concentration were performed before and during cleaning tasks in two rooms with different floor types (wood and carpet) with the equipment Lighthouse, model 3016 IAQ. Results: Considering mass concentration, particles with higher were responsable for higher leves of contamination, particularly PM5.0 and PM10.0. However, considering the particle number concentration, the smaller particle size obtained the higher values. Conclusion: It was observed higher number of particles of the smaller size in all tasks, which is associated with worse health effects. It was observed that the room with wood in the floor has lower values when compared to the room with carpet. The tasks with greater exposure were the 'vacuuming' and 'clean up powder'.pt_PT
dc.identifier.citationCostinha I, Simões S, Figueiredo F, Viegas S. Occupational exposure to particles during hotel´s rooms cleaning. In: Arezes et al, editors. Proceedings book of the International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene – SHO2016. Guimarães: SPOSHO; 2016. p. 52-4.pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn9789899820364
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/6311
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSPOSHOpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectOccupational exposurept_PT
dc.subjectHotel roomspt_PT
dc.subjectCleaning activitypt_PT
dc.subjectCarpet floorpt_PT
dc.subjectWood floorpt_PT
dc.titleOccupational exposure to particles during hotel´s rooms cleaningpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceGuimarãespt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage54pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage52pt_PT
person.familyNameViegas
person.givenNameSusana
person.identifier248817
person.identifier.ciencia-idA919-7318-63DC
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-1015-8760
person.identifier.ridI-4053-2012
person.identifier.scopus-author-id35270591500
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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