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Empirical Analysis of Dust Health Impacts on Construction Workers Considering Work Types

Autor(en): ORCID
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Medium: Fachartikel
Sprache(n): Englisch
Veröffentlicht in: Buildings, , n. 8, v. 12
Seite(n): 1137
DOI: 10.3390/buildings12081137
Abstrakt:

In the construction industry, workers are exposed to hazardous emissions, such as dust, and various diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which affect workers. There is, however, a lack of studies that evaluate the dust that workers are exposed to, taking into account different factors of dust. Therefore, this study aims to estimate the amount of dust construction workers are exposed to by considering different factors of dust emission and to assess the health and economic impact of dust emissions. This study is conducted in three steps: (1) scope definition, (2) definition of worker dust exposure, and (3) health impact assessment. As a result, dust concentrations from the energy used, the atmosphere, and during construction activities were 1.01 × 10−5 µg/m³, 37.50 µg/m³, and 1.33 × 104 µg/m³ respectively. Earthwork had the highest dust concentration of 3.85 × 103 µg/m³. The total added number of disability-adjusted life years (DALY) of workers was 0.0542a with an economic cost of $13,691.00. The contributions of this study are the accurate assessment of the amount of dust workers are exposed to and the development of policies to help compensate construction workers suffering from dust emission-related diseases.

Copyright: © 2022 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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