Dutch exposure assessment model

This model describes potential exposures, which may then be modified with exposure reduction factors. The model contains no data on reduction factors. In the Dutch risk assessment for registration purposes, a factor of 10 may be proposed to account for personal protective measures for each relevant body part, or for inhalation. This presumes adequate personal behaviour and hygiene on the part of the worker. 

UK-POEM UK PREDICTIVE OPERATOR EXPOSURE MODEL General Description 183 Formulations and Use Scenarios 183 Use in Risk Assessment 184 Exposure Reduction Measures 186 Model Updates 186 Comments on the Model 186 DUTCH MODEL 187 General Description 187 Formulations and Use Scenarios 187 Use in Risk Assessment 188 Exposure Reduction Measures 189 Model Updates 189 Comments on the Model 189 EUROPOEM DATABASE 189 General Description 189 Formulations and Use Scenarios 190 Use in Risk Assessment 192 Exposure Reduction Measures 194 Model Updates 194 Comments on the Model 194... 

The purpose of this paper is to present the quantification of the risk rates, that is the probability per unit of time (hour) for each and every of the 63 hazards. The paper is organised as follows Section 2 outlines the modelling of the arrival of occupational accidents as a Poisson random process and briefly describes the procedure followed for identifying the number of accidents and the exposure of the Dutch working population to the occupational hazards during a given period of time. With these two sets of data point estimates of the risk rates are obtained. Section 3 presents the assessment of the uncertainties associated with this estimation following a Bayesian approach. Finally Section 4 discusses the obtained results. 

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