Standardization of data from hazard sensors: a new challenge and opportunity in occupational hygiene
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36125/ijoehy.v13i3.438Keywords:
Industrial hygiene; Occupational exposure; Occupational safety and health; Harmonization; SensorsAbstract
Data are a fundamental, if not the most important, component of any field of science, theoretical and applied. This is certainly true for occupational or industrial hygiene.
While the standardization of data might be considered a trivial aspect, it is a critical step. Across
the world, occupational safety and health professionals face the challenge of: (i) what occupational exposure data to
collect and (ii) how best to collect these data, particularly given new and improving technologies behind sampling
instrumentation and data analytics.
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