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Robert F. Herrick, MS, SD
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Avenue Boston , MA
Ph: 617-384-8803
Email: herrick@hohp.harvard.edu
Abstract:
Harvard's activities to be carried out as part of the TAPs project are to facilitate evidence-based selection of controls; to evaluate tool/task specific exposures in standardized work environments or laboratory conditions; and to measure the effectiveness of engineering controls for reducing exposures to silica, hexavalent chromium, manganese, mixed particulates. Harvard investigators will participate in exposure monitoring using T-BEAM survey methods. Activities will include the design and implementation of field studies to test the hypotheses that construction workers are exposed to hazardous agents in excess of legal and recommended exposure limits; and exposure data can be collected and used in such a way as to evaluate and communicate the need for efficacy of engineering controls.
Harvard investigators will also continue to serve as active participants in the Engineering Work Practice Controls Work Group to help coordinate, shape and evaluate cooperative research efforts between CPWR/NIOSH and other researchers involved in applied technology research.
These efforts will be carried out by investigators from Harvard University , in collaboration with CPWR, and key stakeholders, including labor and management as well as NIOSH researchers. Dr. Robert Herrick, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) will assist in exposure assessment and control activities and assist in coordination of engineering controls technology research.
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