Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 21/09/2020
2. EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT DATABASES
Database name
  ExpoSYN
Institute
  Utrecht University
Country
  Netherlands
Contact person
  Susan Peters
Email
  s.peters@uu.nl
References (citation)
  Peters S, Vermeulen R, Olsson AC, et al. Development of an exposure measurement database on five lung carcinogens (ExpoSYN) for quantitative retrospective occupational exposure assessment. Annals of Occupational Hygiene (2012) 56(1):70-9
Type of database
 

  • General

Type of data
 

  • Air monitoring

Level of data
 

  • Individual measurements

Occupational code
  Yes
Coding system
 

  • ISCO 1968

Industry code
  Yes
Industry coding system
 

  • ISIC rev 2 (1968)

Main categories
 

  • Dusts and Fibres
  • Metals and Metal Oxides
  • Other Chemicals

Fibres
 

  • Asbestos (any form of asbestos chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, etc. or asbestos-containing material)

Inorganic dusts
 

  • Quartz (quartz or crystalline silica containing dusts)

Choose Metals and Metals Oxides
 

  • Chromium (metallic chromium, Cr(iii), Cr(vi) and all compounds)
  • Nickel and all compounds

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
 

  • Benzo(a)pyrene
  • Other (specify)

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) | Specify: Other
  naphthalene
Region(s)
 

  • Region axis [specify region]

Specify region
 

  • Europe
  • North and Central America

Europe
 

  • Bulgaria
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Iceland
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom

North and Central America
 

  • Canada

Worker ID
  Yes
Location ID
  Yes
Work task
  No
PPE
  Yes
Ventilation
  Yes
Indoors/outdoors
  Yes
Unit of measurements
  Yes
Sampling duration
  Yes
Sampled fraction (e.g. respirable)
  Yes
Sampling medium (e.g. air, urine, etc)
  Not Applicable
Sampling device
  Yes
Analytical method
  Yes
Measurement strategy
  Yes
Measurement reason
  Yes
Limit of detection
  Yes
Relation with other databases
 

  • ExpoSYN is a compilation of many existing exposure databases, as well as measurements derived from the grey literature

Availability
 

  • Other

Availability | Other
  Data were collected and brought together for a specific project (SYNERGY)
Other remarks
  Although detailed auxiliary information wasrequested for collection, not all such information was available for each data point.