{"id":18382,"date":"2016-03-28T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=18382"},"modified":"2016-03-28T13:55:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T19:55:22","slug":"assessing-daily-exposure-risk-of-pig-barn-workers-to-airborne-contaminants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/assessing-daily-exposure-risk-of-pig-barn-workers-to-airborne-contaminants\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Daily Exposure Risk of Pig Barn Workers to Airborne Contaminants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extended exposure of pig barn workers\u00a0to airborne contaminants, particularly\u00a0dust and gases (ammonia and hydrogen\u00a0sulphide) is primarily associated with increased\u00a0risk of developing respiratory symptoms and<br \/>\nother health problems (Senthilselvan et al.,\u00a02007; Dosman et al., 2004). Various researchers\u00a0have comprehensively investigated the work\u00a0environment in pig barns and the associated\u00a0effects on the health of barn workers. However,<br \/>\nmost of these studies focused on documenting the\u00a0health symptoms and rarely involved characterization\u00a0of occupational exposure environments in\u00a0intensive livestock operation. Hence, to protect\u00a0the health and safety of barn workers, there is\u00a0a need to gain more understanding of the work\u00a0environment in barns and the associated worker<br \/>\nexposure risks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Environmental-Assessment-of-Workers.pdf\" rel=\"\">Environmental Assessment of Workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extended exposure of pig barn workers\u00a0to airborne contaminants, particularly\u00a0dust and gases (ammonia and hydrogen\u00a0sulphide) is primarily associated with increased\u00a0risk of developing respiratory symptoms and other health problems (Senthilselvan et al.,\u00a02007; Dosman et al., 2004). Various researchers\u00a0have comprehensively investigated the work\u00a0environment in pig barns and the associated\u00a0effects on the health of barn workers. However, most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-insight-articles","category-prairie-swine-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18384,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382\/revisions\/18384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}