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Issues in Exposure Assessment
 | Sufficiency - How much monitoring is required for future needs?
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| Sample Selection - Which workers or conditions require sampling?
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| Reliability - Representative? Repeatable? Uniformity?
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| Recordkeeping - Samples contain necessary data for future questions?
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| Exposure Control - Samples identify sources, worker interaction?
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| Utility - Information useful for professionals, management & workers?
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| Cost Effectiveness - Information provides return on investment?
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Notes:
In selecting an exposure assessment strategy, there are several issues that could be considered:
| Sufficiency - How much monitoring is required
| To represent the conditions properly
| To ensure we have included the right people
| For future needs - such as building worker exposure histories
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| Sample Selection - Which workers or conditions should be sampled to meet these needs.
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| Reliability - What assurances do we have that the exposure records are accurate, representative and repeatable? How do we avoid artifact?
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| Recordkeeping - Do the samples contain necessary information for future situations that may arise?
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| Exposure Control - Is the protocol designed to identify sources and worker interaction? Will it help in our engineering program?
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| Utility - Does the sampling method promote meaningful information useful for engineers, medical/safety personnel, management & workers?
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| Cost Effectiveness - Given the desired level of reliability, precision and documentation what is the most effective way to meet those needs? |
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