UNCERTAINTY OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH MEASUREMENTS

Edi Kulderknup

Abstract

Occupational health measurements have considerable importance to safeguard the health of personnel in the working environment. Assurance of healthy conditions is prescribed in legal acts and if those requirements are not fulfilled can entrepreneur have considerable economical losses trough the authorities sanctions and charges for the damaged personnel. To have correct conformity estimation against legal limit values evaluator must have the reliable result of measurement and the truthful uncertainty estimation. Uncertainty estimation of occupational health measurements have some special particularities. Sound way to assure the best measurement capability is the interlaboratory comparison.

Keywords

occupational health measurements, uncertainty, proficiency testing

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IMEKO TC

TC7 - Measurement Science

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