ENVH 555 Spring 09
Instrumental Methods for Industrial Hygiene Measurement: Laboratory

Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

Instructor: Chris Simpson
Email: simpson1@u.washington.edu

Office: F-226C HSB
Office Hours: by appointment
Telephone: 206-543-3222


Class meeting times and place: Mon/Wed 12:30pm-4:20pm Room T-568

Class Website: http://courses.washington.edu/envh555

Instructors:
Christopher Simpson
Office: F226C
Phone: 543-3222
Email: simpson1@u.washington.edu

Michael Morgan
Office: F-225B
Phone: 685-3221
Email: mmorgan@u.washington.edu


Lee Monteith
Phone: 543-3261
Email: lemonte@u.washington.edu

Teaching assistant:
Jake Braden
Office: F226
Email: snakebraden@hotmail.com


Schedule
Course hours are on Monday and Wednesday, 12:30 - 4:30. The attached schedule of the experiments gives more information about the types of sampling and analysis that will be covered in each experiment.

References
The course text for ENVH 555 is the Lab Manual. Additional readings may be assigned for specific lab experiments, and those are noted in the lab guide for each experiment. Those students who have not taken ENVH 553 should ask about additional reference material. Suggested references are:

Ramachandran, G., Occupational Exposure Assessment for Air contaminants, CRC Press, Boca Raton FL
McDermott, H.J., Air monitoring for toxic exposures, 2nd Ed. John Wiley and sons, Hoboken, NJ

Cohen, BS and McCammon, CS Jr., eds. Air Sampling Instruments, 9th edition. Cincinnati: ACGIH, 2001. (Reserve Copy in the Department Library)
Methods of Air Sampling and Analysis, APHA ISC, Lodge, Third Ed., 1989.
NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods (NMAM), Online at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nmam/
0500--Nuisance Dust
0600--Respirable Dust
7400--Sampling and Analysis of Fibers in air
3500--Formaldehyde
7082--Lead
7030--Zinc
1500—Hydrocarbons
9002--Bulk Asbestos Method
Perkins, J. Modern Industrial Hygiene, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY(1997).
OSHA Analytical Methods Manual, Pt 1. Organic substances, Vol. 1-4 ('90-93);
Pt. 2, Inorganic substances, Vol. 1 & 2 ('91)
The Occupational Environment: Its Evaluation and Control, Edited by S.R.DiNardi,' AIHA Press, 1998.
Copies of important readings from the references should be on reserve in the Environmental Health Library (F453), the Laboratory (T564) or in Room F226, HSB.

Send mail to: simpson1@u.washington.edu
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