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Journal Article
Risk assessment of vascular disorders by a supplementary hand–arm vascular weighting of hand-transmitted vibration
2019
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PurposeTo provide an updated epidemiological validation for a supplementary method for assessing the risk of vascular disorders from hand-transmitted vibration.MethodsThe occurrence of vibration-induced white finger (VWF) in the vibration-exposed workers of the Italian cohort of the EU VIBRISKS study was related to measures of daily vibration exposure expressed in terms of r.m.s. acceleration magnitude normalised to an 8-h day, frequency weighted according to either the frequency weighting Wh defined in international standard ISO 5349-1:2001 [Ah(8) in ms− 2] or the hand–arm vascular frequency weighting Wp proposed in the ISO technical report (TR) 18570:2017 [Ap(8) in ms− 2]. To estimate a threshold value for vascular hand–arm vibration risk, the Wp-weighted vibration exposure value Ep,d (in ms− 1.5) was calculated according to the ISO/TR document. The difference in the predictions of VWF between the exposure measures calculated with the frequency weightings Wh or Wp was investigated by means of logistic modelling.ResultsMeasures of daily vibration exposure constructed with the frequency weighting Wp [Ap(8) and Ep,d], which gives more importance to intermediate- and high-frequency vibration, were better predictors of the occurrence of VWF in the vibration-exposed workers than the metric derived from the conventional ISO frequency weighting Wh [Ah(8)]. There was some epidemiological evidence for a threshold value of Ep,d for the onset of VWF in the vibration-exposed workers.ConclusionsMeasures of daily vibration exposure evaluated with the vascular weighting Wp performed better for the predictions of VWF than those obtained with the frequency weighting Wh recommended in ISO 5349-1.
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Springer Nature B.V
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