GuLF DREAM: A Model to Estimate Dermal Exposure Among Oil Spill Response and Clean-up Workers.

ABSTRACT: Tens of thousands of individuals performed oil spill response and clean-up (OSRC) activities following the 'Deepwater Horizon' oil drilling rig explosion in 2010. Many were exposed to oil residues and dispersants. The US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences assembled a cohort of nearly 33 000 workers to investigate potential adverse health effects of oil spill exposures. Estimates of dermal and inhalation exposure are required for those individuals. Ambient breathing-zone measurements taken at the time of the spill were used to estimate inhalation exposures for participants in the GuLF STUDY (Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study), but no dermal measurements were collected. Consequently, a modelling approach was used to estimate dermal exposures. We sought to modify DREAM (DeRmal E

SUBMITTER: Gorman Ng M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8989037 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature