This article describes work leading to a microfabricated preconcentrator-focuser (μPCF) designed for integration into a wearable microfabricated gas chromatograph (μGC) for monitoring workplace exposures to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) ranging in vapor pressure from ∼0.03 to 13 kPa at concentrations near their respective Threshold Limit Values.
But the less foreign it is, the less volatile — and the more successful — a workplace will be.
The workplace has become increasingly volatile, intercultural and multilingual in the Information Age, presenting greater than ever communication challenges to employees.
Workplace relationships can be volatile whether they are clandestine or open.
During three consecutive working days, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds were sampled in workplace air of 34 sewage and 30 office workers, as indicators of airborne exposure.
This causes contamination of the workplace with variable amounts of volatile agent.
In the volatile and ambiguous environments of today's workplaces, where action and results are neither linear nor guaranteed, it's crucial that organizations encourage risks that may result in failure and provide safe spaces to learn from it.
Workplace contamination by the use of volatile anesthetic agents should be kept to a minimum if a potential health hazard is to be minimised.
Other microscale sensors, including personal dosimeters, are being used to monitor levels of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, pesticides, and PAHs in the workplace, household, and personal environment.
Chemosensory active volatile organic compounds occur in the breathing air at many workplaces and it has been assumed that they are potent to impair workers' cognitive performance; however, the nature of this relationship is not understood.
