光電產業勞工砷暴露評估研究

Arsenic Exposure Assessment for Employees in Optoelectronic Industry

10.7005/JOSH.200906.0131

潘致弘(Chih-Hong Pan)；石東生(Tung-Sheng Shih)；陳秋蓉(Chiou-Jong Chen)；黃友利(Yeou-Lih Huang)

光電產業 ； 血中總砷 ； 尿中無機砷代謝物總和濃度 ； 空氣總砷 ； Optoelectronic industry ； Blood total arsenic concentration ； Total sum of urinary inorganic arsenic metabolites ； Total arsenic concentration in air

勞工安全衛生研究季刊

17卷2期（2009 / 06 / 01）

131 - 152

繁體中文

This study involved a health questionnaire survey of 121 employees of two optoelectronics companies who were exposed to arsenic in the workplace, along with 64 male employees in a control group, and was designed to determine the amount of arsenic in blood and urine as well as total arsenic in the workplace. There were no significant differences between the exposure group and the control group in terms of age, years of employment, education, smoking habits, or drinking habits, or whether the respondents had symptoms of hypertension, diabetes, asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic dermatitis, or kidney disease. The exposure group had significantly higher total blood arsenic concentrations in the blood and total inorganic arsenic metabolites in the urine than the control group (p＜0.05). Total arsenic concentrations in air samples were significantly correlated with As(V) in urine (p=0.014); there was no significant correlation, however, between total arsenic concentrations in the air and total arsenic concentrations in the blood, urinary trivalent arsenic, urinary inorganic arsenic, urinary monomethyl arsenate, urinary dimethyl arsenate, or urinary inorganic arsenic metabolites.

This study involved a health questionnaire survey of 121 employees of two optoelectronics companies who were exposed to arsenic in the workplace, along with 64 male employees in a control group, and was designed to determine the amount of arsenic in blood and urine as well as total arsenic in the workplace. There were no significant differences between the exposure group and the control group in terms of age, years of employment, education, smoking habits, or drinking habits, or whether the respondents had symptoms of hypertension, diabetes, asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic dermatitis, or kidney disease. The exposure group had significantly higher total blood arsenic concentrations in the blood and total inorganic arsenic metabolites in the urine than the control group (p＜0.05). Total arsenic concentrations in air samples were significantly correlated with As(V) in urine (p=0.014); there was no significant correlation, however, between total arsenic concentrations in the air and total arsenic concentrations in the blood, urinary trivalent arsenic, urinary inorganic arsenic, urinary monomethyl arsenate, urinary dimethyl arsenate, or urinary inorganic arsenic metabolites.