Warehouse Workers Affected By Battery Charging Operations
Warehouse Workers Affected By Battery Charging Operations
2 PagesWAREHOUSE WORKERS AFFECTED BY BATTERY CHARGING OPERATIONS P-TRAKTM ULTRAFINE PARTICLE COUNTER CASE STUDY #11 Background At a manufacturing plant, several workers in the shipping warehouse complained of sore eyes and throats. The source of these complaints was a mystery. The complaints did not make sense because chemicals were not used in the facility and all forklifts were electrically operated. Problem Assessment Management requested an investigation into ultrafine particle levels to better understand conditions in the warehouse and, hopefully, to locate the source of the complaints. Also known as UFPs, ultrafine particles are less than 0.1 micrometer in diameter. The investigator relied on a P-TrakTM Ultrafine Particle Counter to measure UFPs in real t
