Professional Development for Health & Safety Experts

CIH Question 12/17/2020 – Statistics

During an industrial hygiene survey, an industrial hygienist (IH) collects multiple

samples for hexavalent chromium, or Cr(VI). The IH would like to be 95% confident that
the exposures are below the TLV (200 pg/m3). The duration of each sample was 480
minutes. What is the lower confidence limit for these exposures?

65 pg/m3
178 pg/m3
502 pg/m3

A. 0.26
B. 0.83
C. 0.98
D. 1.41

(Solution on next page)

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Solution:

Step 1: Calculate the time-weighted average.

𝐶𝑇 𝐶𝑇 𝐶𝑇
𝑇𝑊𝐴
𝑇 𝑇 𝑇

65 ∗ 480 178 ∗ 480 503 ∗ 480 358,080

𝑇𝑊𝐴 248.7 𝑝𝑔/𝑚
480 480 480 1440

Step 2: Calculate the lower confidence limit.

𝐶 𝑆𝐴𝐸 𝑇 𝐶 𝑇 𝐶 𝑇 𝐶
𝐿𝐶𝐿
𝑇𝐿𝑉 𝑇𝐿𝑉 𝑇 𝑇 𝑇

248.7 0.833√480 ∗ 65 480 ∗ 178 480 ∗ 503

𝐿𝐶𝐿
200 200 480 480 480

248.7 0.833√480 ∗ 65 480 ∗ 178 480 ∗ 503

𝐿𝐶𝐿
200 200 480 480 480

0.833√8,273,917,009 0.833 90961 75,770

𝐿𝐶𝐿 1.24 1.24 1.24 0.98
200 1440 288,000 288,000

The correct solution is C.

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