Fibrous material are outside the applicability domain of the most widely used exposure assessment tools (i.e. Advanced Reach Tool):are there alternative solutions for asbestos occupational exposure estimations?
The aim is to obtain an exposure estimate (or at least a relative ranking of expure levels) in the absence of measurements (past exposures / retrospective assessment), but starting from well-characterized exposure scenarios (e.g., localized controls, dispersion, enclosure, segregation...)
A JEM is the simplest available tool you can use to design scenarios relating to asbestos exposures and the one mentioned by Leigh is certainly an excellent one.
Another useful JEM is the "Amyant" on-line database published some years ago by the Italian National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL).
An excellent methodological approach to JEMs is in Nieuwenhuijsen MJ "Exposure assessment in occupational and environmental epidemiology" Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
About asbestos exposures (mainly, bur not solely, from occupational circumstances) in Italy, you wil find a lot of information in the five reports of the National Registry of Mesotheliomas (ReNaM).
If your interest is about environemntal exposures to asbestos in Italy, have a look to the attached papers by Chiappino, Sebastien and Todaro, 1991 and from Casali et al 2015.
If you need more detailed clues, please tell me something about the specific aim of your research.
Dear Andrea Spinazzé
Hello,
You can find useful tools for estimation of human exposure to environmental agents (including asbestos) even in the absence of quantitative exposure assessment data, in a good published book by AIHA. You will find a good strategy for assessing and managing human exposure especially in occupational settings.
Mulhausen, J. R., and J. Damiano.A Strategy for Assessing and Managing Occupational
Exposures, 2nd ed. Fairfax, VA: AIHA, 1998.
Or the third edition of it:
William H. Bullock and Joselito S. Ignacio, 3nd ed. Fairfax, VA: AIHA, 2006.
Hoping this will be helpful,
Esmaeel