LONG TERM UV-B RECORD KEEPING OF OUTDOOR WORKERS

第二阶段SBIR提案引入了一种创新方法， 准确、长期的太阳UVB辐射暴露记录保存。 的 基本的方法是开发一个低成本的UVB记录系统， 小型可邮寄卡片组件的形式。 本UVB监测仪/记录仪 卡将使用砷化镓光电二极管芯片/过滤器，电池， 微处理器和非易失性数据存储器来记录个人的 长期暴露于UVB辐射。 设想的卡用户包括 政府或私人公司雇员持续暴露于 工作日的阳光;武装部队人员，农业和 建筑工人和娱乐业雇员。 的方式 与核辐射照射监测系统类似， 记录卡在工作现场，并定期更换 的间隔 收到的卡片会通过邮件传送，重新校准， 并在中央存档设施中进行处理， 形成每个人的总暴露历史。 这些长期 暴露记录可用于识别风险增加的个体 由于过度暴露的条件，并在这样做，避免复杂的 医疗昂贵的法律的程序可能导致这样的 条件 建议的设备操作完全自动化， 不需要用户交互来启动数据收集。 拟议商业应用：制造业和农业 关注员工健康风险的企业以及相关的 法律的责任问题，可以承包这种长期的UVB监测， 服务按月收费。使用的其他UVB监测系统包括 用于辐射实验和其他相关研究的仪器 活动

This Phase II SBIR proposal introduces an innovative approach to highly accurate, long-term solar UVB radiation exposure record keeping. The basic approach is to develop a low cost UVB recorder system in the form of a small mail-able card assembly. This UVB monitor/recorder card will use a gallium-arsenide photodiode chip/filter, a battery, a microprocessor, and non-volatile data memory to log an individual's long-term exposure to UVB radiation. Envisioned card users include government or private corporation employees consistently exposed to sunlight during the workday; armed forces personnel, agricultural and construction workers, and recreation industry employees. In a manner similar to nuclear radiation exposure monitoring systems, users will wear the recorder card while on the job-site, and exchange it at regular intervals. The incoming cards are transferred in the mail, re-calibrated, and processed at a central archiving facility where data is concatenated to a form a history of each individual's total exposure. These long-term exposure records can be used to identify individual's at increased risk due to over-exposure conditions, and in doing so, avert the complex medical expensive legal procedures potentially resulting from such conditions. Proposed device operation is completely automated, and requires no user interaction to initiate data collection. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Manufacturing and agricultural businesses concerned about employee' health risks and the associated legal liability issues, can contract this long-term UVB monitoring as a service for a monthly fee. Other UVB monitoring system used include instrumentation for radiation experiments and other related research activities.