Exposure to Diesel Exhaust – What is the Health Risk? A presentation that introduces a new calculator created by OHCOW.
Kevin Hedges and John Oudyk, Occupational Hygienists,
Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW)
Note: Electronic copies of the diesel calculator in this presentation are available by contacting John or Kevin. Instructions will be provided on the proper use of the calculator along with important limitations of its use.
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95% Confidence Interval (CI) is a range of values (upper and lower) that you can be 95% certain contains the true mean of the population.
The relative risk is a comparison of the risk of getting lung cancer for those exposed to diesel exhaust compared to those who have never been exposed to diesel exhaust – for example, if the relative risk is 1.5, it means that for the cumulative diesel exhaust exposure entered into the calculator, the risk associated with that exposure is 1.5 times higher than the background risk of lung cancer for those who have not been occupationally exposed to diesel exhaust.
Test, test, test
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