• Project number: F 2566
• Institution: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA)
• Status: Completed Project

Description:

For the protection of employees from health hazards posed by inhalable dust, potential effects of the particles and fibres contained need to be assessed. This requires determining their size and chemical composition. This in turn means the individual characterisation of many dust particles using microscopic analysis methods, which generates large amounts of data. As these data form the foundation for reliable substance identification, the FAMOSH database was designed, developed and made available online as part of a project funded by the BMAS.

The acronym FAMOSH stands for Fibre and Advanced Materials Occupational Safety and Health and is intended to highlight the benefits of publicly available material and exposure science data on dusts for occupational health and safety. The database provides information on monitoring projects, materials, samples, evaluation procedures, measurement parameters and detailed analysis results. The latter include images of air sampling filters, individual particle images, particle spectra and substance classifications. The data is subject to a rights and roles concept, which allows the visibility of proprietary data to other users to be controlled in a finely granular manner. In addition, the database will also contribute to the further development and quality assurance of artificial intelligence (AI) methods in the areas of image processing and composition analysis, as it provides not only training data but also AI models. These models can be adapted to varying tasks via a web interface using training data, which can be selected by their metadata, even by users without programming knowledge. The database can be accessed at https://famosh.eu both via website and software interface and can be filled using microscope automation software, such as that being developed as part of the F 2529 project.