Prompt Imagine you are a member of your organization’s institutional review board (IRB) – the committee that is required to review proposed research studies, determine whether the studies’ protocols are consistent with ethical research practice, and if ethical, approve them for implementation. One of your assignments is to review a proposal from a researcher wanting to study the effectiveness of a new type of ventilation equipment in controlling airborne chemical exposures in nail salons. In this intervention research study, exposure of airborne chemical concentrations is monitored through personal breathing-zone sampling, a technique that requires participants to wear small air-sampling devices on their bodies throughout the workday. The planned intervention includes the installation of ventilation equipment in the salon that is designed to extract airborne chemicals and thus reduce overall exposure. The researcher aims to recruit 12 nail salons. Six of the salons are located in a low-income area, while the other six are located in high-income areas.

The researcher has proposed the research protocol as such:
• Nail salons will be recruited by contacting salon owners who will agree or disagree to participate in the research. If the owners agree to participate, all nail technician workers will be required to wear the air-sampling equipment during the workday for the duration of the study period, which is 5 days.
• Once salons have been recruited, baseline exposure monitoring will be conducted across all 12 participating salons. During exposure monitoring days, nail technicians will be required to increase the number of acrylic nail sculpting procedures so that researchers may gather data on potentially toxic exposures to chemicals used in this process.
• Once baseline data have been collected, ventilation equipment will be installed in six of the 12 nail salons: three salons in the low-income area and three salons from the high-income area. An incentive ($1,000) will be offered to these six salons to help pay for the cost of the ventilation equipment, which will cost a total of $10,000.
• Once ventilation equipment is installed, a final exposure monitoring will be conducted across all 12 participating salons. The effectiveness of the ventilation equipment will be evaluated by measuring any differences in airborne chemical exposures between baseline air-sampling and final air-sampling, and comparing these measurements in the six salons with the ventilation equipment and the six salons without the ventilation equipment.

Answer question 1 in approximately 200-300 words, and question 2 in approximately 250-350 words; do so with one or more complete sentences; use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation; and include reference citations in text and a References page in APA format.