NIOSH regulation News
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Preventing Exposures to Vinyl Chloride and Other Occupational Chemical Hazards in Puerto Rico
Vinyl chloride is an important industrial chemical that is produced in large quantities as a chemical intermediate for use in manufacturing other products. This includes polyvinyl chloride or PVC as it is commonly known. PVC is used to make a wide variety of plastic products, including pipes, wire and cable coatings, and packaging materials. While this chemical compound is important for ...
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Protecting Building Occupants, Workers and Children from Lead Hazards
Lead is a toxic metal and the dangers of exposure have been known for years. Despite this, some people are still being exposed to unsafe levels of lead in their homes, schools and in the workplace. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) notes that it does not matter if a person breathes-in, swallows or absorbs lead particles, the health effects are the same; however, ...
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Protecting Workers and Building Occupants in Puerto Rico from Lead Hazards
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) reports that it does not matter if a person breathes-in, swallows or absorbs lead particles, the health effects are the same; however, the body absorbs higher levels of lead when it is breathed-in. The agency lists some of the differences and similarities between the health effects of short-term overexposure and prolonged ...
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Pumps Vs Real Time Measurements; no time like the present
Hands up to all those who can remember a time before the personal air sampler (PAS)? Not many I guess, but then they only do commerically date back to the early 1960's in Europe and the US, at a time when the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) only had a few hundred members. The history of personal air sampling instrumentation The personal sampling pump was developed under ...
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ASTM D7201 - 06(2011) standard practice for sampling and counting airborne fibers, including asbestos fibers, in the workplace, by phase contrast microscopy (with an Option of Transmission Electron Microscopy)
Users of this practice must determine for themselves whether the practices described meet the requirements of local or national authorities regulating asbestos or other fibrous hazards. Variations of this practice have been described by the Asbestos Research Council in Great Britain (8), the Asbestos International Association (AIA) RTM 1 (9), NIOSH 7400, OSHA (Reference Method ID 160), and ISO ...
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