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Guidelines and Recommendations
CDC Guidelines and Recommendations are updated by various CDC centers and institutes in response to new scientific discoveries, to public health issues, and to disease outbreaks. Items in this collection may have been superceded or replaced. For the most up to date information, please visit the CDC home page at https://www.cdc.gov/ and search the Health Topic or Outbreak you are interested in.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/12/01
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This report presents the criteria and the recommended standard based thereon which were prepared to meet the need for preventing occupational disease or injury arising from exposure to 1,1,2,2- tetrachloroethane (79345). The recommendations for the standard include sections on environmental, medical, labeling and posting, personal protective equipm
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/12/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
This report presents the criteria and recommended standard based thereon which were prepared to meet the need for preventing occupational diseases arising from exposure to boron trifluoride and resultant mists. The biological effects of exposure are reviewed including effects on humans, epidemiological studies, and animal toxicity. Tables are prese
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/11/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The criteria and the recommended standard based thereon prepared to meet the need for preventing occupational disease or injury arising from exposure to organotins. The proposed standard applies only to workplace exposure to organotins arising from the processing, manufacture, or use of the substances as applicable under the Occupational Safety and
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/10/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
Recommended criteria for a standard intended to protect the health of workers against exposure to hydrogen-cyanide (74908) and cyanide salts, especially sodium-cyanide (13998033), potassium-cyanide (151508) and calcium-cyanide (592018), for up to a 10-hour work shift, 40-hour work week, over a working lifetime. Occupational exposure to these compou
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/10/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
Recommended criteria for a standard intended to protect the employees against exposure to acrylamide (79061) in the workplace for up to a 10-hour work shift, 40-hour work week, over a working lifetime. Occupational exposure to acrylamine, because of systemic effects and dermal irritation produced by contact with acrylamide, is defined as work in an
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/09/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The criteria and the recommended standard based thereon prepared to meet the need for preventing occupational diseases arising from exposure to carbaryl (63252) are presented. Occupational exposure to carbaryl is defined as exposure to airborne carbaryl, the 1- naphthyl ester of N-methylcarbamic-acid or 1-naphthyl-N- methylcarbamate, at concentrati
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/09/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The criteria and recommended standard prepared to meet the need for preventing occupational diseases arising from exposure to methyl- parathion are presented. The proposed standard applies only to the manufacture, formulation, application, or other occupational exposure to methyl-parathion (298000) as applicable under the Occupational Safety and He
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/09/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
These criteria and the recommended standard apply to exposure of employees to solid, liquid, or gaseous 3-chloro-1,2-epoxypropane, hereafter referred to at "epichlorohydrin include 1-chloro-2,3-epoxypropylene oxide, gamma-chloropropylene oxide, 3-chloro-1,2-propylene oxide, 2-chloromethyl-oxirane, alpha epichlorohydrin, epichlorohydrin, and epichlo
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/09/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The recommended standards include an exposure limit of 1.0 ppm as a time-weighted concentration for up to 10-hour work shift in a 40-hour work week, with a ceiling concentration of 3.0 ppm for 15 minutes. Provisions are included for sampling, collection, analysis, pre-employment medical examination, periodic examinations, first-aid, medical records
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/08/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The NIOSH standard on exposure to cadmium (7440439) in the workplace is presented. The standard is designed to protect the health and safety of workers up to a 10 hour workday, 40 hour week, over a working lifetime. A time-weighted average (TWA) exposure concentration of 40 micrograms of cadmium per cubic meter of air for a 10 hour working day (200
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/08/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The recommended standards include an exposure limit of 10,000 ppm (1 percent) as a time-weighted average concentration for up to a 10- hour work shift in a 40-hour work week, with a ceiling concentration of 30,000 ppm (3 percent) for 10 minutes. Provisions are included for sampling, collection, analysis, pre-employment medical examinations, periodi
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/08/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The update criteria and recommendations for a revised benzene standard to that of August 1976 are given. NIOSH considers the accumulated evidence from clinical as well as from epidemiologic data to be conclusive at this time that benzene is leukemogenic. Because it causes progressive, malignant disease of the blood- forming organs, NIOSH recommends
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/07/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
Information on the toxicity and recommended exposure standards for 1,1,1-trichloroethane (71556) is presented. Chemical properties of the compound are reviewed, along with industrial production figures, uses, and worker exposures. Results of epidemiological and animal toxicity studies are discussed. Toxic effects on the human nervous and cardiovasc
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/07/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
NIOSH recommends in this document that occupational exposure to workplace air concentrations of tetrachloroethylene (127184) shall not exceed 50 parts per million (ppm) determined as a time weighted average (TWA) concentration for up to a 10 hour workday, 40 hour workweek, or at greater than a ceiling concentration of 100ppm determined by 15 minute
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/07/01
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The recommended NIOSH standards for preventing occupational injuries and deaths in logging operations are presented along with sections containing data indicating the extent of logging hazards upon which the need for the standards are based, training guidelines and research needs. The standards pertain only to the operations of felling, bucking, li
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/07/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
Criteria document giving recommendations for an occupational exposure standard for phenol (108952). Recommendations are made in respect of environmental, medical, labeling and posting, protection, information, work practices, sanitation, monitoring and recordkeeping factors. The biologic effects of exposure are discussed in terms of the extent of e
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/07/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
Criteria document giving recommendations for an occupational exposure standard for acetylene (74862). Sections include recommendations for an acetylene standard based on environmental, medical, labeling and posting and other factors; biologic effects of exposure dealing with extent of exposure, historical reports, effects on humans, epidemiologic s
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/06/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The criteria for a recommended standard for occupational exposure to parathion (56382) includes recommendations for a standard, biologic effects of exposure, environmental and biologic methodologies, development of standard, work practices, research needs, and appendices. The recommendations cover environmental (workplace air), medical surveillance
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/06/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
Criteria document giving recommendations for an occupational exposure standard for malathion (121755). Recommendations are made in respect of environmental, medical, labeling and posting, protection, information, work practices, sanitation, monitoring and recordkeeping factors. Other sections deal with biologic effects of exposure, in terms of the
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1976/05/01
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NIOSH Numbered Publications
The recommended NIOSH standards for protecting against injury from chlorine (7782505) are presented along with sections containing the criteria upon which the standards are based--biologic effects of exposure and environmental data. Other sections contain comparisons with previous standards; bases for the recommended exposure limits; safety precaut
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