Industrial Health and Safety Criteria for Abrasive Blast Cleaning Operations

Details

• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Goodier, J. Leslie ; Boudreau, E. ; Coletta, Gerard C. ; Lucas, Robert
• Description:
  Existing standards and safety and health conditions are evaluated in a broad representative scope of abrasive blast cleaning operations within various industries, to recommend changes or additions to enhance ventilation, safety, and health criteria and to substantially improve personal protective equipment for abrasive blast cleaning operators and other workers in the pressure blast cleaning area. Topics include technical discussion of portable blast cleaning machines, hand-operated units within blast cleaning rooms, automatic blast cleaning machines, wet blast cleaning machines, past health and industrial accident experience, existing safety and health standards for abrasive blast cleaning, dust exposure, summary of dust exposure hazards, recommended criteria, ventilation and dust removal, sound level exposure, vision impairment, and general safety. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Dust Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Ventilation
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Contract; Contract-099-72-0083; Industrial-health; Ventilation-systems; Dust-control; Respiratory-system-disorders; Airborne-dusts; Safety-standards; Control-measures; Exposure-limits; Noise-control
• Source:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 75-122, 1974 Sep; :1-114
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB75122
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  NIOSH contract-099-72-0083
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DLCD - Division of Laboratories and Criteria Development
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  61 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00028649
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-223022
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1974
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7197bd1cacc8b4dde1aaf8cc89be597e20b3eac5bb0d668920d32da2b8a98380a694cf701857656ce00527879c6e54313e0e102ddd44ecd479d169a10879e885
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/115252/cdc_115252_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.34 MB ]