Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA 96-0012-2652: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

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• Personal Author:
  Esswein, Eric J. ; Kawamoto, Melody M. ; Wallingford, Kenneth M. ; Worthington, Karen A.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In 1995, the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) asked the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to conduct a health hazard evaluation at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), a large teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, MNA, which represents BWH staff nurses, reported that many BWH nurses had developed health problems such as skin and respiratory irritation, asthma, latex allergy, and sensitivity to chemicals. the nurses were concerned that these health problems were related to poor indoor air quality (IAQ) in the Patient Tower and in the Center for Women and Newborns (CWN, a new BWH building adjacent and connected to the Patient Tower). Some of the nurses hypothesized that, around March 1993, an event (e.g., a chemical spill or leak) happened within the Patient Tower, contaminating the indoor environment.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Environmental Health Hospitals Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Skin Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Building Chemical-sensitivity Chemical Sensitivity Communication Construction General Medical And Surgical Hospitals Hazards-confirmed Health-hazard-evaluation Health-records Hospital Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality Indoor Air Quality Indoor Environmental Quality Interviews Latex Occupational-safety-and-health Organization OSHA Region 1 Renovation Return To Work Skin-irritations Workers-compensation

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9600122652
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  131 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Alterman, Toni ; Bernard, Bruce P. ; Brassell, Jenise ; Coleman, Marian E. ; Goldenhar, Linda M. ; Grosch, James W. ; Hurrell, Joseph J. ; Jenkins, Barbara L. ; Lim, Soo-Yee ; MacDonald, Leslie A. ; McGraw, Patricia C. ; Moore, Elaine ; Singal, Mitchell ; Petsonk, E. Lee ; Pinkerton, Lynne E. ; Tepper, Allison
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000001
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-152332
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 96-0012-2652, 1997 Sep ; :1-126
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8062 - General medical & surgical hospitals - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:62d9a263a6b0a2650314726343ea7e92cc6c2d870f9d5f4db667fd27613bace13148121979d37d36d4921150a499a78a1e8058737ae20739b2ed823c2ccaff72
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171080/cdc_171080_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 622.68 KB ]