Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-93-0994-2417: U.S. Department of Transportation; Washington, D.C.

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• Personal Author:
  Mattorano, Dino A. ; Moss, C. Eugene
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from Department of Transportation personnel, a health hazard evaluation was performed of the working environment at the Nassif Building (SIC-9621), Washington, DC. Employees were concerned about exposures to extremely low frequency (ELF) electric and magnetic fields. Magnetic fields in an area on the sixth floor had been found to be higher than on adjacent floors. Electric and magnetic fields were measured on the fifth, sixth, and seventh floors during a typical workday. Measured levels during the NIOSH investigation ranged from 1.6 to 1.9 volts per meter for the electric field and 0.2 to 1,271 milligauss for the magnetic field. These levels were below the limits in place at this time. There were slightly higher readings for magnetic fields in the southeast quadrant of the sixth floor
  
  this was attributed to several sources including transformers, handholes, and laser printers. The authors conclude that no hazard existed at the time of the survey from exposure to ELF electric and magnetic fields. The authors recommend measures which may reduce the potential occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Magnetic Fields Occupational Health Radiation Safety
• Keywords:
  Electromagnetic-radiation ELF EMF Hazard-Unconfirmed HETA-93-0994-2417 Magnetic-fields NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Nonionizing-radiation Office-workers Office Building OSHA Region 3 Radiation-exposure Regulation And Administration Of Transportation Programs

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9309942417
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Reh, Christopher M.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00220126
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB94-194511
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: 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 93-0994-2417, 1994 May ; :1-15
• Editor(s):
  Blythe, Ellen E.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9621 - Regulation and administration of transportation - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b436c6c3549c2c54ba122d44950db68da21351a95c73f190e86b042774b1d1b9d31de14e4b1dc55b72d5fa8a9fb4b23222793a98ce5e240afb7e012b4f0bf3ba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171371/cdc_171371_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 183.44 KB ]