Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-91-166-2180: Integrated Performance Solutions, Inc.; Boulder, Colorado

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• Personal Author:
  Moss, C. Eugene
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from management at the Integrated Performance Solutions, Inc. (SIC-3634), Boulder, Colorado, an evaluation was undertaken of occupational exposure to 60 hertz (Hz) electric and magnetic fields from an electrical resistive heating system. The company was a two-person high tech consulting firm that provided software and computer support to other companies. The heating system at the facility can produce both electrical and magnetic fields. These fields, if they were at certain magnitudes, could pose occupational radiation exposure hazards. The heating system used a continuous bronze screen mesh in the floor as the resistive element. Extra low frequency (ELF) measurements were made on the heating system at two different locations. The maximum ELF levels were 200 volts per meter (V/m) and 10 milligauss at one location and 4.9V/m and 1.9 gauss at another location. The levels suggested by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Threshold Limit Values were 25,000V/m and 10 gauss, respectively. While The author concludes that no hazard existed at the time of the survey. The author recommends specific measures which should reduce the exposure even further.
• Subjects:
  Electricity Electromagnetic Phenomena Magnetic Fields Occupational Health Radiation Safety
• Keywords:
  Electrical-equipment Electrical-fields Electrical Resistive Heating Electric Housewares And Fans Electromagnetic-fields Electromagnetic Radiation ELF Radiation Hazard-Unconfirmed Heating-equipment HETA-91-166-2180 Magnetic-fields NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Nonionizing-radiation OSHA Region 8

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA911662180
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• 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:
  27 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00206936
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92-193879
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 91-166-2180, 1992 Feb ; :1-30
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3634 - Electric housewares and fans - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2742b069d260fada18c9c2aae23044220a936e9887c3760a289bdb606840c3a14580eaa08aabf09047b96a1beb9f2d01e50c2dc6f42819f0d26abcbe8850ea1c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171599/cdc_171599_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.20 MB ]