Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-88-364-2104: Library of Congress, Madison Building, Vol. III; Association Between Health and Comfort Concerns and Environmental Conditions, Washington, D.C.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A systematic study was designed to assess the nature and spatial distribution of employee health symptoms and comfort concerns in the Madison Building of the Library of Congress (LOC), Washington, DC. This report presented the multivariate analyses of all the study results. The primary associations observed in all the gathered data both in consistency and magnitude, were observed between health symptoms and both the perception of thermal comfort and the perception of odors. Few associations were demonstrated between symptom occurrence and objective environmental measurements. No environmental contaminants were identified at levels above any relevant criteria or standards with the exception of one location at which an elevated level of fungi was detected. A variety of workstation risk factors were identified for symptoms associated with ergonomic stresses. These included uncomfortable chairs, hours working at video display terminals, and inadequate lighting. Several recommendations are made to improve building maintenance and ventilation and reduce job stress.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Environmental Health Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Ventilation
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-monitoring Hazard-Unconfirmed HETA-88-364-2104 Human-factors-engineering Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality Job-stress NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Office-workers OSHA Region 3 Ventilation-systems

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA883642104
• 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:
  132 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Fine, Lawrence ; Teichman, Kevin ; Fidler, Anne ; Wilcox, Thomas ; Hurrell, Joseph ; Hornung, Richard ; Kollander, Mel ; Wallace, Lance ; Brenner, F. Cecil ; Clickner, Robert ; Dietz, Stephen ; Leaderer, Brian ; Selfridge, O. John ; Gorman, Richard ; Crandall, Michael ; Stanevich, Rebecca ; Burroughs, G. E. ; Burr, Gregory A. ; Seitz, Teresa ; Klein, Matthew K. ; Highsmith, Ross ; Purdue, Larry ; Persily, Andrew ; Hall, H. Irene ; Wild, Deanna ; Clayton, Andy ; Dunteman, George ; Nelson, C. J.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00200829
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92-103191
• 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 88-364-2104, 1991 Mar ; :1-135
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8231 - Libraries - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:be16902d2f159ed591a082dc8642d40873865bc33c8f16b75a30b7086495564d93c8d099be019d601bae055737f9396e5f7b7503d5b7f0989167d4742ab1b52d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171656/cdc_171656_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.13 MB ]