Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-89-284-L2029: Technical Assistance to the Federal Employees Occupational Health; Seattle, Washington

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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 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (SIC- 9711), Seattle, Washington, an investigation was made of possible hazardous working conditions for lock personnel at two facilities, Chittenden Locks in Seattle and the Ice Harbor Lock and Dam near Pasco. Specific concern was voiced over possible exposure to microwave radiation from marine radar systems on watercraft passing through the locks. Radar equipment was often left on, even though it was not needed in the locks. Approximately 100,000 commercial and pleasure vessels navigated Chittenden Locks annually. At Ice Harbor Lock and Dam the volume of vessels was much less, but the same type of marine radar systems was in place. Many of the pleasure boats either turned off their marine radar systems or put them into standby as they entered the locks. They were requested to turn them back on for this study. The author concludes that electric and magnetic field intensities measured did not represent a health hazard to lock personnel. The author recommends that signs be posted at the locks to remind incoming craft to turn off their marine radar systems and that commercially available radar detector systems be installed to monitor any nonadherence to this recommendation.
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Radiation Safety
• Keywords:
  Hazard-Unconfirmed HETA-89-284-L2029 Microwave-radiation NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Nonionizing-radiation OSHA Region 10 Radiation-exposure
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA89284L2029
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Washington ; OSHA Region 10
• 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
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00194446
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91-107920
• 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 89-284-L2029, 1990 Apr ; :1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1990
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9711 - National security - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0bafefcf449f3f0d8e384ef10b9276f861d1bca6a7fa5624858f7600e1c877450f80cd1d7d218af9ed7c3a962a416995578988e08ed5d0f674136c8ed640bb89
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171755/cdc_171755_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 345.87 KB ]