Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-82-269-1341: Cincinnati Technical College; Cincinnati, Ohio

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• Personal Author:
  Donohue, Michael T. ; Stephenson, Richard L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A health hazard evaluation was conducted to assess causes of symptoms reported by employees of the Cincinnati Technical College (SIC-8222) Learning Resource Center, in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 14 and 15, 1982. The survey was requested by an unidentified individual on behalf of 13 employees in the Center. Complaints included lethargy, headache, sinus congestion, persistent colds, eye irritation, dizziness, faintness, nausea, nose bleeds, and skin rash. Air sampling, ventilation measurements, and temperature and humidity measurements were taken. Employees were interviewed. All environmental air concentrations measured were below OSHA and NIOSH standards for air contaminants. The authors recommend prohibition of parking or idling of motor vehicles near the Center air intakes, elevation of the fresh air intake vents to prevent motor vehicle exhausts from entering the building, maintenance of relative humidity between 20 and 60 percent, maintenance of makeup air at a flow rate of 5 or 20 cubic feet per minute for nonsmoking and smoking areas, respectively, and the provision of a health care unit with appropriate first aid supplies and trained personnel.
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-sampling Carbon Dioxide Carbon Monoxide Clinical-symptoms Employee-exposure Formaldehyde Hazards-Confirmed HETA-82-269-1341 Humidity NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Office Building Office Workers OSHA Region 5 Ozone Technical Institutes Ventilation Video Display Terminal Worker-health

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA822691341
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  20 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00133592
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB85-102887
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 82-269-1341, 1983 Jul ; :1-17
• Editor(s):
  Lovell, Patricia
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8222 - Junior colleges - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:adc20faa5286eb5649e1643579546084077e42e45e06d5afa188a572fffeb095293fe7f5ae53d458485a6e4eb8cc3c928727eb8ff90795243621c8fccf359798
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/172900/cdc_172900_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.78 MB ]