Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-81-004-975: Weatherking Products, Inc.; East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Details

• Personal Author:
  Murray, William E. Jr. ; Parr, Wordie H. ; Staub, Wesley E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Workers exposures to radiofrequency (RF) radiation were surveyed on January 14, 1981 at Weatherking Products, Incorporated (SIC-3079) in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The evaluation was requested by the Rhode Island Department of Health, Division of Occupational Health and Radiation Control, on behalf of an unspecified number of workers. Electric and magnetic field strengths were measured at worker positions near the RF heat sealers. Electric and magnetic field strengths ranged up to 4280 square volts per square meter (V2/M2) and up to 0.9 square amperes per square meter (A2/M2), respectively
  
  corresponding OSHA standards are 40,000 V2/M2 and strength. The authors recommend the installation of shielding and use of physical barriers.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Radiation Safety
• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA81004975
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Rhode Island ; OSHA Region 1
• 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:
  9 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00119724
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83-161299
• 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 81-004-975, 1981 October ; 1-9
• Editor(s):
  Swenk, Mary E.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1982
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3079 - Miscellaneous Plastics Products - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2523c258991fcf525bb14147a9ff2be802ff490807596aed867cddef6e26ef71d9e369c2c45e439c2b31ee81506d672a62a8b3405eab1eebf12b474b50c77196
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173245/cdc_173245_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.48 MB ]