Hazard Evaluation and Technical Assistance Report No. TA 78-4: Smithsonian Institution: Washington, D.C.

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• Personal Author:
  White, Gary L.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A hazard evaluation and technical assistance survey of levels of airborne asbestos (1332214) at the Smithsonian Institution's Silver Hill, Maryland, Tract B facilities (SIC-9999) is reported. A total of 36 personal and general area air samples were collected on millipore filters. Samples were taken during separate time periods under three conditions: 1) the undisturbed building
  
  2) during simulated rain
  
  and 3) after simulated rain. In an undisturbed empty condition, except for one location, there was no detectable airborne asbestos during a 2 hr sample. However, when a 30 to 45 min rain was simulated by fire hoses, there was a significant increase in airborne asbestos fiber concentrations. Two hours after the simulation, monitoring of routine janitorial tasks showed the employees exposure to be 80 percent of an 8 hr time weighted average daily exposure criteria. It is concluded that a potential health hazard exists for anyone who may have to work in the Smithsonian Institution's Silver Hill buildings. [Description provided by NIOSH]
  
  
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution Air Pollution, Indoor Asbestos Carcinogens Dust Environmental Monitoring Inorganic Chemicals Minerals Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Toxicology

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-pollution Air-quality-measurement Asbestos-dust Building-parts Hazards-Confirmed Industrial-hygiene NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Occupational-health Office-workers OSHA Region 3 Particulate-sampling TA-78-4

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; District of Columbia ; Washington (DC) ; 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:
  12 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Goetz, Carol
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00080620
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82-216318
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, TA 78-4, 1978 Feb ; :1-9
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  9999 - Nonclassifiable establishments - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5eecac09b14f315884b8c5cf5c373217e134c0d85a63d260d9da4a944314fcb63c5cfb26ecea6050dbd905ccb43d207c1f042952f6dbe1f27be1d432faaf7a4f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173812/cdc_173812_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 386.01 KB ]