Health Hazard Evaluation Determination Report No. 76-12-347: U.S. Post Office: Chicago, Illinois

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• Personal Author:
  Borcherding, Charles H. Jr.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  A health hazard evaluation determination performed by NIOSH personnel at the main U.S. Post Office (SIC-4311) in Chicago revealed that no health hazard exists from dust as found in the work room air of mail bag handling areas. Air samples indicated a maximum personal exposure of less than 10 percent of the evaluation criteria for nuisance dust. Recommendations are made for the use of a sweeping compound during clean up operations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Safety Toxicology
• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Air-quality-measurement Air-sampling Analytical-methods Dust-control Exposure-limits Hazard-Unconfirmed HHE-76-12-347 Mail Bag Handling NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Publication Nuisance Dust Occupational-health OSHA Region 5

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHHE7612347
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; Chicago (IL) ; 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:
  7 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Flesch, Jerome P. ; Kramkowski, Richard S. ; Salisbury, Stanley A.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00058638
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-264687
• 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, HHE 76-12-347, 1976 Dec ; :1-7
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  4311 - U.S. Postal Service - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:04b9cc58c41c4ab60c2ac19c0d3f48c0c63d23f3298bb3de0c5f7a72e5ef8983769542aff75917e85351aba78ea8f0681b2b8ac8802bc1a1c4d19cecdfc80b03
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/173975/cdc_173975_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1022.85 KB ]