Environmental health needs at Merritt Island Launch Area, Kennedy Space Flight Center, Florida.

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• Personal Author:
  Ayer HE ; Heller AM ; Hoover SW ; Trombetta SJ ; Wheeler AC
• Description:
  Recommendations are given for space, equipment, and personnel necessary for maintaining an adequate environmental health program at an aerospace facility performing static test firing of rocket motors or launching of missiles, and using fuels containing or composed of pentaborane perchlorate, triethyl aluminum or TEA, trichloroethylene, unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine or UDMH, argon, ethyl alcohol, ethylene glycol, fluorine-oxygen or FLOX, helium, hydrazine, hydrogen, hydrogen peroxide, inhibited red fuming nitric acid or IRFNA, liquid air and liquid oxygen, RP-1 (Kerosene), monomethyl hydrazine or MMH, nitrogen tetroxide, and additives such as beryllium and lead. Areas of interest include air pollution, industrial hygiene, environmental engineering, food protection, radiological health, and water control, with some information given for potential hazards, and required protectiive and monitoring equipment and installations.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Paper Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Wood
• Keywords:
  Aerospace-industry Air-contaminants Air-quality-control Analytical-techniques Environment-control Flammable-materials Measurement-instrumentation MX8007587 Rocket-fuels Safety-measures Sampling Toxic-gases Toxic-substances

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• Document Type:
  Text
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-20
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00020720
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1965 Jan; :1-20
• CAS Registry Number:
  Argon (CAS RN 7440-37-1) ; Helium (CAS RN 7440-59-7) ; Hydrogen (CAS RN 1333-74-0) ; Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Trichloroethylene (CAS RN 79-01-6) ; Fluorine (CAS RN 7782-41-4) ; Ethanol (CAS RN 64-17-5) ; Oxygen (CAS RN 7782-44-7) ; Ethylene glycol (CAS RN 107-21-1) ; Methylhydrazine (CAS RN 60-34-4) ; Hydrogen peroxide (CAS RN 7722-84-1) ; 1,1-Dimethylhydrazine (CAS RN 57-14-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1965
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3d2fe6537cf65a38099e008dfe912a9be037fe42111288f36e7f1c417ba04128d229bfbb13d560a0104ecf542081826e1e60e5990a0705c8fea06a1cfd674ff4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178648/cdc_178648_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 960.50 KB ]