The design of the lead standard - focus of more attention on worker needs.

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• Personal Author:
  Zalusky J
• Description:
  An evaluation is presented of the design of the lead (7439921) standard, with special emphasis to workers in industries associated with lead hazards, including storage battery workers, workers in brass foundries, cable makers, electronic industry workers, welders and cutters, scrap metal workers and others. The OSHA standards are criticized on the basis that they are job related and not worker related, meaning that the threshold limit values are based upon time weighted averages that assume an 8-hour day, while many workers often work 10 or 12 hours daily. The standard recommended by NIOSH provides for a threshold limit value of 0.150 milligrams of lead per cubic meter of air, the same as prior to 1958, although other countries specify for much lower levels.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Chemistry Environmental Monitoring Laboratories Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-control Contract-210-75-0026 Control-measures Environmental-control Exposure-limits Heavy-metals Lead-poisoning Metal-poisoning NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Contract Occupational-health Safety-standards Toxicology

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; 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:
  192-195
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00056244
• Citation:
  Health effects of occupational lead and arsenic exposure, a symposium, Carnow BW, ed. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 76-134, 1976 Feb; :192-195
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5d82176a6e45c9f9353e8ef851aaa75a7d0f1074793c39c5e6c490ab9cf8f1a73861b85e969c6e798653e898aac4731cf8ca8f05f2332a46dcd39e0dd12d8eeb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178740/cdc_178740_DS1.pdf
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