Mining surveillance: potentially toxic occupational exposures.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Toxic chemicals and physical agents found in mines are reviewed. Information from research findings, compliance data, and inventory listings is provided. Guidelines for validity, sampling, elimination of zero values, data comparison and determination of toxic concentrations are described. Reliability of exposure data and identification of agents for which there is no environmental data is discussed. Tablulated data is included for agents found in mine environments, exposure concentrations, and recommended exposure standards.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Bibliography Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Safety Waste Management
• Keywords:
  Environmental-contamination Environmental-hazards Industrial-hygiene Mine-gases Mine-workers Mining-industry
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Other
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-19
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00115804
• Citation:
  Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1979 May; :1-19
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8fa629d4ad271a1f348c408c30cced86454ce7d4f300c0f876a42f72acb9abe69cf9682b5294386df07b891a27b05e2e3bf6723fbab646e7b1344db10ce7f0a4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179121/cdc_179121_DS1.pdf
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