Walk-through survey report: control technology for fermentation processes at Miles Laboratories, Incorporated, Elkhart, Indiana.

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• Personal Author:
  Martinez, Kenneth F.
• Description:
  A walk through survey to assess control technology at the enzyme production facility of Miles Laboratories, Incorporated (SIC-2869), Elkhart, Indiana, was conducted in July 1983. The enzyme production operation was essentially a closed system. Employee contact with the process, once the raw materials were deposited into individual containers, was minimal other than for equipment maintenance or manual broth sample extraction. The enclosed inoculation procedure ensured that a pure culture was delivered to the seed fermentors and also reduced the possibility of employee contact with the microbial biomass. The overall process technology was modern; most of the large scale process operations could be controlled or monitored by a computer system. The facility maintained a clean occupational environment and good work practices. Although the health program was maintained at the corporate level, the facility was in the process of developing a procedure for detecting trace quantities of enzymes in the ambient air. Preplacement and selected periodic medical evaluations were performed. Personal protective equipment was used when potentially hazardous operations were performed.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Preceptorship Radiation Radio Waves Safety
• Keywords:
  Chemical-manufacturing-industry Control-methods Control-technology Employee-exposure Exposure-levels Field-Study Industrial-engineering Industrial-processes NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Region-5 Safety-practices

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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHECTB11616a
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Control Technology
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00134884
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ECTB 116-16a, 1984 Mar; :1-12
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1984
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2869 - Industrial organic chemicals, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6280e90e56d8d0602065fee18bb038e73fd721c09390a294639f84e900ef0d6ebbd0e6e769907f8dee41f3686e25f06e9740fb46ef8000cc1ba852b1486c9413
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179629/cdc_179629_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 491.65 KB ]