In-depth survey report: control technology assessment of solid material handling. Phase I - bag opening, emptying, and disposal at Rohm and Haas, Bristol, Pennsylvania.

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• Personal Author:
  Caplan, Paul E. ; Heitbrink, William A. ; McKinnery WN Jr.
• Description:
  A control technology assessment of bag opening, emptying, and disposal operations at Rohm and Haas, Incorporated (SIC-2821), Bristol, Pennsylvania, was conducted in June, 1984. Engineering controls for reducing airborne dust exposures during opening, emptying, and disposal of bags and drums during the production of an acrylic polyvinyl-chloride (PVC) alloy were evaluated. Engineering controls consisted of process enclosure, local exhaust ventilation, automatic bulk feed loading of PVC to the mixer, and floors and walls designed in a way that permitted an effective wash down of contaminated surfaces. An effective respiratory protection program and medical and environmental monitoring programs were in place. Company industrial hygiene data showed that personal exposures to total dust had been reduced from approximately 160 milligrams per cubic meter (mg/m3) in 1974 to 2mg/m3 in 1979. Average exposures to cadmium (7440439) dust were reduced from 1mg/m3 to 0.01mg/m3 over the same time period. The authors conclude that management and workers at the facility have shown a firm commitment to implementing environmental control and occupational health programs. Exposures to PVC dust and cadmium containing dusts have been reduced to safe concentrations according to company industrial hygiene monitoring records.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution Dust Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Control-technology Dust-exposure Field-Study Medical-facilities Medical-monitoring Monitoring-systems Monitors NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Survey Quantitative-analysis Region-3 Respiration Ventilation

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• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHECTB14418b
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Control Technology
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Pennsylvania
• 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:
  1-49
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00154848
• 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 144-18b, 1985 Oct; :1-49
• CAS Registry Number:
  Cadmium (CAS RN 7440-43-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• NORA Priority Area:
  Control-technology
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  2821 - Plastics materials and resins - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e68d339af5bd8d415348dc2f385d6e5a9dbd25fd65251da54cfafdb1039dd44e2415a802456591574127412ad9b46fca252f4ef379a2ad39810cd4048200a36a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/179773/cdc_179773_DS1.pdf
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