Industrial hygiene assessment of seven brake servicing facilities - asbestos.

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• Personal Author:
  Johnson P ; Roberts D ; Zumwalde, Ralph D.
• Description:
  A major objective of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is to determine environmental exposures of working populations through research, surveys, and industrywide studies. Accordingly, NIOSH is presently conducting research to characterize dust exposure resulting from vehicle brake servicing operations. Of particular interest are the small diameter, potentially respirable asbestos fibers generated by these operations. Limited studies have suggested that such emissions may be associated with asbestos-induced diseases. An estimated workforce of 900,000 brake mechanics and garage workers in the U.S. are potentially exposed to asbestos. An estimated 118 million pounds of asbestos are used annually in the U.S. for the production of brake friction materials. In addition to asbestos, other materials which are used in the manufacture of brake linings such as lead, zinc, copper, and iron pose other potentials for exposures. Rohl and Langer identified thirty materials or compounds that make up the binders, fiber reinforcers, and the property modifiers as being present during brake lining manufacturing.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Burns Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-monitoring Air-sampling Airborne-fibers Asbestos-dust Asbestos-fibers Automobile-repair-shops Control-methods Fibrous-dusts Field-Study Industrial-ventilation Lung-irritants Mechanics Metallic-dusts Occupational-exposure Trace-metals Work-practices Workplace-studies

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• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Studies ; Industry Wide
• Place as Subject:
  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:
  1-41
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025285
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, IWS 32-04, 1979 Jan; :1-41
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Iron (CAS RN 7439-89-6) ; Zinc (CAS RN 7440-66-6) ; Manganese (CAS RN 7439-96-5) ; Copper (CAS RN 7440-50-8) ; Aluminum (CAS RN 7429-90-5) ; Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1979
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  7539 - Automotive repair shops, not elsewhere classified - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5724575368ba8809d5c947d74a26c30217cb6ec71e0b5a0c6bc93c528efe3ab8263c2ec524263e77113a3662515eaaca1d79323405f3db93b35952ed2d495f00
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181234/cdc_181234_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.75 MB ]