Engineering and administrative controls.

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• Personal Author:
  Hughes RT
• Description:
  I want to give a definition of control technology. As applied to the industrial workplace, control technology consists of engineering control, work practices, and personal protective equipment. With respect to engineering controls, there are several types in the hierarchy - with some considerably better than others. Engineering control can be designed into the process or the process machinery initially or it can be obtained by making changes after the installation of the process machinery. This type of control can either completely eliminate the emission or substantially reduce it. It can prevent emissions into the workplace. Of course, if you can keep the emissions out of the workplace, you have gone about 99 per cent or better toward controlling exposure. Another method would be the modification of operational process machinery or processes. This can do the same thing to some degree, but it's obvious that it may be very difficult for many processes and probably nearly impossible in a majority of places if the process is already in operation.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Hazardous Substances Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Control-methods Control-technology Emission-sources Engineering-controls Personal-protective-equipment Toxins Ventilation Ventilation-systems Work-practices
• Publisher:
  NIOSH
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  53-55
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20031051
• Citation:
  Proceedings of NIOSH Styrene-Butadiene Briefing, April 30, 1976, Covington, Kentucky. Cincinnati, OH: NIOSH, 1976 Apr; :53-55
• Editor(s):
  Ede L
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of NIOSH Styrene-Butadiene Briefing, April 30, 1976, Covington, Kentucky
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:38061b3b4f11cc70312c6faf71a3826b6d1ed07a738a33e6794322318941899a33b9562f9fd183c8ea25aa523ef8f4daf37f49d9c86d5f3f8c3849f1b60b86e3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181457/cdc_181457_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.20 MB ]