Bay area asbestos surveillance project (BAASP).

Details

• Personal Author:
  Polakoff, Phillip L. ; Polakoff, Phillip L.
• Description:
  A study, the Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project (BAASP), was instituted to screen persons including women who had worked in shipyards during World War-II and male longshore and shipyard workers who believed they had been exposed to asbestos (1332214) prior to 1963 in the San Francisco Bay area in California. The Project initiated a process of worker notification concerning asbestos related disease in the shipyard and longshore industries, advanced public awareness of the hazards of asbestos, began to identify persons who experienced significant exposure to asbestos, and provided some assessment of the medical and social needs of asbestos exposed workers and their families. Of 2244 workers examined by x-ray, 46 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 30 percent showed questionable abnormality. Of 208 longshoremen, 41 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 20 percent showed questionable abnormality. Of 186 women, 26 percent showed potentially serious abnormality and 35 percent showed questionable abnormality. The author concludes that at the very least the results of the study emphasize again the importance of asbestos as a threat to many industrial workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asbestos Dust Inorganic Chemicals Lung Diseases Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Ships
• Keywords:
  Asbestos-dust Asbestos-fibers Contract-210-78-0113 Fibrous-bodies Fibrous-dusts Lung-disorders NIOSH-Contract Pulmonary-system-disorders Shipbuilding-industry Shipyard-industry Shipyard-workers

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Report ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-67
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00163534
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-105466
• Citation:
  Western Institute for Occupational/Environmental Sciences, Inc., Berkeley, California 1980 Dec; :1-67
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4) ; Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ; Disease and Injury: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Western Institute for Occupational/Environmental Sciences, Inc., Berkeley, California
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:12bb98e93b60ed9886af5a5529f304e32e3d6c424fcde8facfa9c74fe5f06f6d0cb6672b8390df6f22bb8b93b31dcc7671bcd84e551e94dbcf1446e146e4221c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185002/cdc_185002_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.99 MB ]