Workplace Monitoring of Occupational Exposure to Refractory Ceramic Fiber – a 17-Year Retrospective

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• Personal Author:
  Allshouse J ; Fairfax RE ; Lentz, Thomas J. ; Maxim LD ; Venturin D ; Walters TE
• Description:
  This article presents a 17-year (1990-2006) retrospective summary of ongoing studies of occupational exposure to refractory ceramic fiber (RCF) in the United States. Beginning in 1990, RCF producers integrated and harmonized individual workplace monitoring programs to provide data useful for various longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses, benchmarking, and various technical analyses. For 10 of these 17 years, the program has been conducted in partnership with government agencies, first a 5-year (1993-1998) program with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and later another 5-year (2002-2006) program with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. This article updates earlier published studies and provides lessons to be learned in the design of industrial hygiene monitoring and control programs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ceramics Dust Fibrosis Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Analytical-methods Ceramic-materials Control-methods Control-technology Fibrous-bodies Fibrous-dusts Occupational-exposure Work-environment Work-practices Workplace-monitoring
• ISSN:
  0895-8378
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; New Jersey ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Tennessee
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  289-309
• Volume:
  20
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033717
• Citation:
  Inhal Toxicol 2008 Mar; 20(3):289-309
• Email:
  Postsf@aol.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Inhalation Toxicology
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fac57073a552548d4374347f6ddaa16181893282804b4f232d686f9bf65ad1d964baa1410589a062e783b6cf336e94e45534545d7fa47b074ee0df1c89acc8de
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189182/cdc_189182_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.08 MB ]