Recommended occupational health standard for manufacture of synthetic polymer from vinyl chloride

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• Alternative Title:
  NIOSH recommended standard for occupational exposure to vinyl chloride
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Prefaced by one page entitled "NIOSH recommended standard for occupational exposure to vinyl chloride" consisting of "excerpts from a March 11, 1974, memorandum from Marcus M . Key, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to John H. Slender, Assistant Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration transmitting the NIOSH recommendations."
  
  "Background (events and toxicological findings) of the standard
  
  scope and application
  
  definitions of terms
  
  requirements for regulated areas
  
  routine operations
  
  reactor and vessel entry
  
  maintenance and decontamination
  
  hygiene measures
  
  signs
  
  information and training
  
  environmental monitoring and record keeping
  
  reports
  
  medical surveillance. Despite the fact that animal experiments have shown no liver tumors at atmospheric concentrations of 50 ppm, the concept of an allowable working level is rejected, since there is probably no threshold for carcinogenesis. Any person exposed to measurable concentrations of vinyl chloride should wear an air-supplied respirator, since chemical cartridge respirators do not afford adequate protection against vinyl chloride vapors." - NIOSHTIC-2
  
  NIOSHTIC no. 00029788
  
  
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Standards
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  8 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00029788
• Collection(s):
  Guidelines and Recommendations National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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