Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Emergency Egress from Elevated Workstations [1975]

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Procedures and equipment are recommended for worker emergency egress from elevated workstations. The standard is designed to assure workers of a means of emergency egress during situations in which there could be a threat to life, health, or safety. Information is given on: the extent of exposure to elevated workstations; the effects of psychological stress on humans during the need for emergency egress; present equipment, standards, procedures and training evaluation; and the development of this standard. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergencies Ergonomics Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Criteria-Document; Safety-measures; Safety-equipment; Psychological-factors; Emergency-equipment
• Source:
  Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 76-128, 1975 Jan; :1-65
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Criteria Document
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB76128
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Standards
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ORSD - Office of Research and Standards Development
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  67 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00051754
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-248594
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Performing Organization:
  The National Loss Control Service Corporation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Guidelines and Recommendations
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:640f6660cc28fa40159f356dd8ebea074ae28eed780a9ea83bd6be0a91ff0cf84ebb1122549772001b70bbd4f84946665976619c8778a646d6bfe335f8cf4311
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19349/cdc_19349_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.05 MB ]