Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Methyl Alcohol [1976]

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Debbas, Gamil
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Criteria for a recommended standard to protect the employees against exposure to methyl-alcohol in the work place for up to a 10-hour workday, 40-hour workweek, over a working lifetime. The main topics covered include: concentration, sampling, calibration and analysis of workplace air; medical surveillance; labeling and posting; personal protective equipment and clothing; informing the employees of methyl-alcohol (67561) hazards; work practices; sanitation practices; monitoring and record keeping; biologic effects of exposure, including epidemiology, animal toxicity and correlation of exposure and effect; environmental data and engineering controls; work practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Ergonomics Methanol Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety Safety Management Solvents Toxicology

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• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Criteria-Document; Organic-solvents; Toxicology; Exposure-limits; Air-quality-control; Analytical-methods; Preventive-medicine; Control-measures; Safety-measures; Safety-standards; Sampling-methods; Occupational-health; Safety-equipment; Environmental-engineering; Safety-engineering; Accident-prevention
• 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. 76-148, 1976 Mar; :1-145
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Criteria Document
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB76148
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CDC-99-74-31
• Genre:
  Standards
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DCDSD - Division of Criteria Documents and Standards Developments
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  146 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00053885
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-273806
• CAS Registry Number:
  Methanol (CAS RN 67-56-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Performing Organization:
  Stanford Research Institute
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Guidelines and Recommendations
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4528f839bc7ed5dbb1f3cfe4164e73375ac9284dc871d7fe32105f0d5406516f421db19496242e17e7f27f742dbc140a4b32fdb316bab06e4ce0d35793fa164c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19359/cdc_19359_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.14 MB ]