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

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  These criteria and the recommended standard apply to exposure of employees to solid, liquid, or gaseous 3-chloro-1,2-epoxypropane, hereafter referred to at "epichlorohydrin include 1-chloro-2,3-epoxypropylene oxide, gamma-chloropropylene oxide, 3-chloro-1,2-propylene oxide, 2-chloromethyl-oxirane, alpha epichlorohydrin, epichlorohydrin, and epichlorohydrin. "Occupational exposure to epichlorohydrin" is defined as exposure to airborne epichlorohydrin at concentrations exceeding the action level. The "action level" is defined as one-half of the recommended time-weighted average (TWA) environmental concentration for epichlorohydrin. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Epichlorohydrin Hazardous Substances Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Solvents
• Keywords:
  Industrial-medicine; Hazardous-materials; Occupational-safety; Air-sampling; Permissible-concentration-limits; Occupational-exposure; NIOSH-Criteria-Document
• 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. 76-206, 1976 Sep; :1-152
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Criteria Document
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB76206
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• 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:
  163 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Wills, J. Henry ; Spencer, Howard ; Silver, Seymour ; Mitchell, Frank L.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000322
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB81-227019
• CAS Registry Number:
  Epichlorohydrin (CAS RN 106-89-8)
• 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-512:6c54b268f2bf5c5f1f790eb676add1a52251ea063194949cffde82032cad9866f95b71b975eb081faf37401a665cc136ca5e7b9b15bc2d9b93d0d227a6c7b6b4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19372/cdc_19372_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.40 MB ]