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

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This criteria document presents recommended standards for occupational exposure to formaldehyde (50000). Criteria presented are designed to protect against injury from formaldehyde; allow measurement by valid, reproducible procedures available to industry and official agencies; and be attainable by using existing technology. Sources of formaldehyde exposure include aqueous solutions such as formalin, and formaldehyde yielding substances such as trioxane, paraformaldehyde, polyoxymethylene, and hexamethylene-tetramine. Recommendations are provided for monitoring of workplace air, labeling and posting of hazardous materials, personal protective equipment and clothing, work practices and engineering controls and sanitation methods. Also covered are biological effects of exposure, environmental data, and occupational research priorities for formaldehyde. The section on work practices includes information on injury prevention, eye protection, skin protection, various kinds of respiratory devices, ventilation of rooms, monitoring the air, protective clothing and equipment, and hazards of explosion. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aldehydes Carcinogens Epidemiology Eye Eye Diseases Formaldehyde Hazardous Substances Mutagens Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Sense Organs

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• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Criteria-Document; Personal-protective-equipment; Aldehydes; Eye-protective-equipment; Respiratory-system-disorders; Eye-disorders; Toxicity; Epidemiology; Analytical-methods; Carcinogenicity; Mutagenicity; Safety-engineering; Industrial-health
• 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. 77-126, 1976 Dec; :1-175
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Criteria Document
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB77126
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Standards
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Michigan ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• 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:
  177 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00069069
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-273805
• CAS Registry Number:
  Formaldehyde (CAS RN 50-00-0)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• Performing Organization:
  University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Industrial Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Guidelines and Recommendations
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2ad8ad2da53e09d3729a2e0b856a5ea27917bf83be43e0868deec4d8e99d9b0ea2bd895272d52bcb1949e47a607a7b53ed1ba4d2ceb5140ce5afddbf983a55c0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19382/cdc_19382_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.53 MB ]