Keeping Lead at Work

Details

• Personal Author:
  Piacitelli, Gregory M. ; Whelan, Elizabeth A.
• Description:
  Exposure to lead from construction work may not be limited to the job site. Workers can inadvertently carry lead home from work on clothes, skin, hair, and tools, and in their vehicles. These 'para-occupational' or 'takehome' exposures among workers' families may cause lead poisoning in family members. This type of exposure is not a new problem. Holt cited 2 early studies of families of lead workers that were published in 1860 and 1896.1 Oliver reported in 1914 on lead poisoning in wives of house painters who washed their husbands' 'overalls' observations that resulted in a series of laws in Great Britain to protect workers' families from lead poisoning. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Dust Lead Lead Poisoning Metals, Heavy Occupational Health Paint Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Heavy-metals Lead-compounds Lead-dust Lead-poisoning Painters
• ISSN:
  8755-1985
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15-21
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024125
• Citation:
  J Prot Coat Linings 1996 Nov; 13(10):15-21
• CAS Registry Number:
  Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Protective Coatings & Linings
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:66bf67069f032f69de01e34a958452356ba130cb983f161f52365becec13f2597777d53e14bd43a7300143a837cd29bebce8dfa0a11363cb67ebb03442aa7fa4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196096/cdc_196096_DS1.pdf
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