Criteria for a Recommended Standard… Occupational Exposure to Carbon Tetrachloride

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Recommendations for a standard designed to protect the health and safety of workers exposed to carbon tetrachloride up to 10 hours per day, 40 hours weekly over a working lifetime. Occupational exposure to carbon tetrachloride is defined as exposure above half the time- weighed average environmental limits. Topic covered include: concentrations of carbon tetrachloride in the workplace air; sampling and analysis; periodic medical examinations; warning signs; personal protective equipment and clothing; work practices; biologic effects of exposure, including epidemiology, animal toxicity, and correlation of exposure and effect; environmental data and biologic evaluation of exposure; sampling procedure; analytical procedure. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Chlorine Compounds Environmental Monitoring Hydrocarbons Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Safety Safety Management Solvents Toxicology
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-measurement Chlorinated-hydrocarbons Chlorinated-methanes Exposure-limits Organic-solvents Preventive-medicine Safety-equipment Safety-measures Sampling-methods Time-dose-relationship
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB76133
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Standards
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• 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:
  1-151
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00052659
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-250424
• Citation:
  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. 76-133, 1975 Jan; :1-151
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon tetrachloride (CAS RN 56-23-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• Performing Organization:
  Agatha Corporation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7fa253c0d4b063caa142de14e05db7d00afa53e352a01ecef358b6d4ea9b927e03dc1ecdbbd1131346d62a8c4660206411a50bea6d2bafe419a3d385784c9939
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209211/cdc_209211_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 4.90 MB ]