Employee Health and Safety in the Lithographic Printing Industry

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Guide identifying the hazards commonly encountered by workers employed in the lithographic industry. It also tells how workers can be protected by the right combination of engineering controls, personal protective equipment, and work practices. Some of the requirements for protecting the employees against hazards are the responsibility of the employer, such as ventilation, machine guarding, and measuring the concentration of chemicals in the air. Described in detail are mechanical, fire, chemical, noise, and light hazards encountered in the litho industry. Plant maintenance and custodial operations, and measures identifying and remedying health and safety hazards are outlined. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Ergonomics Fires Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Health Printing Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Air-quality-control Environmental-engineering Fire-prevention Industrial-hygiene Industrial-plants Noise-control Printing-industry Safety-engineering Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DTS - Division of Technical Services
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-72
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00075155
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB-276673
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: 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. 77-223, 1977 Aug; :1-72
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• 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:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209318/cdc_209318_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.43 MB ]