Health and Safety Guide for the Printing Industry

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  NIOSH health and safety guidelines for the printing industry were presented. Suggestions for reducing unsafe acts and practices in print shops were given. Specific guidelines for machine guarding, environmental control, preventing fire hazards, installing and maintaining automatic sprinkler systems, and materials handling were discussed. Frequently violated regulations were considered. These included regulations pertaining to walking and working surfaces, exits and exit markings, occupational health and environmental control, hazardous materials, personal protection equipment, general environmental control, medical and first aid, fire protection, compressed air equipment, materials handling and storage, machinery and machine guarding, hand and portable power tools, welding, cutting, and brazing, and the National Electrical Code. Recordkeeping requirements were discussed. Checklists for use when making periodic inspections of printing facilities were provided. A chart for selecting appropriate types of fire extinguishers was given. Sources for obtaining additional information on topics such as floor and wall openings, mechanical power transmission, and installing portable fire extinguishers were listed. A chart demonstrating how to lift objects safely was provided. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Fires Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Printing Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Fire-prevention Industrial-safety Materials-handling Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Printing-industry Work-practices Workplace-studies
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Handbooks
• 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:
  1-74
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00186633
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB83-174037
• 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. 75-155, 1975 May; :1-74
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1975
• 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/209571/cdc_209571_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.30 MB ]