Protect Your Family: Reduce Contamination at Home

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This pamphlet summarized a study of documented cases of contamination of worker's homes from 28 countries and 36 states in the United States. Contaminants found that caused health effects among families of workers included beryllium (7440417), asbestos (1332214), lead (7439921), mercury (7439976), arsenic (7440382), cadmium (7440439), pesticides, caustic farm products, chlorinated hydrocarbons, estrogenic substances, asthmagens and allergens, fibrous glass, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (121824) (RDX), and infectious agents. Routes of exposure include washing of worker's clothing with the family laundry; items carried home from work such as bags, rags, metal drums, and scrap lumber; passing dangerous materials to family members from the hands of the worker; work being done on the home property as in a cottage industry; use of agricultural products on the farm/homestead; and family members visiting the workplace. Several preventive measures were listed for workers employed away from their homes and for workers who take some of their work to their homes for completion. Steps for decontamination were listed, and existing federal laws were noted and their implications defined. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Communicable Diseases Dust Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Family Hazardous Substances Lead Lead Poisoning Mercury Occupational Health Poisoning Safety

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Environmental-contamination Environmental-exposure Families Hazardous-materials Infectious-diseases Lead-poisoning Mercury-poisoning Mineral-dusts
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB97125
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet or Booklet
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00238176
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-207104
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 97-125, 1997 Jan; :1-15
• CAS Registry Number:
  Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2) ; Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4) ; Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7) ; Cadmium (CAS RN 7440-43-9) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Mercury (CAS RN 7439-97-6) ; RDX (CAS RN 121-82-4)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d6d270766bf4e85ce75b99f2a851428132c0279c426af4af0bf929e04d2d2cb4b769b27571f824398ce61aea3cb66e9e6c63dd64ff1402c77fe24740133dfc61
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209721/cdc_209721_DS1.pdf
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