Protecting Workers Who Use Cleaning Chemicals

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• Corporate Authors:
  Occupational Safety and Health Administration ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Workplaces, such as schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants and manufacturing plants, use cleaning chemicals to ensure the cleanliness of their buildings.Workers who handle these products include building maintenance workers, janitors and housekeepers. Some cleaning chemicals can be hazardous, causing problems ranging from skin rashes and burns to coughing and asthma. Many employers are switching to green cleaning products because they are thought to be less hazardous to workers and the environment. This INFOSHEET provides information to employers on practices to help keep workers safe when working with cleaning chemicals, including green cleaning products. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Eye Eye Foreign Bodies Irritants Lung Diseases Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Sense Organs Skin Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Cleaning-compounds Eye-irritants Eye-protection Eye-protective-equipment Gloves Household-bleach Lung-disorders Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-clothing Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-irritants Respiratory-system-disorders Safety-equipment Safety-glasses Safety-practices Skin-irritants Surveillance-programs Training

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2012126
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• 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:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041092
• 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. 2012-126, 2012 Jul; :1-4
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ammonia (CAS RN 7664-41-7) ; Chlorine (CAS RN 7782-50-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ad2bf05d0cfecd2d327ca4fe0188e2dde6949a9dec77ee4450adfcb86c7269738a3a48a11cb7e0b3012b7ac560febfadf356e9d0442ba3b70aa143486751a30f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210012/cdc_210012_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 126.21 KB ]