Skin Problems in Construction: Hazard Alert

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  Some construction materials can cause serious problems if they get on your skin. Some burns can even put you in the hospital. Sometimes you can get a skin infection that can risk your life. Or some of the materials can go through your skin and make you sick. Sometimes you can become allergic to a material at work and get skin problems. They can be so bad that you cannot work - even with tiny amounts of the material. In that case, you may have to change careers. Some materials that can hurt your skin: wet cement, some cement dusts, lime metalworking fluids, some paints, adhesives, epoxy resins, alcohols, toluene, turpentine, xylene. These materials can cause red, itchy, scaly skin or painful burns, ulcers, and rashes like acne - all known as contact dermatitis. Also, pitch and coal tar can cause skin cancer. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adhesives Burns Chemistry Coal Coal Tar Communicable Disease Control Communicable Diseases Construction Industry Dermatitis Dust Epoxy Resins Hypersensitivity Metals Neoplasms Occupational Health Paint Safety Safety Management Skin Skin Absorption Skin Diseases Toluene Workplace Xylenes

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• Keywords:
  Alcohols Allergic-dermatitis Allergic-reactions Allergies Cancer Cements Chemical-burns Chemical-hypersensitivity Chemical-reactions Coal-tar Coal-tar-pitch Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Disease-control Disease-prevention Dusts Epoxy-resins Infection-control Injuries Injury-prevention Metalworking-fluids Paints Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Skin-absorption Skin-cancer Skin-diseases Skin-disorders Skin-exposure Skin-infections Skin-irritants Toluenes Turpentines Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039612
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2003 Dec; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• CAS Registry Number:
  Calcium oxide (CAS RN 1305-78-8) ; Toluene (CAS RN 108-88-3) ; Xylene (CAS RN 1330-20-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Skin problems in construction: hazard alert
• End Date:
  20050630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a3deea155f58a2e03f7b4125262e1e044421ce0074bcdfba0713fcd97960b93cb9ece3bfcb4cfc9b20d19d2ee1078e14a470c2579f4605ae98079465e7027dfd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213099/cdc_213099_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 33.18 KB ]