Training and Medical Surveillance Under OSHA’s EtO Standard

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• Personal Author:
  LaMontagne AD
• Description:
  The implementation of the exposure monitoring, training, and medical surveillance provision of OSHA's 1984 ethylene-oxide (75218) (EtO) standard in the hospital setting was evaluated. An attempt was made to identify strengths and weaknesses of medical surveillance, exposure monitoring, and training implementation in substance specific OSHA standards to provide for more effective practice, enforcement strategies, and policy making in these areas. The findings of the study indicated that by 1993, 98% of the hospitals using EtO had provided some form of training. By 1993, 95% of the hospitals had performed 8 hour personal monitoring, and 35% had exceeded the action level one or more times. Medical surveillance of EtO exposure was provided one or more times in 6% of the hospitals from 1985 through 1993. Reports of coverage of EtO medical surveillance issues in worker training were also strongly related with providing EtO medical surveillance, which supported the premise of OSHA that worker training is important in medical surveillance implementation. The presence of written detailed EtO medical surveillance policies was strongly and positively related to providing EtO medical surveillance. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air-quality-monitoring Grants-other Health-care-personnel Industrial-hygiene NIOSH-Grant Surveillance-programs Toxic-gases Workplace-monitoring
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00235939 ; nn:00235938
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-162341
• Citation:
  Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 1996 Jun; :1-7
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ethylene oxide (CAS RN 75-21-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19930801
• End Date:
  19960731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6430fca2b30b6c9033344bbd68b1dd6ac45727caa31c486839584cd34a5d5697636e7d99cc9b383a69b4e57374c799de9898b3a9b241a58bc245adab92725f14
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217904/cdc_217904_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 366.08 KB ]