Industrial hygiene survey at Westinghouse, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Donaldson, Harry M. ; Wolf F ; Donaldson, Harry M. ; Wolf F
• Description:
  The Westinghouse electric meter production facility (SIC-3613) in Raleigh, North Carolina was surveyed from August 11 to 15, 1975. The one building facility employed 728 production workers and 430 management and staff personnel. The company employed a corporate industrial hygienist, a director of safety, a part time physician and two nurses. A safety policy committee met 2 or 3 times a year and foremen had safety enforcement responsibility in their areas. The company supplied safety glasses and gloves and employees bought safety shoes. Exhausts of paint fumes into room air, supply air to a spray booth taken from a painting area, and easily dislodged nozzles on an oil mist lubricator were noted as possible sources of exposure. Respirable dust concentrations ranged from 0.08 milligram per cubic meter (mg/CuM) dust. The concentrations did not exceed the standard for nuisance dust of 5mg/CuM. The authors recommend exterior discharge for all exhaust ventilation systems containing oil mist from trimming operations, intake of outside air for the metalizing operation, and adequate makeup air during cold weather. The authors conclude that the facility is in excellent condition from a health and safety standpoint. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no pdf
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Dust Occupational Health Paint Preceptorship Safety Staff Development Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Survey; Field-Study; Region-4; Health-surveys; Workplace-studies; Air-contamination; Control-methods; Occupational-health-programs; Dust-analysis; Dust-exposure; Paints
• Series:
  Industry Wide Field Studies   ; Industry Wide Field Studies  
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00111628
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB82151218
• 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, IWS 30-16, 1976 Feb; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3613 - Switchgear and switchboard apparatus - (SIC)
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/233320/cdc_233320_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]