NIOSH Testimony on Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response by R. A. Lemen, November 23, 1987.

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony concerns the response of NIOSH to requests from OSHA for information on the following issues: qualifications for hazardous waste site instructors; certification of training; the NIOSH definition of immediately dangerous to life and health; on/site chemical resistance test methods; alternatives to ammonia for testing totally encapsulating suits; and the hierarchy of exposure limits. Also included in this testimony is information concerning recommended guidelines for determining a person's medical suitability to wear respiratory protective equipment, differences between the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists threshold limit values and the NIOSH recommended limit values, and recommended language for the OSHA proposed rule. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Industrial Waste Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Radiation Respiratory Protective Devices Safety Waste Management
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Testimony; Lemen-R-A; Waste-disposal; Industrial-wastes; Hazardous-materials; Radioactive-wastes; Personal-protective-equipment; Respirators; Occupational-safety-programs;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-37
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196248
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91151282
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1987 Nov:37 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1988
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, 37 pages, 69 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/242980/cdc_242980_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]