NIOSH Testimony on Cotton Dust Standard by E. J. Baier, April 1977.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony contains information on the effects of cotton dust exposure. Recommendations for medical surveillance, environmental control, environmental monitoring, informing the worker, work practices, and respiratory protection for workers exposed to cotton dust have been transmitted to OSHA as a Draft Technical Standard under the NIOSH/OSHA Standards Completion Program. Chronic respiratory disease arising from working in textiles was first documented in 1705 in hemp workers. A new era in the investigation into respiratory disease among cotton textile workers began in 1950 with the rediscovery of byssinosis while studying increased mortality among textile workers. The definition of byssinosis is discussed and the grading scheme for the severity of the disease is delineated. The importance of environmental sampling, medical surveillance, respirators, work practices, and the posting of warning signs regarding the dangers of cotton dust are reviewed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Dust Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Textile Industry
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Testimony; Baier-E-J; Textile-workers; Dust-exposure; Plant-dusts; Dust-inhalation; Respiratory-system-disorders; Cotton-dust;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-23
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196259
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91152868
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1977 Apr:23 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, 23 pages
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/242986/cdc_242986_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]