Final report on the "behavioral evaluation of workers exposed to the solvent used in spray painting."

Details

• Personal Author:
  Albers JW ; Fine, Lawrence J. ; Goldberg J ; Langoff GD ; Maizlish N ; Smith PJ ; Whitehead LW
• Description:
  The concern about potential solvent mixture neurotoxicity prompted this study of the behavior of 150 workers exposed to solvent mixtures along with 150 matched comparisons. The participants worked in four production facilities using solvents in painting, gluing, or printing operations. A behavioral test battery was developed to measure a variety of cognitive and psychomotor functions. The results did not support the original hypothesis that workers chronically exposed to mixtures of hydrocarbon solvents below the current threshold limit values would show poorer performance on a test battery than nonexposed subjects. Differences did exist in the frequency of symptoms, measures of peripheral nerve function as ascertained on a semiquantitative physical examination, and in the test battery. When confounding factors such as sex, age, examiner, alcohol use, or facility effect were considered, these differences ceased to be significant. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Inhalation Exposure Nervous System Nervous System Diseases Occupational Health Paint Printing Safety Solvents
• Keywords:
  Nervous system disorders; Painters; Paint spraying; Construction workers; Solvent vapors; Organic solvents; Inhalants; Printing-industry
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Genre:
  Final Contract Report
• Place as Subject:
  Michigan ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-218
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00197242
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB84181536
• Citation:
  University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1983 Jun; :1-218
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1983
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/243024/cdc_243024_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]