NIOSH Testimony on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by R. W. Niemeier, September 13, 1991.

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony concerns the proposal of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to determine substantial and significant human exposure to manufactured chemicals. In this proposal, the EPA plans to define substantial exposure as over 1000 workers exposed. NIOSH indicates that of the 3996 chemicals currently listed in the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances for which NIOSH National Occupational Exposure Survey (NOES) data are available, only 12% are currently regulated by OSHA. Approximately 75% of these chemicals meet the 1000 or more workers exposed criterion. Of the remaining 25% for which fewer than 1000 workers are exposed, the health effects of 8% are sufficient to be regulated by OSHA. NIOSH urges the EPA to consider its alternative proposal that would result in testing for compounds for which fewer than 1000 workers are exposed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Testimony; Niemeier-R-W; Occupational-exposure; Worker-health; Industrial-safety-programs; Legislation; Regulations;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00207670
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB92206135
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1991 Sep:3 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, 3 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/243155/cdc_243155_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]