Best Practices: Engineering Controls, Work Practices, and Exposure Monitoring for Occupational Exposures to Diacetyl and 2,3-Pentanedione

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Dunn, Kevin H. ; McKernan, Lauralynn T. ; Garcia, Alberto
• Description:
  Workers who handle diacetyl or work in areas where diacetyl exposure occurs are at risk of developing severe lung disease if their exposures are not properly controlled. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed guidance in a variety of areas to reduce workers' exposures to diacetyl through engineering controls, best work practices, and techniques for monitoring airborne diacetyl exposures. Although these guidelines emphasize diacetyl, they can be applied to reduce exposures to diacetyl substitutes such as 2,3-pentanedione and other alpha-diketones. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  2,3-pentanedione Air Pollutants, Occupational Butanones Diacetyl Dust Engineering Food-Processing Industry Food Additives Food Handling Food Industry Inhalation Exposure Lung Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Particulate Matter Pentanones Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Safety Ventilation

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• Keywords:
  Food-additives; Food-processing; Food-processing-industry; Food-processing-workers; Engineering-controls; Control-technology; Ketones; Monitoring-systems; Airborne-particles; Sampling; Sampling-methods; Ventilation; Ventilation-equipment; Ventilation-systems; Particulate-dust; Particulates; Dusts; Personal-protective-equipment; Respiratory-protective-equipment; Respirators
• Source:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2015-197, 2015 Jul; :1-29
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  40 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046415
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2015-105638
• CAS Registry Number:
  Acetylacetone (CAS RN 123-54-6) ; Butanedione (CAS RN 431-03-8)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b1a567645f7071ff1f7cfe7a941be6e35630e17a0a8ef9fa593dadf5ae6546143c6f146c48d24ceaba01d16cb41941c678821d304d38f8a575d7bd1731bc4094
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32513/cdc_32513_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.59 MB ]