Interim guidance for protecting workers from livestock and poultry wastewater and sludge during and after floods

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; United States. Department of Agriculture
• Description:
  Farms, animal production sites, and processing plants contain animal waste. Waste or manure can be located in places such as animal housing, open lots, pastures, manure treated fields, sediment basins, above ground storage structures, underground storage tanks, lagoons, storage ponds, and manure drying or composting sites. Workers may be at risk of exposure to animal diseases that may be passed from animals through contact with workers’ broken skin, eyes, nose, mouth, or mucous membranes. Diseases may spread from contact with animals’ infected body fluids or tissues and from contaminated water or materials. Manure and wastewater may also contain additional hazardous compounds such as chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, metals, and allergens. In addition workers may encounter musculoskeletal hazards (e.g., lifting heavy animals and objects), physical hazards (e.g., unsafe buildings and structures, sharp objects, heat, noise), chemical hazards (e.g., fuels, fertilizers, pesticides, cleaning agents, hydrogen sulfide) and allergens (e.g., latex and animal saliva, skin, urine).
  
  C296664-A
  
  IG-Livestock-Workers-9-23-18.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Floods Livestock Occupational Exposure Poutry Sewage Swine Waste Water
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  4 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5e2fdf665c913911cc896b8e7ba40c43650b983ef37ab050e38d51f438d280a97e57b5c70242dde4b0f0c420abf9f732d43b4030a82c4da17be3b98c78fb30d1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/59235/cdc_59235_DS1.pdf
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