Technology News 509: A New Method to Clean Dust from Soiled Work Clothes

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The new NIOSH-developed clothes-cleaning process has been shown to be much more effective in removing dust from a worker's clothes than the methods currently used by workers. This process uses a compressed air nozzle manifold to blow dust from the worker's clothes in an enclosed booth. Since the air exhausted by the dust collector causes the booth to be under negative pressure, no dust escapes to contaminate the work environment or other workers. Test results showed that the NIOSH process cleaned the work clothes 10 times faster and removed up to 50% more dust than the single air hose or vacuuming methods. The average cleaning time with the NIOSH technique was less than 20 seconds. The cost of this clothes-cleaning system was approximately $3,000, excluding the cost of the exhaust ventilation component. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Mining Occupational Health Protective Clothing Safety Silicon Dioxide
• Keywords:
  Dust-control; Dust-control-equipment; Dust-exposure; Mining-equipment; Respirable-dust; Mining-industry; Clothing; Work-clothing; Dusts; Silica-dusts; Occupational-health
• Source:
  Pittsburgh, PA: 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. 2005-136, (TN 509), 2005 May; :1-2
• Series:
  Mining Publications   ; NIOSH Numbered Publications  
• Subseries:
  Technology News
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2005136
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026715
• Contact Point Address:
  NIOSH Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
• Email:
  ACecala@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2b2b3d2821250a24ba3644f686f9c46e1ca205b5b1057eb31f8ab1880a081d477cbc68c32a504f96d818535871a68626e884dfc69a91a328d0a80f772e84d749
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5940/cdc_5940_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 648.04 KB ]