Appendix 1: The Workers' Family Protection Act: 29 U.S.C. 671a: Section 209 of the Fire Administration Authorization Act of 1992: Public Law 102-522

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• Alternative Title:
  Worker's Family Protection Act (29 U.S.C. 671a)
• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Information was gathered from Federal and State health, labor, and environmental agencies, as well as from groups with special concerns regarding the incidences of impaired health and safety to family members resulting from exposure to hazardous substances found at the workplace of another family member. Workers have been found to inadvertently carry home hazardous materials on their clothes, skin, hair, tools, and in their vehicles. Some of the resulting health effects reviewed in this report include chronic beryllium (7440417) disease, asbestosis and mesothelioma, lead (7439921) poisoning, neurological effects and mental retardation caused by lead exposure, deaths and neurological effects from pesticide exposure, chemical burns from caustic substances, chloracne and other effects from chlorinated hydrocarbon exposure, neurological effects from mercury (7439976), abnormal development from estrogenic substances, asthmatic and allergic reactions from dusts, liver angiosarcoma from arsenic (7440382), dermatitis from fibrous glass, status epilepticus from chemical exposure, and diseases from infectious agents. Preventive measures which were found to be effective when used in the workplace or at home were noted. Also discussed were procedures for decontaminating home and clothing, applicable Federal and State laws, responses to incidents of workers' home contamination, and recommendations for future research and education. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Communicable Diseases Dust Family Hazardous Substances Metals Metals, Heavy Occupational Health Poisoning Protective Clothing Safety

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• Keywords:
  Health-hazards; Work-clothing; Families; Toxic-materials; Mineral-dusts; Industrial-hygiene; Agricultural-chemicals; Infectious-diseases; Heavy-metal-poisoning; Disease-transmission; Hazardous-materials
• Source:
  Washington, DC: 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. 95-123, 1995 Sep; :1-306
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Legislation
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  28 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00230309
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB96-192000
• CAS Registry Number:
  Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2) ; Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Mercury (CAS RN 7439-97-6)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ee0565758699fb61b920b64c6914400257236870e9484cb1ae26f31b48e988d9341c81bfa5a04cd0220420fdaa8b5cacc1d653afd62afd4c9eeaa17bb668b6c8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6334/cdc_6334_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.08 MB ]