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NIOSH Information
The Office for Research Safety is providing links to information on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Web sites. These are HTML versions of NIOSH publications. NIOSH currently offers easy access to this information on CD-ROM. The database set is listed as publication 99-115 (S/N 017-033-00491-9) on the NIOSH Publications Web site. You can reach the NIOSH Publications office by:
- FAX: 513-533-8573
- Telephone: 1-800-356-4674 (1-800-35-NIOSH)
- E-mail: Pubstaft@cdc.gov
- Mail:
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On-line NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG)
According to NIOSH, "The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards is intended as a source of general industrial hygiene information for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals." Hazard and other physical data information is provided for 677 chemicals in tabular form. The "Introduction" link on the page listed above gives a great deal of information about the Guide and how to use it. The other links on this page give you a choice of loading several sizes of HTML versions of the indices to the Guide. The indices bring you to HTML table versions of chemical hazards for printing and viewing.
This page takes you to two possible indices of permissible exposure limits (PEL) as determined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 1988 from the Air Contaminants Project. They are a supplement to the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards and include more detailed information than the cards in the Guide.
This link takes you to the introductory Web page of the International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSC). The ICSC project is intended to provide summaries of essential health and safety information on what the participating agencies hope will be approximately 2000 chemicals. The "Descriptive Note" link explains more about the project. The U.S. National Version link explains that NIOSH has modified the cards to include more U.S.-specific information. There you can choose to view or print the HTML versions of these cards. The HTML cards also link to supplementary information (e.g., first aid procedures or published medical tests). There are also links on the introductory page to the cards in Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili.
This database is an adjunct to the International Chemical Safety Cards listing specific published medical tests when possible for the chemicals. The three indices list the chemical links that show HTML tables of editors/authors, the medical tests published in the literature, and full reference information.
The link above takes you to an HTML version of the NIOSH publication "Documentation of Immediately Dangerous To Life and Health Concentrations." According to NIOSH, "the IDLH values are intended by NIOSH to be used as respirator selection criteria and are found in the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards." The link above takes you to the introductory page, the actual information is found in the links listed under "Contents" further down the page.
NIOSH intends the "Recommendations for Chemical Protective Clothing" as a companion to the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards. NIOSH provides recommendations for skin protection from toxic, corrosive, frostbite and other potential hazards. The alphabetical links at the bottom of the page take you to HTML tables for printing and viewing. The twenty-five tables (no J) list the chemicals alphabetically with recommendations and each table includes a list of abbreviations and explanations.
The link above takes you to the DOT site advertising the 2000 Emergency Response Guidebook. The guidebook is intended as an immediate reference for emergency workers in an incident involving hazardous materials. On this site you will find directions on obtaining a paper copy of the guide and Adobe Acrobat Reader® files for viewing and printing. The full Reader® version of the Guidebook is 1.7 megabytes and 383 pages.
NIOSH defines NMAM as "a collection of methods for sampling and analysis of contaminants in workplace air, and in the blood and urine of workers who are occupationally exposed." The link above takes you to the explanatory page which gives you two options: Ordering NMAM or viewing and printing the analytical methods using Adobe Acrobat Reader®. There are also Adobe Acrobat® files of the chapters and front materials from the NMAM.
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