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Environmental Exposure to Airborne Contaminants in the Nickel Industry, 1976-1977.

PB287371

Publication Date	1978
Personal Author	Donaldson, H. M.; Cassady, M.; Jones, J. H.
Page Count	38
Abstract	The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted an industry-wide study of three different nickel processing operations. Since arsenic and crystalline silica were found in the plants surveyed and they have been implicated as either co-carcinogens for development of lung cancer or as causative agents for fibrotic lung disease, exposures to these and other metals as well as nickel were evaluated. Almost all of the environmental concentrations of airborne nickel in the plants met the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard of 1 mg Ni/cu m. Plant A was also in most cases, well below the current American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Threshold Limit Values (ACGIH-TLV) recommendations of 0.1 mg Ni/cu m. However, in none of the plants were exposures in the range of the NIOSH recommended standard of 0.015 mg/cu m.
Keywords	Nickel Environmental surveys Metals Monitoring Standards Concentration(Composition) Exposure Contaminants Tables(Data) Sampling Smelting Refining Carcinogens Arsenic Silicon dioxide Lung Malignant neoplasms Pulmonary neoplasms National government Air sampling Occupational safety and health Toxic substances Maximum permissible exposure level National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Threshold limit values
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	57Y - Toxicology 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine 68G - Environmental Health & Safety 68A - Air Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH. Div. of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Technical rept.
NTIS Issue Number	197904

Environmental Exposure to Airborne Contaminants in the Nickel Industry, 1976-1977.

Environmental Exposure to Airborne Contaminants in the Nickel Industry, 1976-1977.
PB287371

Publication Date	1978
Personal Author	Donaldson, H. M.; Cassady, M.; Jones, J. H.
Page Count	38
Abstract	The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducted an industry-wide study of three different nickel processing operations. Since arsenic and crystalline silica were found in the plants surveyed and they have been implicated as either co-carcinogens for development of lung cancer or as causative agents for fibrotic lung disease, exposures to these and other metals as well as nickel were evaluated. Almost all of the environmental concentrations of airborne nickel in the plants met the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard of 1 mg Ni/cu m. Plant A was also in most cases, well below the current American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists Threshold Limit Values (ACGIH-TLV) recommendations of 0.1 mg Ni/cu m. However, in none of the plants were exposures in the range of the NIOSH recommended standard of 0.015 mg/cu m.
Keywords	Nickel Environmental surveys Metals Monitoring Standards Concentration(Composition) Exposure Contaminants Tables(Data) Sampling Smelting Refining Carcinogens Arsenic Silicon dioxide Lung Malignant neoplasms Pulmonary neoplasms National government Air sampling Occupational safety and health Toxic substances Maximum permissible exposure level National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Threshold limit values
Source Agency	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NTIS Subject Category	57Y - Toxicology 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine 68G - Environmental Health & Safety 68A - Air Pollution & Control
Corporate Authors	National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH. Div. of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Technical rept.
NTIS Issue Number	197904