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Mining Surveillance: Potentially Toxic Occupational Exposures.

PB298973

Publication Date	1979
Page Count	28
Abstract	The document has been prepared pursuant to Section 101(a)(6)(B) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977. That Section states that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare '... shall for each toxic material or harmful physical agent which is used or found in a mine, determine whether such material or agent is potentially toxic at the concentrations in which it is used or found in a mine.' The Act allows eighteen months after the date of enactment for the transmittal of the first determinations to the Secretary of Labor. Subsequent determinations will be developed and transmitted on a continuing basis after the initial report. The Act designates the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as the agency in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare responsible for health research in mines. In this first transmittal under Section 101(a)(6)(B) of the Act, NIOSH reports thirty-five agents found to occur in mines at potentially toxic concentrations.
Keywords	Toxicology Mines(Excavations) Industrial medicine Surveillance Concentration(Composition) Industrial atmospheres Air pollution Standards Exposure Toxic substances Occupational safety and health Maximum permissible exposure
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.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	197925

Mining Surveillance: Potentially Toxic Occupational Exposures.

Mining Surveillance: Potentially Toxic Occupational Exposures.
PB298973

Publication Date	1979
Page Count	28
Abstract	The document has been prepared pursuant to Section 101(a)(6)(B) of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977. That Section states that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare '... shall for each toxic material or harmful physical agent which is used or found in a mine, determine whether such material or agent is potentially toxic at the concentrations in which it is used or found in a mine.' The Act allows eighteen months after the date of enactment for the transmittal of the first determinations to the Secretary of Labor. Subsequent determinations will be developed and transmitted on a continuing basis after the initial report. The Act designates the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as the agency in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare responsible for health research in mines. In this first transmittal under Section 101(a)(6)(B) of the Act, NIOSH reports thirty-five agents found to occur in mines at potentially toxic concentrations.
Keywords	Toxicology Mines(Excavations) Industrial medicine Surveillance Concentration(Composition) Industrial atmospheres Air pollution Standards Exposure Toxic substances Occupational safety and health Maximum permissible exposure
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.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	197925