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Criteria for a recommended standard... occupational exposure to acrylamide.

NIOSH

Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 77-112, 1976 Oct; :1-135

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/77-112/

00058479

Recommended criteria for a standard intended to protect the employees against exposure to acrylamide (79061) in the workplace for up to a 10-hour work shift, 40-hour work week, over a working lifetime. Occupational exposure to acrylamine, because of systemic effects and dermal irritation produced by contact with acrylamide, is defined as work in an area where acrylamide is stored, produced, processed, or used. The main topics covered include: recommendations for levels of acrylamide in the air including sampling and analysis; medical surveillance; personal protective equipment; informing employees of hazards from acrylamide; work practices; sanitation; monitoring and recordkeeping, biologic effects of exposure, including epidemiology, toxicology, carcinogenesis, mutagenesis, and teratogenesis; environmental data and engineering controls.

NIOSH-Criteria-Document; Occupational-health; Vinyl-monomers; Industrial-chemicals; Exposure-limits; Air-quality-control; Air-sampling; Sampling-methods; Analytical-methods; Preventive-medicine; Safety-practices; Safety-equipment; Environmental-engineering; Control-measures; Plastics

79-06-1

19761001

Numbered Publication; Criteria Document

Contract

1977

PB-273871

A08

DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 77-112; Contract-099-74-0031

DCDSD

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

MD; CA

Stanford Research Institute