Industrial Hygiene Walk Through Survey Report of Rockwell International, Thousand Oaks, California.

Briggs-T

NIOSH 1979 Jun:6 pages

00108666

Worker exposures to potentially harmful chemical and physical agents were determined at the Rockwell International Thousand Oaks Research Center (SIC-3674), in Thousand Oaks, California, on February 6, 1979. The survey was part of a NIOSH study of the energy technology industry. The company had no formal and industrial hygiene program. Medical services were provided by a full time nurse and a local clinic. Primary chemicals used in the photovoltaic construction processes included trichloroethylene (79016), acetone (67641), methyl-alcohol (67561), isopropyl-alcohol (67630), sulfuric-acid (7664939), hydrogen-peroxide (7722841), zinc (7440666), silver (7440224), manganese (7439965), germanium (7440564), silver-cyanide (506649), and silicon-dioxide (60676860). Processing steps were generally well controlled. Arsenic (7440382) exposure presented a possible hazard. The author concludes that equipment maintenance and cleaning may pose potential chemical exposures.

NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Survey; Field-Study; Region-9; Health-surveys; Workplace-studies; Air-contamination; Control-methods; Industrial-hygiene; Worker-health; Industrial-health-programs; IWS-68-21;

79-01-6; 67-64-1; 67-56-1; 67-63-0; 7664-93-9; 7722-84-1; 7440-66-6; 7440-22-4; 7439-96-5; 7440-56-4; 506-64-9; 60676-86-0; 7440-38-2;

19790608

1979

PB82-112780

A02

IWS-68-21

DSHEFS;

3674;

NIOSH, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, Industry Wide Studies Branch, Cincinnati, Ohio, 6 pages

CA; OH;