The findings are in contrast to some human emergency responders who worked at the World Trade Center site, possibly due to differences between human and animal airways and differences in lung defense mechanisms, a new study concludes.
The document is intended to address scientific uncertainties about occupational exposure and toxicity issues related to asbestos fibers and other elongated mineral particles.
A blotch of black, gray, white, red, orange, yellow, blue, or violet fuzzy or slimy growth is usually the result of widespread mold growth. Besides infection and allergic reactions, excessive mold growth indoors can result in offensive, musty odors from the gases released by certain molds as they grow and die.
Olympic travelers should worry less about exotic diseases, and instead focus on preventing more mundane health problems like respiratory illness and dog bites, according to a new study by experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, which found that during the past 10 years dog bites were actually one of the more common health problems travelers face when visiting China. Other common ailments were respiratory infections, skin problems, injuries, and diarrhea.
This action affects only area source gasoline dispensing facilities with a monthly throughput of 100,000 gallons of gasoline or more.
Hospitals are finding that increasing numbers of adults who are admitted to the hospital for other conditions also have asthma, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Currently, no single personal protective ensemble can protect the wearer from exposure to all hazards.
The Indoor Air Quality Association installed newly elected directors and officers at its 11th Annual Meeting & Exposition held last week in Tampa, Fla.
EPA has not decided how to use all the authorities or tools available to it to achieve the Act's goals, and, meanwhile, it has not been reporting program results in relation to homes at risk in its performance reporting.
The director of a medical monitoring program for non-NYC responders to the 9/11 attacks said both respiratory and psychological symptoms have not lessened.
Over the next five years, EPA estimates the proposed standards to reduce the combined emissions of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions by more than 42,000 tons per year.
Study findings show that mercury emissions average about 0.2 tons per year per facility.
Tracer gas technologies are shown to be effective for nanoparticle exposure assessment.
The evacuation hood made by Elmridge Protective Products, like all SEI-certified products, must be recertified annually by the institute's contract testing lab.
NIOSH wants to know how stakeholders envision improving performance of instruments such as this personal dust monitor for miners. The input will contribute to a Nov. 13-14 DREAM workshop.
AGC of America says the new standards and rules would require California contractors to retrofit, re-power, or replace off-road diesel equipment at a cost expected to reach $13 billion.
This voluntary standard can be adopted by individual airlines or FAA and covers issues such as temperature, cabin pressure, air contaminants, ventilation rates, and more.
FirePASS's William Costello said the technology could have prevented February's Imperial Sugar Refinery explosion in Port Wentworth, Ga. OSHA chief Edwin Foulke Jr. responded with a letter clarifying the agency's denial of variance for the system.
Evidence concerning the health risks of coarse particulate matter of greater than 2.5 micrometers and 10 micrometers or less in aerodynamic diameter is limited, and findings have been mixed, researchers say.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Maple Chase Company, of Plain City, Ohio, have announced a voluntary recall of the FireX Branded 10000 Series Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarms and 12000 Series CO/Smoke Combo Alarms.