Limited research on environmental influences on cancer; conflicting or inadequate exposure measurement, assessment, and classification; and ineffective regulation of environmental chemical and other hazardous exposures are key issues for reducing environmental cancer risk, according to the report from the Presidents Cancer Panel, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now published May 6, 2010, according to a post on ORC Worldwide’s web site, written by Dee Woodhull. ORC Worldwide is a Washington-based environmental health and safety consultancy.
From a post on ORC Worldwide’s web site, written by Dee Woodhull, CIH: “EPA found in 1985 that methylene chloride (MC) is a probable human carcinogen and poses a long-term danger to human health. OSHA published its final MC Standard (29 CFR 1910.1052) on January 10, 1997, reducing the permissible exposure limit from an 8-hour-time-eighted-average (TWA) of 500 parts per million (ppm) to 25 ppm. OSHA has now completed a review of the MC standard, pursuant to the Regulatory Flexibility Act and Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review. The review was conducted to determine whether the MC Standard has functioned as intended, whether it could be simplified or improved to reduce the regulatory burden on small businesses, or whether it is no longer needed and should be rescinded.”
The United Auto Workers Union (UAW) has revived a petition first made to OSHA in October, 1993, calling for an immediate action to promulgate a comprehensive standard for occupational exposure to metal-working fluids (MWF), according to a post on the ORC Worldwide website. ORC Worldwide is a Washington-based environmental health and safety consultancy.
With a new application where hexavalent chromium is a present risk — and new regulations about to take effect — Ultra turns to PAPRs to protect its welders.
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