Sentences with phrase «occupational exposure limits»

Risk assessments estimate that lowering occupational exposure limits from the current to the proposed standard will reduce silicosis and lung cancer mortality to approximately one - half of the rates predicted under the current standard.

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Although PC is the most common type of cancer in men and can have a high mortality rate, evidence linking PC to specific environmental, occupational, or dietary exposures has been limited.
«One of the surprising findings from this study was that even the subjects who had extreme exposure — two subjects who went to a music festival with 16 hours of exposure at 101 to 103 dBA (A-weighted decibels), which is around 1,000 percent of the daily occupational noise limit — had only temporary changes on some functional tests, with no evidence of permanent pathology,» Le Prell said.
The levels were below the regulatory limits for occupational asbestos exposure, but were high enough to raise concerns about community exposure, says Miller.
While most urine samples collected from about 200 people in Huepetuhe last year showed mercury levels below the World Health Organization limit for occupational exposure, a few were extremely high, according to Dr. Jonh Astete, who coordinated the study by Peru's National Institute of Health.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has actually set a recommended exposure limit (REL) for paraffin wax fumes for people who work with this manufactured ingredient: 2 mg / m3 of fume exposure over an 8 - hour workday.
- Ozone is only a trace gas: 0.1 ppm is the exposure limit established by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Today, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets limits for acceptable levels of asbestos exposure in the workplace.
Occupational Diseases, including but not limited to Disease (s) related to asbestos exposure, and the complications thereof, including asbestosis and mesothelioma related to asbestos exposure; Treatment for human organ or tissue transplants and their related treatment;
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