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Mélanges D'Hydrocarbures En Milieu De Travail, Daniel Drolet, Nicole Goyer

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Les hydrocarbures obtenus par la distillation du pétrole constituent un groupe de solvants utilisés fréquemment en milieu de travail (peinture, imprimerie, nettoyage à sec, etc.). Ils peuvent être classés en différentes catégories selon leur hauteur de sortie (ou point d'ébullition) dans les tours à distillation des raffineries. Bien qu'il y ait plusieurs classes d'hydrocarbures, trois classes seulement sont régimentées au Québec: le solvant de caoutchouc, le naphta de fabrication de vernis et de peinture VMP, et le solvant Stoddard. L'analyse chromatographique des hydrocarbures complexes implique à la fois des problèmes d'ordre technique et d'interprétation des résultats. En effet, il est …

Bilan Des Études Portant Sur L'Oxyde D'Éthylène, Diane Berthelette, Lucien Lewys Abenhaim

Rapports de recherche scientifique

L'oxyde d'éthylène est un produit inflammable et explosif dont les propriétés Irritantes et toxiques sont connues. Au cours des cinq dernières années plusieurs études ont permis de mieux connaitre les effets nocifs pouvant résulter de l'exposition à ce produit.

Le National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (36) et l'American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hyglenists (2) considèrent que ces recherches apportent des arguments scientifiques suffisants pour que l'oxyde d'éthylène soit maintenant considéré comme un produit potentiellement carcinogène. Ils recommandaient par conséquent que la norme relative à la concentration moyenne admissible fixée à 50 ppm en 1971, soit réévaluée d'une part …

Occupational Injury Control Through System Safety Analysis - A Comparative Study, Victor Aeby

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The study was a comparative retrospective analysis to determine the effectiveness of MORT (Management Oversight and Risk Tree), a system safety method, in reducing the incidence and cost of occupational injuries occurring at the Tennessee Wheel and Rubber Company. Implementation of MORT on April 1, 1974 at the plant facility allowed for statistical comparison of accidents between the time periods April 1, 1972 through March 31, 1974 and April 1, 1974 through March 31, 1976.

Data on injury incidence were gathered by researching the company's worker compensation reports. Cost figures for injuries were drawn from computer printouts provided by the …

Toward Meaningful Protection Of Worker Health And Safety, Joseph A. Page

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In the annals of job health and safety, 1974 was a signal year. It produced an epidemic of occupational liver cancer associated with vinyl chloride disclosure of a plan to soft-pedal federal regulation of industrial hazards in return for contributions to the 1972 Nixon reelection campaign, and the publication of a brace of exposes decrying the human toll taken by workplace perils. These events furnish hard evidence that the bright hopes raised by passage of the landmark Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 remain far from fulfillment.

In the search for reasons for this ostensible failure, two books present …

Incidence Of Staphylococcus Aureus On Fomentation Covers, Yvonne Badgley Mcdaniel

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study was to ascertain whether fomentation covers were contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus prior to being placed on a patient receiving a hydrotherapy treatment.

From a review of literature on the subject of the Staphylococcus aureus organism and from studies of hospital-acquired staphylococcal infection it appeared that: (1) researches had used various techniques for making cultures from fabrics, (2) the Staphylococcus aureus cultures may react in varying ways to the laboratory tests making the classification somewhat difficult, (3) the problem of hospital-acquired staphylococcal cross-infection was present, (4) the role played by the environment in hospital-acquired infections was controversial, and (5) …

Unsuspected Industrial Poisonings Discovered In Small Industries, Elston L. Belknap

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

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