Historically, the use of asbestos in steelmaking has been limited to a few applications. Due to its physical and chemical properties, asbestos was not necessary or suitable for most purposes in a s...
• Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for asbestos is 0.1 fiber per cubic centimeter of air as an eight-hour time-weighted average (TWA), with an excursion limit (EL) of 1.0 asbestos fibers...
Since asbestos was reviewed for listing in the First Annual Report on Carcinogens and by IARC, intrabron- chial instillation of chrysotile has been shown to cause pulmonary and pleural...
3 What is the permissible exposure limit for asbestos?. 4 Which asbestos operations must... III asbestos work where exposures exceed a PEL or where a negative exposure assessment has not...
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Steelindustrial hygiene records were analyzed across four time periods corresponding to changes in the OSHA permissible exposure limit (PEL) for asbestos. 68% of the samples (n = 337) were...
in 1986, the current PEL for asbestos in the workplace was established: 0.1 f/ cc [1,2]. A well-known asbestos contamination was the “Mr Fluy” incident in Australia (1960-70s), where...
airborne asbestos at or above the Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) of 0.1 fibres per cubic centimetre of air (f cm" 3 ) for OSHA and 0.2 f cm" 3 for EPA over an 8-h time-weighted average...
For decades, asbestos-containing gaskets were used in virtually every system that involved the transport of fluids or gases. Prior to the mid-1970s, some automobile exhaust systems contained asbest...