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Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on the Certification of Personal Protective Technologies, Catharyn T. Liverman, Howard J. Cohen
When you purchase a product, you expect it to work. Construction workers on high-rise buildings need to be confident that their safety harnesses will arrest a fall. Firefighters need to know that their gloves and other protective equipment can withst
Autor:
Howard J, Cohen, Jeffrey S, Birkner
Publikováno v:
Clinics in Chest Medicine. 33:783-793
Respiratory protection is used as a method of protecting individuals from inhaling harmful airborne contaminants and in some cases to supply them with breathable air in oxygen-deficient environments. This article focuses on the use and types of perso
Publikováno v:
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 3:S203-S210
The respiratory protective equipment necessary to protect health care workers from the novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus is not known. The knowledge gap created by this unanswered question has caused substantial debate and controversy on a
Autor:
Howard J. Cohen
Publikováno v:
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 5:D43-D47
The Donald E. Cummings Memorial Award was established in 1943 as a tribute to AIHA's third president. It is given for outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of the industrial hygie...
Autor:
Howard J. Cohen, Eugene M. White
Publikováno v:
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 3:501-507
NIOSH published a recommended exposure limit (REL) for metalworking fluids (MWF) in 1998 that was designed to prevent respiratory disorders associated with these industrial lubricants. The REL of 0.4 mg/m(3) (as a time-weighted average for up to 10 h
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 44:312-320
Background Occupational health and pollution prevention, although conceptually linked by the common goals of preventing exposure to toxic materials and lowering risk functions, have been largely confined to separate patterns of practice and professio
Publikováno v:
Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. 18:591-596
This article describes interferences encountered in a variety of occupational settings during industrial hygiene surveys of diesel particulate material (DPM) using the NIOSH 5040 Method. The method yields time-weighted-average measurements of element
Publikováno v:
AIHA Journal. 64:260-268
This study, undertaken initially to understand apparent differences between two recent reports of diesel particulate matter (DPM) inside school buses, involved side-by-side comparisons of two different methods for measuring ambient and occupational e
Publikováno v:
Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 52:1258-1262
A field study was undertaken to evaluate the suitability of the aethalometer, an instrument capable of performing near-real-time measurement of low-level (10–1000 ng/m3) airborne combustion products, for vehicular and workplace monitoring. Several
Autor:
Linfield C. Brown, David M. Gute, Anne Marie C. Desmaris, Howard J. Cohen, Richard T. Enander, Richard Missaghian
Publikováno v:
AIHAJ. 63:741-749
Surface preparation activities conducted during automotive refinishing present several potential human health and environmental risks. This study examines the chemical composition of vehicle sanding dust and the prevalence of methylene chloride use a