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Section 11 - XI. Authority and Signature |
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XI. Authority and Signature This document was prepared under the direction of Joseph A. Dear, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constituti...
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Section 4 - IV. Chemical Identification |
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IV. Chemical Identification Methylene chloride (MC), also called dichloromethane (DCM) [Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number 75-09-2] is a halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon with a chemical form...
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Section 3 - III. Events Leading to the Final Standard |
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III. Events Leading to the Final Standard The present OSHA standard for MC requires employers to ensure that employee exposure does not exceed 500 ppm as an 8-hour TWA, 1000 ppm as a ceiling concentr...
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Section 6 - VI. Health Effects Discussion and Determination of Final PEL |
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VI. Health Effects Discussion and Determination of Final PEL A. General Principles of Toxicology and Dose Response Introduction As long ago as the 16th century, people recognized that there is no suc...
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Section 5 - V. Health Effects |
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V. Health Effects A. Introduction The toxicology of MC is summarized below. A more detailed review of MC toxicology can be found in the NPRM [56 FR 57036]. B. Absorption and Disposition of Methylene ...
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Section 1 - I. General |
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I. General The preamble to the final rule on occupational exposure to Methylene Chloride (MC) discusses the events leading to the final rule, the physical and chemical properties of MC, the health ef...
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Section 6 - VI. Quantitative Risk Assessment |
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VI. Quantitative Risk Assessment Summary After examining all the available data, both animal and human, and both quantitative and qualitative, OSHA has concluded that MC is a multi-species, multi-sit...
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Section 8 - VIII. Summary of the Final Economic Analysis |
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VIII. Summary of the Final Economic Analysis In its Final Economic and Regulatory Flexibility Analysis document, OSHA addresses the significant issues related to technological and economic feasibilit...
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Section 9 - IX. Environmental Impact |
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IX. Environmental Impact This section analyzes the impact on the environment of changing the standard for methylene chloride (MC) to an eight-hour time weighted average (TWA8) permissible exposure li...
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Section 10 - X. Summary and Explanation of the Final Standard |
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X. Summary and Explanation of the Final Standard Introduction The final standard for occupational exposure to methylene chloride (MC) is different in several important respects from the proposed MC s...
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