Carbon Monoxide Dangers 1930 US Bureau of Mines

Products appear in the exhaust, including carbon monoxide, hydrogen, aldehydes, and unburned hydrocarbons. In addition, oxides of sulfur occur in exhaust depending on the amount of sulfur in the fuel, and lead compounds are present in a form determined by the additives used in the fuel. Because of tremendous differences in operating conditions, condition of cars, and other factors, it is difficult to give representative analyses. For an interesting report on vehicle exhaust hazards and air pollution, read the 1959 article, Health Hazards of Automobile Exhaust, at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1929251/pdf/pubhealthreporig00126... .
For a valuable and enlightening guide to how industrial hygiene can be helpful to workers in identifying, evaluating and recommending controls for health hazards on the job, read PLAYING INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE TO WIN (2011) written by Eileen Senn, MS available at http://nycosh.org/uploads/control_of_hazards/Playing%20IH%20To%20Win%20Winter... . This is clipped from the 1979 film Industrial Hygiene Surveying: Equipment and Techniques produced by the Department of Defense. The entire, two part film, is available at the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.69153 thanks to the work of the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Exhaust
• fume
• hazardous
• work
• workplace
• occupational
• industrial
• hygiene
• monitoring
• OSHA
• NIOSH
• HSE
• ILO
• WHO
• survey
• investigation
• inspection
• sampling
• testing
• instrument
• PEL
• REL
• TLV
• exposure
• chemical
• air
• breathing
• zone
• materials
• toxic
• worker
• ventilation
• motor
• pool
• car
• truck
• vehicle
• carbon
• monoxide
• oxide
• sulfur
• hydrocarbon
• lead
• aldehyde
• health
• hazard