Publications

NIOSH Publications and Products

NIOSH Publications and Products Web site: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pubs.html

• Alerts briefly present new information about occupational illnesses, injuries, and deaths. Alerts urgently request assistance in preventing, solving, and controlling newly identified occupational hazards.
• Criteria Documents are developed and recommended by NIOSH for preventing disease and hazardous conditions in the workplace. The recommendations are then transmitted as formal publications to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor for use in promulgating legal standards.
• CIBs review and evaluate new and emerging information about occupational hazards.
• Databases and Information Resources is a collection of NIOSH databases and information resources, which includes the International Chemical Safety Cards, the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards, NIOSHTIC-2, and many more.
• Federal Register Notices are the official daily publications for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.
• Fire Fighter Program contains reports and publications on firefighter injuries and fatalities. The NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) programs interested users with access to the full text of hundreds of fatality investigation reports.
• Hazard Controls (HCs) / Hazard IDs (HIDs):
  

  HCs are a brief 1-2 page, user-friendly document that describe control techniques that have been documented to substantially reduce hazardous exposures to workers in a particular application/industry process.

  HIDs are a brief 1-2 page, user-friendly document that summarize results of NIOSH studies at a specific worksite, that identify new or current health and safety hazards, and offer the best recommendations for control or prevention.

• HHEs are field investigations of possible health hazards in the workplace, conducted under the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, which authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, following a written request from employees, authorized representative of employees, or employers, to determine whether any substance normally found in the place of employment has potentially toxic effects in such concentrations as used or found.
• NMAM is a collection of methods for sampling and analysis of contaminants in workplace air, and in the blood and urine of workers who are occupationally exposed. NMAM includes chapters on quality assurance, sampling, portable instrumentation, etc.
• Mining Safety and Health Research site contains thousands of publications from 1995 to the present in a searchable database in bibliographic format, and includes abstracts.
• Press Releases are HHS, CDC, and NIOSH Updates from the Director's Office. They describe important announcements of research summaries, workshops, conferences, new programs and major news events.
• Software is a list of NIOSH-developed software.
• Video (NIOSH) programs can be ordered from the NIOSH Publications Office, downloaded, or viewed online.
• Workplace Solutions series offers easy-to-understand, easy-to-access, and easy-to-use recommendations that turn the results of NIOSH research into occupational safety and health practice.

OSHA Publications and Products

OSHA Publications and Products Web site: http://www.osha.gov/pls/publications/pubindex.list