Draft Document for Public Review and Comment
View and comment on the revised draft of "NIOSH Current Intelligence Bulletin: Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongated Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for Research
View the comments submitted to NIOSH Docket 099—"Asbestos and Other Mineral Fibers: A Roadmap for Scientific Research"
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) requests information on Asbestos and Other
Mineral Fibers: A Roadmap for Scientific Research, NIOSH Docket
Number NIOSH-099.
This Information is distributed solely for the purpose
of pre-dissemination peer review under applicable information
quality guidelines. It has not been formally disseminated
by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. It
does not represent and should not be construed to represent
any agency determination or policy.
Asbestos has been a highly visible issue in public health
for over three decades and abundant information is in the scientific
literature. However, in part because of the complexity
in the mineralogy, the scientific literature has various inconsistencies
and inconclusive evidence which have led to uncertainties in
identifying and applying the term asbestos for health and regulatory
purposes. This has prompted NIOSH to convene a workgroup
to investigate this matter. NIOSH is currently considering
the scientific research needs to reduce the uncertainties used
to develop worker protection policies for asbestos and other
minerals that form elongated thoracic-size particles. Subsequently,
it is expected that the products of this research will influence
how NIOSH views occupational exposure to various minerals when
there is a risk of inhalation to fiber-shaped particles. This
document is intended as one step in the process. NIOSH
intends to pursue partnerships with our Federal Agency partners
and other stakeholders to help focus the scope of the research
that can contribute to the scientific understanding of asbestos
and other mineral fibers, to fund and conduct the research
activities, and to develop and disseminate educational materials
describing results from the mineral fiber research and their
implications for occupational and public health policies and
practices.
NIOSH has the mandated responsibility of conducting research
and developing guidance on the health and safety of workers.
Workers generally have higher exposures to toxicants and hazardous
agents and greater health risks from these exposures than the
general population. Hence, risks assessed for workers are generally
not the same for the general population, and guidance for safeguarding
worker health is not necessarily pertinent to the general population.
Consequently, NIOSH’s definitions and guidance for the
workplace should not be applied to the general environment without
appropriate analyses and assessments specific for the general
environment.
| Draft
Document for Public Review and Comment |
| Asbestos and Other
Mineral Fibers: A Roadmap for Scientific Research |
NIOSHAsbestosRoadmap.pdf
(57 pages, 4,010K) |
| Supporting Materials |
| Comments of the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on The Mine Safety
and Health Administration Proposed Rule on Asbestos Exposure
Limit - October 13, 2005 |
Asbestos-msha_final
2005_proposed rule.pdf
(8 pages, 330K) |
| Comments of the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Measuring and Controlling
Asbestos Exposure - June 27, 2002 |
Asbestos-msha-final.pdf
(26 pages, 102K) |
| Testimony Before the Subcommittee
on Superfund, Toxics, Risk, and Waste Management Committee
on Environment and Public Works United States Senate - Workplace
Exposure to Asbestos, Statement of Gregory R. Wagner M.D. - June 20, 2002 |
NIOSH6-20EPWTestimony.pdf
(10 pages, 79K) |
| Testimony of Kathleen M.
Rest., Ph.D., M.P.A., Acting Director, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention on Workplace Exposure to Asbestos Before the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, United States
Senate - July 31, 2001 |
AsbestosTestimony-Passback3.pdf
(12 pages, 37K) |
| Testimony of the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on The Occupational
Safety and Health Administration's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
on Occupational Exposure to Asbestos, Tremolite, Anthophyllite,
and Actinolite - May 9, 1990 |
asbestos_testimony_May9.pdf
(18 pages, 897K) |
| Comments of the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
on Occupational Exposure to Asbestos, Tremolite, Anthophyllite,
and Actinolite - April 9, 1990 |
AsbestosTestimony_April 9_1990.pdf
(15 pages, 836K) |
| NIOSH Technical Report: Occupational
Exposure to Talc Containing Asbestos - February 1980 |
TalcContainingAsbestosTR.pdf
(121 pages, 8100K) |
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The comment period for this Docket closed at 5:00 p.m. EDT on May 31, 2007
To submit comments regarding these draft publications, please identify
them as relating to NIOSH Docket Number NIOSH-099 and
use one of these options:
- Send comments by email.
- Fax comments to the NIOSH Docket Office: 513-533-8285
- Send by Mail to:
NIOSH Mailstop: C-34
Robert A. Taft Lab.
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
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Public Meeting:
A public meeting will be held on May 4, 2007, from 9
a.m. - 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street S.W. Washington,
DC. The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss and obtain comments
on the draft document, "Asbestos and Other Mineral Fibers: A Roadmap for Scientific Research".
Public
meeting information
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