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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
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