Important
Information for Workers Exposed to Cadmium: Your Cadmium Level |
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David
Valiante
NJ Dept. of Health and Senior
Services
- Refining and smelting
- Making nickel-cadmium
batteries
- Welding, burning,
torch-cutting, grinding or abrasive blasting surfaces that are either
coated with cadmium plating or paint containing cadmium.
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- Soldering with
silver solder or brazing (for hobbies too!)
- Making or using
pigments for coloring plastics, ceramic glazes, paints and enamels
- Electroplating
using cadmium
- Making or using
cadmium stabilizers, catalysts, or phosphors
- Cleaning up or
working wit hazardous wastes such as flyash
- Wrecking and demolition
where cadmium is present
- Making or using
colored transfers containing cadmium
- Recycling telephone
and electric cable
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Find out if the Products You
Work WIth Contain Cadmium!
CADMIUM CAN
MAKE YOU SICK:
- Cadmium
is most dangerous if it is breathed and less so if it is swallowed.
- Cadmium
dust or fumes can contaminate food, drink, cigarettes, chewing gum in
the workplace.
- High exposure
may cause nausea, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea followed by lung damage
and even death after several hours.
- Exposure over
a long time may damage your lungs or kidneys and can even cause cancer.
- Families of those
who work with cadmium can get sick from cadmium too, if
the worker takes it home in his/her clothing.
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Warning : Smoking
Cigarettes and Breathing Cadmium Dusy or Fumes Can be Very Bad for Your
Lungs.
The Cadmium Project
Occupational Health Service
CN360 Trenton, NJ
08625-0360
(609) 984-1863
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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
(OSHA) HAS RULES ON USING CADMIUM SAFELY THAT EMPLOYERS MUST FOLLOW
AN IMPORTANT
MESSAGE FROM YOUR NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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You have been
tested and cadmium has been found inside your body. |
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This pamphlet
has advice and information to help you protect yourself from cadmium.
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Your Checklist
- CHANGE
into work clothes and shoes before beginning work each day. KEEP your
street clothes and shoes in a clean place.
- WEAR a
clean, properly-fitted respirator in all work areas that have overexposure
to cadmium dust or fumes. SHAVE clean to get the best fit.
- WASH your
hands and face before you eat, drink or smoke.
- EAT, DRINK
& SMOKE only in areas free of cadmium dust and fumes.
- VACUUM
your work clothes and shoes at work before you eat, drink or smoke and
before you remove them.
- SHOWER
at work at the end of the
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Don't Let Cadmium
Get into Your Body!
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