TYPICAL OPERATIONS FOUND AT MILITARY INSTALLATION:
THEIR EXPOSURES AND CONTROLS (continued)
Operation
Exposures
Controls Needed to Control Exposure*
Powered wood
Noise, wood dusts
Hearing conservation program, locally
working
exhaust ventilated machines, washing
facilities
Mechanical general ventilation, washing
Stripping paint
Paint-stripping
facilities (if material is sprayed onto the
from furniture
compounds usually
equipment, an exhaust-ventilated booth
containing
having a face velocity of 150-fpm should
methylene chloride
be used) splash goggles
Spray-painting
Paint mists, thinner
Exhaust ventilated spray-paint booth (150
vapors
-fpm through the cross section of the
booth), NIOSH approved spray paint
respirators (NIOSH-approved airline
respirator for work in confined spaces),
washing facilities, splash goggles
Brush painting
Mechanical general ventilation, washing
thinner vapor
facilities, splash goggles
Thinner vapors
Exhaust-ventilated drying booth
Dry painted
equipment
Mechanical general ventilation in mixing
DDT, chlordane
Mixing and
area, gloves, splash goggles, washing
lindane, malathion,
dispersing
facilities, respirators
herbicides,
insecticides
warafarin
Filling fire
Sulfuric acid and its
Mechanical general ventilation, aprons,
extinguishers
mist, carbon
gloves, face shields, washing facilities,
tetrachloride
dyed carbon tetrachloride solution
Local-exhaust ventilation (300-fpm at
Lead fume,
Proof-testing small
firing area and 200 fpm at target end of
arms and
range), hearing conservation program,
products, noise
medical surveillance for lead absorption
indoor range
Laboratory fume hood (100-fpm face
Chemical analyses Standard laboratory
velocity with hood door fully open),
in laboratory
reagents and
washing facilities, splash goggles
chemical
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