Health hazard assessment

California EPA, Public Health Goal for Methyl Tert Butyl Ether (MTBE) in Drinking Water, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Sacramento, CA. Available at http //www.oehha.ca.gov/ water/phg/allphgs.html, 1999. 

Facility System Safety (FSS), which is the application of system safety concepts to the facility acquisition process, has recently gained acceptance throughout the Department of Defense and most recently within the Department of Army with the conception of SAFEARMY 1990. The Army s goal is to fully integrate the total system safety, human factors, and health hazard assessments into continuous comprehensive evaluation of selected systems and facilities. The Chemical Research Development and Engineering Center (CRDEC) has mandated appropriate levels of system safety throughout the lifecycle of facility development for many reasons. These include ... 

US Environmental Protection Agency Generic Health Hazard Assessment of the Chemical Class Diisocyanates. Final Report. EPA Contract No. 68-02-3990. Washington, DC, US EPA, May 5, 1987... 

California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). 

California - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment - Education - Art Hazards. Online. Available HTTP (accessed 10 April 2003). 

Lu PC. 1992. A health hazard assessment in school arts and crafts. J Envion Pathol Toxicol Oncol 11 12-17. 

California Air Resources Board/Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Benzol a] pyrene as a Toxic Air Contaminant (1994) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment/California Environmental Protection Agency, Air Toxics Hot Spot Program Risk Assessment Guideline, Part II Technical Support Document for Describing Available Cancer Potency Factors (1998) Collins et al. (1998). 

From California Air Resources Board (1994) and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) (1998). 

Clearly, a sound evaluation of the total mutagenic/carcinogenic potencies of a complex mixture of POM emissions (e.g., diesel exhaust) should include not only the PEFs of the primary particle- and vapor-phase PAHs and PACs but also those of the mutagens formed in atmospheric reactions of precursor PAHs (see, for example, Arey et al. (1992), Lewtas (1993b), Atkinson and Arey (1994), Nielsen et al. (1996), Arey (1998a), and Section F). For examples of such formal scientific health risk assessments prepared by the State of California Air Resources Board and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, see Benzo[ ]pyrene as a Toxic Air Contaminant (CARB, 1994) and Identification of Diesel Exhaust as a Toxic Air Contaminant (CARB, 1998). 

California Environmental Protection Agency, Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Final Report, September 1997. Available from the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, 301 Capitol Mall, Second Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814 http //www.calepa. cahwnet. gov/oehha/. 

Human health hazards assessment is the process of identifying the potential effects that chemical may have on humans who are exposed to it, and of determining the levels at which these effects may occur. Human health toxicity data are compared with data from the exposure assessment module to assess human health risk in the risk characterization module. 

Chemicals risk assessment generally consists of three stages (1) hazard assessment, (2) exposure assessment and (3) risk characterization. However, REACH divides the first stage into four human health hazard assessment, physicochemical hazard assessment, environmental hazard assessment, and persistent, bioaccumulative... 

Schecter A, Gasiewicz TA. 1987a. Health hazard assessment of chlorinated dioxins and dibenzofurans contained in human milk. Chemosphere 16 2147-2154. 

State of California. 1991. Memorandum from Lauren Zeise, Reproductive and Cancer Hazard Assessment Section to Steven A. Book, Health Hazard Assessment Division. Department of Health Services, State of California, June 11, 1991. 

Review of the U.S. Navy Environmental Health Center s Health-Hazard Assessment Process (2000)... 

Reference Preliminary Technical Guidance Document, Human health hazard assessment, ECB, 2006, Chapter 3. 

Chemicals Known to the State to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, State of California Environmental Protection Agency, 2005, p.65. 

OEHHA Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment OSHA Occnpational Safety and Health Administration Osteogenic sarcoma Cancer associated with bone structures Oxidation Chemical addition of oxygen to break down pollutants or organic waste, for example, destruction of chemical substances such as cyanides, phenols, and organic sulfur compounds in sewage by bacterial and chemical means Oxidative stress Process whereby the metabolic balance of a cell is disrupted by exposure to environmental substances, resulting in accumulation of free radicals, which can damage the cell... 

Allen A. G., Baxter P. J., and Ottley C. J. (2000) Gas and particle emissions from Soufriere Hills volcano, Montserrat Wl characterization and health hazard assessment. Bull. Volcanol. 62(1), 6-17. 

When a product defect is identified, the evaluation should include a health hazard assessment by a qualified person, usually a physician. The FDA s recall policy regulations contain a suggested rubric for performing a health hazard assessment (see 21 CFR 7.41). 

California Office of Environmental and Health Hazard Assessment. Guidelines for the Safe Use of Art and Craft Materials. California Office of Environmental and Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), December 2003. 

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, has developed an inhalation reference exposure level of 50ppb (300 pgm ) based on a whole-body inhalation study in rats, 7hday, 5 days week for 6 months. The critical effects are pathological changes in the liver and kidney, with an (average experimental exposure) LOAEL of 5.3 ppm, and a total uncertainty factor of 300. 

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