OSHA Publication Listing

Toxic Release Inventory. Public Data Release. Appendix C. Basis of OSHA Carcinogen Listing for Individual Chemicals. 

In order to provide businesses with information about OSHA requirements, free consultation assistance is available to employers. Representatives of OSHA will assist in identifying specific and potential hazards which may exist in the workplace. They will also assist in implementing health and safety programs. To obtain a list of free OSHA publications as well as information regarding on-site consultation, interested individuals should contact ... 

Guidelines for Meat Packing Plants, OSHA Publication 3123 (revised 1993). The assessment included a check for potential exposures to communicable diseases from the slaughtered animals. The committee developed a list of questions about safety and health conditions and potential hazards in the plant. To answer these questions, the committee performed a series of walk-throughs coupled with employee interviews. 

The information in this publication is applicable to many industrial facilities not covered by process safety regulations such as the OSHA PSM Standard and the Seveso II Directive. Many reactive chemicals are not listed as regulated materials, and chemical reactivity hazards include uncontrolled chemical reactions between materials not considered as highly hazardous, or under conditions not typically encountered in storage and shipping. 

A comprehensive system to manage process hazards should also have other elements, in addition to those listed in Table 2.1. As such, Table 2.2 lists elements included in CCPS, OSHA/EPA, and Seveso II programs that are not explicitly addressed in this publication. This is not intended to imply that these other elements are unimportant. For example, all facilities handling hazardous materials and energies should engage in emergency... 

Public and labor union concerns as the result of a number of reactive incidents have caused OSHA to consider PSM revisions. One alternative OSHA identified through a petition from unions (Section 5.1.3) is to add the remaining NFPA 3 and 4 chemicals and all NFPA 1 and 2 chemicals to the PSM list. However, this approach would address less than half of the chemicals involved in the 167 incidents examined by CSB. 

Two states have successfully implemented or are considering a list-based approach to address coverage of reactive hazards that affect the public. Delaware uses the same overpressurization criterion as OSHA for determining the quantity of a listed substance that is covered New Jersey is expected to include the criterion in its revision of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA). 

Countless new publications on process safety have been written since OSHA first published its Process Safety Management Law in 1992. Independent, individual authors and various organizations, such as the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Center for Chemical Process Safety, helped write these books. Very few individuals would have the time to read each new text. The books listed below were skimmed through, read, or studied and found useful, but they may not be the best books on the market. 

The EPA and OSHA regulations [A-1, A-2, and A-3] apply to facilities from which a release of hazardous material could occur, at or above the quantities specified, as shown in bold in Table 17.A.1. Also shown are the Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health [IDLH] concentrations (for 30-minute exposure) [A-4] the Lower Flammable Limits and Heats of Combustion for combustible materials and the EPA toxic, thermal-radiation, and overpressure endpoints for public-exposure evaluations. N/L indicates that the chemical is not listed in the pertinent document. Estimated values are shown with a superscript ( ). Where no inhalation-toxicity data were available, the oral dose that caused 50% fatalities is shown only to indicate qualitatively the systemic toxicity (for example, an oral LD50 of 1000 mg/kg would be considered relatively nontoxic). The data are for pure chemicals, except where otherwise indicated, that is, without added diluents. Additional hazardous-properties information can be obtained via the Sax No. [A-6]. 

In many of the publications issued between 1990 and 2001 in which various tumorigens in tobacco smoke, particularly cigarette smoke, were listed, 2-propenenitrile (acrylonitrile) was included [Hoffmann and co-authors (1727, 1740, 1741, 1743,1744,1783), Fowles and Bates (1217), OSHA (2825)]. In 2003, these lists were discussed in detail by Rodgman (3265). 

In a response to the OSHA (2825) publication, Rodgman (3257) presented the information in Table XVII.E-1 as reasons why the benzacridines and the benzocarbazole should be removed from the list. Valid scientific reasons for deleting other listed components were also presented. 

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