Ozone health hazards

Work with asbestos insulating board (superseded by EH 71j Ozone health hazards and precautionary measures Occupational exposure limits (annual)... 

EH38 Ozone health hazards and precautionary measures. 

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Ozone Health Hazards and Precautionary Measures, Guidance Note EH 38 from the Health and Safety Executive, St. Hugh s House Stanley Precinct, Bootle, Merseyside L20 3QY, England. 

Ozone has proven to be effeetive against viruses. Franee has adopted a standard for the use of ozone to inaetivate viruses. When an ozone residual of 0.4 mg/I ean be measured 4 minutes after the initial ozone demand has been met, viral inaetivation is satisfied. This property plus ozone s freedom from residual formation are important eonsiderations in the publie health aspects of ozonation. When ozonation is eombined with aetivated earbon filtration, a high degree of organie removal ean be aehieved. Coneerning the toxieity of oxidation produets of ozone and the removal of speeifie eompounds via ozonation, available evidenee does not indieate any major health hazards assoeiated with the use of ozone in wastewater treatment. 

The use of ozonizers for deodorizing indoor air has been discussed and evaluated with respect to potential health hazards. In a normal 40-m room, an ozone concentration of 0.1 ppm is established after 3.5 h of operation of one of these devices. Evidence on health effects was cited to support the conclusion that inhalation of the quantities of ozone produced by these air conditioners should be avoided and that certainly no beneficial effects should be attributed to ozone inhalation. 

No health hazard data are available and no limits for workplace exist. Ozonated water in high concentrations can lead to eye and skin irritation. Langlais et al. (1991) summarize some LC50-values (concentration that is lethal to half of the test animals) found in fish... 

The development of chemical industry has provided us with the means to produce, on an ecologically significant scale, chemicals that interfere with the natural cycles of synthesis and breakdown either because they accelerate or slow down large-scale natural processes (e.g., the fluoro chloro hydrocarbons which accelerate the breakdown of ozone by sunlight) or, more commonly, because they resist breakdown themselves (e.g., certain synthetic polymers). This has become a matter of grave and widespread concern and has resulted in regulations and voluntary measures to restrict or prohibit the manufacture and use of materials that interfere with the natural cycles. This concern is particularly acute in those cases where this interference has direct or indirect adverse effects upon human health (as in the case of the fluoro chloro hydrocarbons), but it exists also where massive accumulation occurs without known health hazards (as in the case of the too-stable synthetic polymers). 

Taka Hiraishi obtained his Bachelor of Science (1966) and Masters of Science for Industrial Chemistry (1968) from Tokyo University in Japan. He joined the Ministry of Labour (Occupational Health and Safety Department) in April 1968 and moved to the newly-established Environment Agency in 1971, where he worked in the fields of offensive odours, acid rain, the ozone layer, hazardous wastes, hazardous chemicals and water pollution, till 1996. 

The peroxide (ozone) forming effects of nitrous oxides near ground level as well as the carcinogenic components of Diesel exhaust are the reason Diesel engines have recently also been subjected to special emission guidelines. They supposedly pose a danger to human respiration. This is why the studies conducted in Germany of health hazards posed by Diesel exhaust were almost entirely confined to analyses of the proportions of smoke solids and non-combusted hydrocarbons.57... 

Chemicals that are released into the environment outside the worksite may cause health hazards to the general public. The released chemicals may react with the ambient oxygen and ozone in the presence of sunlight to form other chemicals such as acids, aldehydes, nitrates and other irritant and/or noxious chemicals. 

Ozone (O3), a major constituent of smog, is a health hazard at ground level. In the stratosphere, however, a layer of ozone shields the Earth from harmful solar radiation. The greatest concentration of ozone occurs between 12 and 15 miles above the Earth s surface. The ozone layer is thinnest at the equator and densest towards the poles. Ozone is formed in the atmosphere from the interaction of molecular oxygen with very short wavelength ultraviolet light. 

Eventually, that use of carbon tetrachloride was also lessened. Studies conducted by American chemists Mario Molina (1943-) and F. Sherwood Rowland (1927-) showed that CFCs were responsible for the destruction of the Earth s ozone layer, posing potentially serious health hazards to plants and animals living on the planet. In response to this discovery, the world s nations agreed to cut back on the... 

This situation is completely different today. The demand for new materials is large for many reasons insulating foams blown with CFC (chlorofluorocar-bons) are known to be environmentally dangerous because the chlorine released from the CFC in the upper atmosphere destroys the ozone layer. Insulating fiber materials are considered a health hazard because they release small fiber fragments, which can be inhaled and deposited in the lung tissue, where... 

In addition to the health hazards noted in the above paragraphs, several others should be considered in designing a safe cryogenic facility. These are specific for particular fluids and their vapors. For example, the highly reactive oxidizers, fluorine and ozone, produce severe burns when they contact the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes. Further, they react violently with most common materials even at ordinary temperatures. A brief resume of specific eflfects is given in Appendix 2 (Safety Data Sheets) for each of the fluids considered here. 

Electrically conductive adhesives, primarily silver-filled epoxies, are finding uses as replacements for solder in surface-mounting components on printed-circuit boards and in flip-chip attachments. There are several driving forces for this application, a major one being the trend to eliminate lead and tin-lead solders because they may be health hazards. Also associated with the use of solder, is the need to eliminate ozone-depleting solvents presently used to clean and remove flux residues. Electrically conductive polymer... 

Ozone, a major constituent of smog, is a health hazard at ground level, increasing the risk of death from lung or heart disease. In the stratosphere, however, a layer of ozone shields the Earth from harmful solar radiation. 

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