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Occupational and environmental exposure to chemicals can take place both indoors and outdoors. Occupational exposure is caused by the chemicals that are used and produced indoors in industrial plants, whereas nonoccupa-tional (and occupational nonindustrial) indoor exposure is mainly caused by products. Toluene in printing plants and styrene in the reinforced plastic industry are typical examples of the two types of industrial occupational exposures. Products containing styrene polymers may release the styrene monomer into indoor air in the nonindustrial environment for a long time. Formaldehyde is another typical indoor pollutant. The source of formaldehyde is the resins used in the production process. During accidents, occupational and environmental exposures may occur simultaneously. Years ago, dioxin was formed as a byproduct of production of phenoxy acid herbicides. An explosion in a factory in... 

Antikainen M, Griffith M, Zhang J, Hon WC, Yang DSC, Pihakashi-Maunsbach K. Immunolocalization of antifreeze proteins in winter rye leaves, crowns, and roots by tissue printing. Plant Physiol 1996 110 845-857. 

Verhoeff, A.P., Suk, J. van Wijnen, J.H. (1988) Residential indoor air contamination by screen printing plants. Int. Arch, occup. environ. Health, 60, 201-209 Verschueren, K. (1996) Handbook of Environmental Data on Organic Chemicals, 3rd Ed., New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, pp. 943-947 Vincent, R., Poirot, R, Subra, L, Rieger, B. Cicolella, A. (1994) Occupational exposure to organic solvents during paint stripping and painting operations in the aeronautical industry. Int Arch, occup. environ. Health, 65, 377-380... 

Respiratory Effects. Lee and Frederick (1981) found that eye, respiratory, and skin irritation were among the complaints of 27/35 workers in a printing plant. Two of the workers (screen printers) were exposed to 8-hour TWA concentrations of isophorone of 0.7 and 14 ppm, but it was not clear whether these two individuals were among those who complained of respiratory irritation. Lee and... 

The irritancy properties of isophorone have also been observed in humans exposed occupationally to isophorone. In an industrial hygiene survey, Kominsky (1981) reported that the eye and nose irritation complained of by a screen printer could have been caused by 4-minute exposure to 25.7 ppm isophorone, which was measured in the personal breathing zone while the worker was washing a screen. Lee and Frederick (1981) found that eye, respiratory, and skin irritation were among the complaints of 27/35 workers in a printing plant where isophorone and other solvents (xylene, methylene chloride, and toluene) were used. On the day of measurement, two of the screen printers were found to be exposed to 8-hour TWA concentrations of isophorone of 0.7 and 14 ppm, but it was not clear whether these two individuals were among the workers complaining of irritation. The odor threshold for isophorone in air has been reported to be 0.2 ppm (v/v) (Amoore and Hautala 1983). 

Samimi B. 1982. Exposure to isophorone and other organic solvents in a screen printing plant. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 43(1) 43-48. 

The question was whether a preprinted form could be overcoated with Dylux or whether a Dylux-coated paper could be overprinted. This was easy to test at the DuPont printing plant, where a friend, Mr. Russell K. Johnson was the technical manager. As in so many other instances where it was easier to run the experiment than to analyze it to death, we found that it could be done—either way. I communicated the results to Koenig, and he invited me to visit a potential equipment maker on the West Coast. Johnson was an incredibly enthusiastic man, who welcomed any scientist to his plant and helped in steering research into useful channels. By that time, I visited the modern printing plant almost... 

There are records of chemical fires in plants such as a plant of Hakubunkan (small fire), a plate-making and printing plant (destroyed), and a plant making celluloid (destroyed) in the Great Kanto Earthquake and a plant of Fukui Newspaper (destroyed), and an oil plant (destroyed) in the Fukui Earthquake. 

Greene MH, Hoover RN, Eck RL, Fraumeni JF. Cancer mortality among printing plant workers. Environ Res 1979 20 66. 

Automated work proc ses are the striking feature present in all areas of this printing plant for fast, printed products with a... 

The combined process of recycling is a promising approach for treating wastewater from water-based ink manufacturers and printing plants to meet the discharge requirements (35). 

Overspeed Protection. To prevent damage to a driven machine, materials in the industrial process, or the motor, overspeed protection is provided by controlling the power-supply frequency in ac motors and by hmiting the maximum shunt field resistance or armature voltage in dc motors. Typical applications include paper and printing plants, steel mills, processing plants, and the textile industry. 

Cleanroom facilities were often originally constructed as B-2 occupancy (Group B, Division 2, which included office buildings printing plants factories and workshops using materials not highly flammable or combustible, etc.). As such, these facilities were allowed to have unlimited area when sprinklered and surrounded by side yards. When such facilities are converted to Group H occupancy, severe restrictions on the allowable area may be imposed by the UBC. 

Figure 1 Schematic of an Alocrom pretreatment and adhesive printing plant for...

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