Short-term exposure limits STEL

Use of isopropyl alcohol in industrial appHcations does not present a health hazard. The alcohol produces anesthetic effects in high vapor concentration. Consequently, the OSHA permissible exposure limit (PEL) and the ACGIH threshold limit value (TLV) have been estabUshed at 400 ppm (0.098 mg/L) for an 8-h exposure (TWA) (138). This level causes a mild irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat (139). However, the TLV level does not produce symptoms of anesthesia (140). The OSHA and ACGIH short-term exposure limits (STELs) are 500 ppm. The odor threshold for isopropyl alcohol ranges from 3 to 200 ppm, which is the minimum concentration having identifiable odor (141). 

The adopted values for TWAs for airborne vanadium, including oxide and metal dusts of vanadium, is 0.5 mg/m the values for fumes of vanadium compounds is 0.05 mg/m. These limits are for normal 8-h workday and 40-h work-week exposures. The short-term exposure limit (STEL) is 1.5 mg/m for dusts (25). A description of health ha2ards, including symptoms, first aid, and organ involvement, personal protection, and respirator use has beenpubhshed (26). 

Effective Dec. 10, 1987, the existing standard for benzene was amended under OSHA (29 CER, Part 1910.1028). The revised standard reduced the permissible exposure limit from 10 ppm (32 mg/m ) to 1 ppm (3.2 mg/m ) iu an 8-h TWA. The short term exposure limit (STEL) of 5 ppm was set over a 15 min period. The standard also established action level requirements for exposure over 0.5 ppm. 

The threshold limit value—time integrated average, TLV—TWA, of chlorine dioxide is 0.1 ppm, and the threshold limit value—short-term exposure limit, STEL, is 0.3 ppm or 0.9 mg /m of air concentration (87,88). Chlorine dioxide is a severe respiratory and eye irritant. Symptoms of exposure by inhalation include eye and throat irritation, headache, nausea, nasal discharge, coughing, wheezing, bronchitis, and delayed onset of pulmonary edema. Delayed deaths occurred in animals after exposure to 150—200 ppm for less than one hour. Rats repeatedly exposed to 10 ppm died after 10 to 13 days of exposure. Exposure of a worker to 19 ppm for an unspecified time was fatal. The ingested systemic effects of low concentration chlorine dioxide solutions are similar to that of chlorite. 

The toxic plume is expected to extend 4000 meters downwind at concentrations above the short-term exposure limit (STEL). 

Short-term exposure limit (STEL) TLV - the eoneentration to whieh it is believed that workers ean be exposed eontinuously for a short period of time without suffering from initation, ehronie or irreversible tissue damage, or nareosis of suffieient degree to inerease the likelihood of aeeidental injury, impair self-reseue or materially reduee work effieieney, and provided that the daily TWA limit is not exeeeded. A STEL is a 15 min TWA exposure whieh should not be exeeeded at any time during the work day even if the TWA is within the TLV. It should not oeeur more than four times per day or without at least one hour between sueeessive exposures. 

TLV), Short Term Exposure Limits (STEL), and Immediately Dangerous to Life alth... 

Short-term exposure limit, STEL, which can be exceeded for periods of up to 15 minutes, and... 

Long-term exposure limit (LTEL) An exposure limit requirement based on the assumption that the total body intake of a pollutant below this limit over an 8-hour working day will have no harmful effect on the worker over a working life. See also Maximum exposure limit (MEL), Occupational exposure limit (OEL), and Short-term exposure limit (STEL). 

Short Term Exposure Limit (STEL) The time w eightcd average (TWA) airborne concentration to which workers may be e.xposed for periods up to 15 minutes, with no more than 4 such c.xcursions per day and at least 60 minutes between them. 

Short-Term Exposure Limit (STEL)—The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) maximum concentration to which workers can be exposed for up to 15 min continually. No more than four excursions are allowed per day, and there must be at least 60 min between exposure periods. The daily Threshold Limit Value - Time Weighted Average (TLV-TWA) may not be exceeded. 

The TLV may be expressed as a Time Weighted Average (TWA), as a Short-Term Exposure Limit (STEL), or as a ceiling limit (CL). 

Short-Term Exposure Limit (STEL)—The American Conference of Governmental Industrial... 

Threshold Limit Value (TLV)—An American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) concentration of a substance to which most workers can be exposed without adverse effect. The TLV may be expressed as a Time Weighted Average (TWA), as a Short-Term Exposure Limit (STEL), or as a ceiling limit (CL). 

Short Term Exposure Limit (STEL) The time weighted average concentration to which workers can be exposed continuously for a short period of time, normally fifteen minutes, without suffering irritation, chronic or irreversible tissue damage, etc,.. 

Other isomers Short-term exposure limit (STEL) Ceiling Other isomers 500 ppm (1760 mg/m3) 100 ppm (3500 mg/m3) ... 

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