Publications Containing Occupational Safety and Health Recommendations

Under the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health [29 USC 1900] and the Mine Safety and Health Act [30 USC 80], NIOSH develops and recommends criteria for preventing disease and hazardous conditions in the workplace. NIOSH recommended exposure limits (RELs) are examples of such criteria. NIOSH also recommends preventive measures (e.g., engineering controls, safe work practices, personal protective equipment, and environmental and medical monitoring) for reducing or eliminating the adverse health effects of these hazards. To formulate these recommendations, NIOSH evaluates all relevant scientific information about a given hazard. The recommendations are then transmitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor for use in promulgating legal standards. These recommendations are generally made in formal publications including Criteria Documents, Special Hazard Reviews, Occupational Hazard Assessments, Joint Occupational Health Recommendations, Current Intelligence Bulletins, and Alerts, and in responses to regulatory agencies.

Criteria documents are developed to provide the basis for the comprehensive occupational safety and health standards. These documents generally contain a critical review of the scientific and technical information available on the prevalence of hazards, the existence of safety and health risks, and the adequacy of methods to identify and control hazards. Recommendations for minimizing safety and health risks include medical monitoring, exposure assessment, worker training, control technology, personal protective equipment, and recordkeeping as well as RELs where appropriate. Criteria documents are developed primarily for the U.S. Department of Labor (OSHA and MSHA); however, they are also distributed to health professionals in academia, industry, organized labor, public interest groups, and other Federal, State, and local government agencies.

Special Hazard Reviews (SHRs) and Occupational Hazard Assessments (OHAs) are written to complement NIOSH recommendations for standards. These documents assess safety and health problems and recommend appropriate methods for control and monitoring.

Joint Occupational Health Documents (JOHDs) are developed with foreign government agencies. Memoranda of Understanding for such joint publications have been signed between NIOSH and the Swedish National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH) as well as between NIOSH and the Nordic Expert Group for Documentation of Occupational Exposure Limits (NEG). One product of these agreements is the development of JOHDs in order to provide the scientific basis for establishing recommended occupational exposure limits.

All publications listed may be obtained in one or more of the following ways:

• Single copies of any publication cited in this document as being "Available from NIOSH" may be ordered without charge as long as supplies last (please include self-addressed mailing labels) from:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Education and Information Division
ATTN: Publications, C-13
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998
FAX: (513) 533-8573
Internet e-mail address: Pubstaft@niosdt1.em.cdc.gov

• Copies of any publication cited in this document with an "NTIS Stock No." may be ordered from:

U.S. Department of Commerce
National Technical Information Service (NTIS),
Springfield, VA 22161
(703) 487-4650 or (rush service) 1-800-553-NTIS

• Copies of any publication cited in this document with a "GPO Stock No." may be ordered from:

Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office (GPO)
Washington, D.C. 20402-9325
information desk (202) 783-3238

• Copies of the two-disc CD-ROM set that contains the full text of the 142 criteria documents entitled, NIOSH Issues Full Text of Criteria Documents, Related Publications on CD-ROM Set, may be ordered from the National Technical Information Service.
  
  
• NIOSH has issued a two-disc Criteria Documents Plus CD-ROM that contains the full-text of all 142 Criteria Documents, Special Occupational Hazard Reviews, Occupational Hazard Assessments, and Joint Occupational Health Documents. Additionally, it contains the full-text of the 57 Current Intelligence Bulletins (CIBs) and 43 NIOSH Alerts. This CD-ROM set and the accompanying Users Guide is available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Springfield, VA 22151. Telephone Number 703/487-4650/Fax (703) 321-8546. Stock Number PB 97-502-082 and the domestic cost is $60.00.

Please note that some NIOSH publications are available from more than one source. Be sure that your order reflects the correct publication or stock number information and is sent to the appropriate source. Do NOT send NTIS or GPO orders to NIOSH.

The following is an alphabetical list of chemicals/processes/hazards (including year of publication) for which NIOSH has issued Criteria Documents, Occupational Health Assessments, Special Hazard Reviews, or Joint Occupational Health Documents. Unless otherwise noted, the documents are Criteria Documents.

Disclaimer

NIOSH has made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the criteria documents offered in Wordperfect or HTML formats on this website. However, most of the historical documents were not available in electronic form and the files were created either from a double keying procedure or optical character scanning. Therefore, the user should be cautioned that the Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) files are exact copies of the original documents and should be used as the principle source of information.

* =The complete document is available from NIOSH
@=The Criteria Document Abstract (first chapter) is available from NIOSH
+=No NIOSH Publication Number
(JOHD) =Joint Occupational Health Document
(OHA) =Occupational Hazard Assessment
(SHR)=Special Hazard Review