Emergency and continuous exposure guidance levels for selected submarine contaminants. Volume 1 / Subcommittee on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Toxicology.

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.

Series:

Emergency and continuous exposure guidance levels for selected submarine contaminants ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Submarines (Ships).

Air quality.

Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

U.S. Navy personnel who work on submarines are in an enclosed and isolated environment for days or weeks at a time when at sea. Unlike a typical work environment, they are potentially exposed to air contaminants 24 hours a day. To protect workers from potential adverse health effects due to those conditions, the U.S. Navy has established exposure guidance levels for a number of contaminants. The Navy asked a subcommittee of the National Research Council (NRC) to review, and develop when necessary, exposure guidance levels for 10 contaminants. Overall, the subcommittee found the values proposed by the Navy to be suitable for protecting human health. For a few chemicals, the committee proposed levels that were lower than those proposed by the Navy. In conducting its evaluation, the subcommittee found that there is little exposure data available on the submarine environment and echoed a previous recommendation from an earlier NRC report to conduct monitoring that would provide a complete analysis of submarine air and data on exposure of personnel to contaminants.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Acrolein""; ""3 Carbon Dioxide""; ""4 Carbon Monoxide""; ""5 Formaldehyde""; ""6 Hydrazine""; ""7 Methanol""; ""8 Monoethanolamine""; ""9 Nitric Oxide""; ""10 Nitrogen Dioxide""; ""11 Oxygen""; ""Appendix A Biographical Information on the Subcommittee on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels For Selected Submarine Contaminants""; ""Glossary""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-17886-X

1-280-84439-6

9786610844395

0-309-10661-3

OCLC:

76148070