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2. Asbestos - Wikipedia

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   The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has standards to protect workers from the hazards of exposure to asbestos in the workplace. The permissible exposure limit for asbestos is 0.1 fiber per cubic centimeter of air as an eight-hour time-weighted average, with an excursion limit of 1.0 asbestos fibers per cubic centimeter ...

3. Asbestos and the law (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Asbestos litigation is the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history, involving more than 8,000 defendants and 700,000 claimants. [1] By the early 1990s, "more than half of the 25 largest asbestos manufacturers in the US, including Amatex, Carey-Canada, Celotex, Eagle-Picher, Forty-Eight Insulations, Manville Corporation, National Gypsum, Standard Insulation, Unarco, and UNR Industries ...

4. What Is OSHA and Why Do Some Republicans Want to ... - AOL

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   Since President Richard Nixon signed the law that established OSHA in 1970, it has gone on to set standards on a wide range of potential workplace health hazards, from limiting exposure to harmful ...

5. Permissible exposure limit - Wikipedia

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   The current PEL for OSHA standards are based on a 5 decibel exchange rate. OSHA's PEL for noise exposure is 90 decibels (dBA) for an 8-hour TWA. Levels of 90-140 dBA are included in the noise dose. [4] PEL can also be expressed as 100 percent “dose” for noise exposure. When the noise exposure increases by 5 dB, the exposure time is cut in ...

6. EPA to ban last form of asbestos used in US - AOL

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   The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a rule that would ban using and importing cancer-causing asbestos, a material still used in some vehicles and in some industrial ...

7. Health impact of asbestos - Wikipedia

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   The most common diseases associated with chronic exposure to asbestos are asbestosis and mesothelioma. [4] According to OSHA, [11] "there is no 'safe' level of asbestos exposure for any type of asbestos fiber. [12] [13] Asbestos exposures as short in duration as a few days have caused mesothelioma in humans. Every occupational exposure to ...