Govt Regulations
This act established regulations concerning closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites. The regulation holds those responsible for dumping hazardous waste liable and established a trust to deal with cleanup when no liable party can be found.
CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)
This type of pesticide is used in soil, and forms a gas to control pests living in the soil
Fumigant
This is a congressionally mandated, science-based public health document that list substances that are known or reasonably anticipated to cause cancer in humans.
National Toxicology Program
This type of radiation can remove electrons
Ionizing radiation
This coal mining accident in West Virginia resulted in the deaths of 362 workers.
Monongah Mining Disaster
This refers term refers to the list of the “most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the United States for possible long-term remedial action under Superfund.”
National Priority List
This type of pesticides controls plants, weeds, or grasses
Herbicides
The term describing materials causing skin corrosion/burns or eye damage on contact, or that are corrosive to metals.
Corrosion
This type of radiation does not have enough energy to remove electrons but it can move atoms
Non-ionizing radiaton
These values characterize high-risk exposure concentrations and conditions
Immediately Dangerous to Life or Health (IDLH) Values
This regulatory occupational exposure limit is established by OSHA
Permissible Exposure Limit
This class of pesticide is persistent, and many in this class are banned or restricted
Organochlorines
This term describes the process where chemicals become concentrated and potentially more harmful as they move up the food chain
This term refers to the amount of ionizing radiation released by a material; how many atoms in the material decay in a given time period
Radioactivity
This communication product is often a joint effort by OSHA and NIOSH that gives information to prevent workplace fatalities and injuries.
Hazard Alert
This occupational exposure limit is developed by NIOSH and is a goal rather than an enforceable standard.
Recommended Exposure Limit
This class of pesticides has possible links with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Organophosphates
This pictogram identifies an immediate skin, eye or respiratory tract irritant, or narcotic
Exclamation mark
This type ray can easily penetrate barriers such as skin and clothing; several inches of lead (Pb) or several feet of concrete may be required to stop them; can damage tissue and DNA as they pass through the human body.
Gamma ray
This communication product reports on suspected workplace exposures or conditions that are harming employees' health.
Health Hazard Evaluations
This establishes a federal program to manage hazardous wastes from cradle to grave.
Resource Conservataion and Recovery Act (RCRA)
This class of pesticide is considered to be generally less toxic to humans and degrades rapidly in sunlight
Pyrethrins
List 2 ways heavy metal exposure is different among children vs adults
Have smaller body weight
Consume more food in proportion to their body weight
Receive higher doses of heavy metals that may be present in food
This term described that the severity of health impacts is related to the dose of radiation (Effects are associated with acute exposure to radiation).
Nonstochastic effects
Name one of the types of information that is used to set priorities for the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)
The numbers of workers at risk for a particular injury or illness
◦The seriousness of the hazard or issue
◦The probability that new information and approaches will make a difference