NIOSH is conducting a public review of its draft document, "NIOSH Criteria Document Update: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium," which provides a review of the available literature and an ...

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Two Portland glass companies that use hexavalent chromium, a carcinogenic metal made famous by a Julia Roberts movie, have agreed to stop at the request of Oregon environmental regulators. But while ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA) exposure limit of 1 microgram per cubic meter (1 µg/m3) in its proposed rule for ...

The following information is from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration:OverviewHexavalent chromium is one of the valence states (+6) of the element chromium. It is usually produced by an ...

OSHA on Oct. 2 issued safety and health guidance to help small businesses comply with the agency's new hexavalent chromium (Cr[VI]) requirements for general industry, construction and shipyards. The ...

Wildfires in parts of the U.S. West may be transforming a benign form of chromium into its cancer-causing counterpart — potentially endangering first responders and surrounding communities, a new ...

The following summarizes key provisions of the Hexavalent Chromium (CrVI) standards potentially affecting the selection and use of respiratory protection for CrVI exposures in the workplace. Where ...

The city of Fukuyama is on "cat watch" after a feline fell into deadly hexavalent chromium and escaped into the night. Reading time 2 minutes The city of Fukuyama, Japan is on high alert after a cat ...

A WELL-ESTABLISHED fact in clinical dermatology is the frequent occurrence of dermatitis caused by bichromates (hexavalent chromium), while dermatitis caused by trivalent chromium compounds (for ...