The following are the most common health hazards
encountered in Shipyard Employment:
Health Hazards with Special Work Practice Requirements
(Expanded Health Standards)
Special Work Practice Requirements for Expanded
Health Standards
- Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)
- Action level
- Exposure monitoring
- Regulated areas
- Methods of compliance
- Respiratory protection
- Emergency situations
- Protective work clothing and equipment
- Hygiene areas and practices
- Housekeeping
- Medical surveillance
- Communications of hazards to employees (training)
- Recordkeeping
Health Hazards without Special Work
Practice Requirements -
29 CFR 1915.1000
- PCB
- Coal Tar Pitch
- Silica
- Mercury
- Zinc
Other Health Hazards
- Anti-fouling paints (organo-metals such as tin and copper)
- Pesticides and fumigants
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Biological hazards
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Noise
- Radiation hazards
- Temperature-related hazards
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The OSHA Hierarchy of Controls
- Engineering Controls
- Administration Controls
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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Figure 1: Asbestos hazard
area identified.
Figure 2: Worker exposure monitoring results posted.
Figure 3: Worker receiving safety and health overview.
Figure 4: Electrical equipment containing PCB hazard.
Figure 5:. Warning for
noise hazard.
Figure 6: Posted information
on heat stress.
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