NIOSH Comments to DOL on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Proposed Rule on Permit Required Confined Spaces by R. W. Niemeier, May 18, 1990

摘要

On November 15, 1989, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) presented testimony to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regarding their proposed rule on confined spaces. During that hearing, OSHA requested information from NIOSH to be sent with the post-hearing comments. The items requested by OSHA were comments on all the issues relevant to NIOSH that were published in the October 10, 1989, Federal Register (54 FR 41461), comments on cardiopulmonary resuscitation after cardiopulmonary arrest in confined spaces, details of the NIOSH data base on occupational deaths entitled National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) and how the data set compares with similar data, for example, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), on behavioral toxicity or other elevant toxicological data that would provide guidance on signs and symptoms (e.g., dizziness, incoordination, visual disturbances, headaches) that would warn the worker in a confined space or other attendant of undetected hazardous conditions, clarification of the NIOSH definition for oxygen deficiency and for an evaluation of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z88.2 (1980) definition for oxygen deficiency, and clarify its definition of immediately dangerous to life or health (IDLH).