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Archived News Release--Caution:
information may be out of date.
For more information call: (202) 219-8151
The advisory committee formed by the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) to determine the best means of protecting
workers against hazards of metalworking fluids will hold a public meeting March
25 and 26, 1998, in the Sharonville section of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Metalworking Fluids Standards Advisory Committee will
meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wed., March 25, at the Woodfield Suites Hotel, 11029
Dowlin Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211. The meeting will reconvene at noon on
March 26, after an information- gathering visit to the Ford Motor Co.'s
Sharonville plant by various working groups of the committee and will adjourn
about 4 p.m.
The meeting will focus on technology used in large plants
to control employee exposure to metalworking fluids. Specific discussions will
include:
- General techniques used to control metalworking fluid mist;
- Considerations in selecting and implementing metalworking fluid
control technology;
- Ventilation considerations for the design, installation and use of
machine tools using metalworking fluids;
- Performance evaluation of mist control filtration systems;
- Exposure comparisons between transfer lines with different levels of
control technology on mist control Performance;
- Problems with maintenance of control technology; and
- The economic and technological feasibility of reducing metalworking
fluid mist exposure in the American automobile industry
The committee will meet as a whole and also in small
working groups.
Comments, data, views or statements for consideration by
the committee, as well as requests to make oral presentations should be
submitted by March 20 to Dr. Peter Infante, U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA,
Directorate of Health Standards Programs, Metalworking Fluids Standards
Advisory Committee, Room N-3718, 200 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.,
20210.
Any person wishing to make an oral presentation must
provide a summary of the proposed presentation, an estimate of the time desired
and a statement of the capacity in which the person will appear. Requests to
make oral presentations to the committee may be granted if time permits.
Requests for special disability accommodations should be
made to Theresa Berry at (202) 219-8615 ext. #106 (fax: 202-219-5986) no later
than March 20.
Notice of the meeting was published in the Thursday, Feb.
26, 1998, Federal Register.
Archived News Release--Caution:
information may be out of date.
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