The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), well known for its threshold limit values (TLVs) for a wide range of chemicals...
*NIOSH Comments that USDA approval of antimicrobial chemicals used in poultry plants does not consider safety and exposure can result in occupational...
*Hydrogen peroxide vapor has no smell and is imperceptible at concentrations below a few hundred ppm. Therefore odor is an unreliable indicator of th...
The reprocessing of endoscopes has been much in the news recently with the problems of cross contamination [1] and sickening of patients treated with...
Sometime ago we had a customer who installed four new hydrogen peroxide sterilizers and the customer wisely decided to place a ChemDAQ Steri-Trac® mo...
Safety in healthcare sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in fact it is a pressing issue. It is well known that healthcare has historically put ...
*OSHA used its powers under the General Duty Clause to prosecute a furniture manufacturer, Fiberdome Inc, for exposing workers to excessive concentra...
*Workplace safety is a global issue and huge cost on the world economy. However investing in safety produces both a financial benefit as well as a so...
We are sometimes asked about the appropriate respirator to use with peracetic acid and so here is some information for some of the leading brands. Th...
*The ACGIH has recently set a Threshold Limit Value (TLV) Short Term Exposure Limit (STEL) for peracetic acid (PAA) of 0.4 ppm, calculated as a 15 mi...
Advanced Sterilization Products, the manufacturer of the Sterrad® line of hydrogen peroxide sterilizers recently sent a letter to hospital Risk Manag...
Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), the manufacturer of the Sterrad hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) gas plasma sterilizer, the market leader in gas steri...
*For ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization and other other operations using potentially flammable concentrations both ppm and combustible gas sensors ar...
*Peracetic acid is typically used in solution at ppm concentrations and the vapor exposure risk to workers is expressed at ppm vapor; however the two...
*OSHA shifts tack with obsolete PELs and fines a company under the General Duty Clause for exposing workers to high levels of styrene vapor, resultin...
As mentioned earlier in this blog [1] , view [2] AAMI recently released a revised version of ST58, “ Chemical sterilization and high-level disinfecti...
One of the most common sources of confusion when talking to people about workplace exposure limits is the difference between liquid ppm and gas phase...
Hydrogen peroxide is a widely used chemical, finding application in healthcare for sterilization, metal fabrication mills for pickling and pulp & pap...
We often hear refrains similar to that of the title when we discuss hydrogen peroxide monitoring with customers. Thirty years ago, most hospitals use...
