NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
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Overview
The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG) informs workers, employers, and occupational health professionals about workplace chemicals and their hazards. The NPG gives general industrial hygiene information for hundreds of chemicals/classes. The NPG clearly presents key data for chemicals or substance groupings (such as cyanides, fluorides, manganese compounds) that are found in workplaces. The guide offers key facts, but does not give all relevant data. The NPG helps users recognize and control workplace chemical hazards.
NIOSH offers four versions of the NPG: print, online, PDF, and mobile web app.
Download the NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (mNPG)
Contents
What's Inside
The NIOSH Pocket Guide includes the following:
- Chemical names, synonyms, trade names, CAS, RTECS, and DOT ID and guide numbers
- Chemical structure/formula, conversion factors
- NIOSH recommended exposure limits (RELs)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) permissible exposure limits (PELs)
- NIOSH immediately dangerous to life and health values (IDLHs)
- Physical description and chemical and physical properties of agents
- Measurement methods
- Personal protection and sanitation recommendations
- Respirator selection recommendations
- Incompatibilities and reactivities of agents
- Exposure routes, symptoms, target organs, and first aid information
Ordering Information
To order free copies of the NIOSH Pocket Guide go to the NIOSH document listing at CDC-INFO On Demand.
Other vendors of the NIOSH Pocket Guide:
Superintendent of Documents
Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402-9325
202-512-1800
GPO stock number 017-033-00500-1
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
National Technical Reports Library
5301 Shawnee Road
Alexandria, VA 22312
Order Desk Telephone: (703) 605-6000 or 1-800-553-6847
NTIS order number PB2009103456 (only available as PDF download)
- Page last reviewed: April 7, 2016
- Page last updated: May 18, 2016
- Content source:
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Education and Information Division