CTSA - Chapter 3: Risk
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This chapter addresses the exposures and associated
risks that may result from using the substitute blanket washes. Section
3.1 contains information on environmental releases. Potential releases
to air, and land and water are discussed for each blanket wash. Section
3.2 examines potential occupational exposures. The dermal and inhalation
exposures that can occur as a result of working with a blanket wash
are presented. Section 3.3 addresses exposures for the general population
(i.e., people not working in the print shop), and includes information
on human exposures to blanket wash chemicals released to both air
and surface water. In all three sections, the methodologies and models
used for estimating releases and exposures are described along with
the associated assumptions and uncertainties. Section 3.4 moves from
exposures to the risks and concerns associated with such exposures.
Descriptions of how risk characterizations are made and the types
of risks examined (such as carcinogenic, chronic and developmental),
are followed by discussions of the risks assigned to the environmental,
occupational and general population exposures discussed earlier in
the chapter. In Section 3.5, methods of reducing worker risk are discussed.
Topics such as employee training, proper handling of chemicals, and
use of personal safety equipment and equipment safeguards are reviewed.
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3.1 Environmental Release Estimates [72
K pdf]
3.2 Occupational Exposure Estimates [94
K pdf]
3.3 General Population Exposure Estimates [120
K pdf]
3.4 Risk Characterization [142 K pdf]
- 3.4.1 Background
3.4.2 Ecological Risk
3.4.3 Occupational Risks
3.4.4 General Population Risks
3.5 Process Safety Concerns [50 K pdf]
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Chapter 3 in its entirety. [334 K pdf file]
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