NIOSH studies workplace hazards and recommends exposure limits; OSHA sets and enforces the legal standards. Its recommendations on asbestos have called for lower limits than the law required.
Reports in the Library
- 1972Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Asbestos
- 1976NIOSH, Revised Recommended Asbestos Standard
- 1980Statement of Richard A. Lemen Before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation, House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
- 1980Workplace Exposure to Asbestos: Review and Recommendations
- 1995Report to Congress on Workers' Home Contamination Study Conducted Under the Workers' Family Protection Act
- 1998Atlas of Respiratory Disease Mortality, United States: 1982–1993
- 1999Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance Report 1999: Asbestosis and Related Exposures
- 2011Asbestos Fibers and Other Elongate Mineral Particles: State of the Science and Roadmap for ResearchCurrent Intelligence Bulletin 62