Campus Lead Testing Indiana University Bloomington印第安那大学校园铅测试布卢明顿.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * By Kim Fulford Matthew Emery Ancients They regarded lead as the father of all metals, so they associated Saturn with the metal. “Saturnine“ applies to an individual whose temperament has become gloomy, cynical, and taciturn as the results of lead intoxication. Lead used in: face powders, rouges, and mascaras the pigment in many paints crazy as a painter was an ancient catch phrase rooted in the demented behavior of lead-poisoned painters a spermicide for informal birth control a sweet and sour condiment popular for seasoning food a wine preservative perfect for stopping fermentation or disguising inferior vintages plumbing comes from the Latin word for lead, plumbum. References to lead all throughout history Earliest recording of lead is found in Exodus Bronze Age brought many more documentations of lead use; original lead artifacts have been discovered also Roman’s used lead for underground pipe work; the Roman symbol can still be found today They found lead to be a very versatile metal; was very durable and malleable As time went on, leads usage decreased. Hippocrates found that human children and adults were getting sick; it was he who realized the sickness was from the negative effects from working around lead fumes. Introduced the “first” air filtering system using a pig bladder. Illness seemed to follow exposure to lead, so by the mid 1800’s they started to decrease the use of lead in certain products that humans would come in contact with. 29 CFR 1910.1025 1910.1025(c)(1) The employer shall assure that no employee is exposed to lead at concentrations greater than fifty micrograms per cubic meter of air (50 ug/m(3)) averaged over an 8-hour period.1910.1025(c)(2) If an employee is exposed to lead for more than 8 hours in any work day, the permissible exposure limit, as a time weighted average (TWA) for that day,