ASTM E752-89

Practice for Safety and Health Requirements Relating to Occupational Exposure to Carbon Disulfide (Withdrawn 1995)

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Withdrawal Date: 09-Dec-1995
• ICS: 13.100 - Occupational safety. Industrial hygiene
• ICS: 71.060.50 - Salts
• Technical Committee: E34 - Occupational Health and Safety
• Drafting Committee: E34.01 - Terminology

Standards Content (Sample)

ASTM E752 87 W 075751rO 0047642 O M ~ 1
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTINQ AND MATERIALS
Designation: E 752 - 89
19í6 Race CI. Philadelphia. Pa. 19103
Roprintod Irom lhe Annual Book of ASTM Slandards. Copyrighi ASTM
II not listed in lhe current combined index, will appear in lhe next edition.
Standard Practice for
Safety and Health Requirements Relating to Occupational
Exposure to Carbon Disulfide‘
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E 752; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the Last revision or reapprovai.
INTRODUCTION
Carbon disulfide is widely used in the viscose rayon process, in the manufacturing of tetrachloride,
in the rubber industry for vulcanization, xanthagenates, soil disinfectants, and as a solvent for
(1)’ and in other applications in the
phosphorus, sulfur, selenium, bromide, iodine, fats, rubber,
as well as in the laboratory.
chemical and petroleum industries
Carbon disulfide (synonym: carbon bisulfide) is a volatile and colorless to slightly yellowish
liquid. In a pure state, carbon disulfide may have an odor similar to ether or chloroform. In a
commercial grade, it has a pungent odor similar to that of decaying cabbage (2): Carbon disulfide
is considered highly flammable with an explosive range from 1 .O0 to 50.0 % by volume in air (3).
3. Terminology
1. Scope
1.1 This practice is designed to help protect the safety and 3.1 Descriptions of Terms:
health of employees working with carbon disulfide, 3.1.1 body burden-an estimated amount of substance
1.2 This practice is primarily intended for industries where retained in the body at a given time.
carbon disulfide is present in the workplace. Every effort 3.1.2 breathing zone-the exposure area where air is
should be made to limit exposure of any employee to airborne sampled, which is representative of the air an employee
concentrations not exceeding those recommended in 5.1. inhales into the respiratory system.
1.3 This standard may involve hazardous materials, oper- 3.1.3 ceiling concentration-the maximum concentration
ations, and equipment. This standard does not purport tq of a contaminant to which an employee may be exposed
address all of the safety problems associated with its use. It is during a work day, except as allowed by any permissible
the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish “maximum peak above ceiling.”
appropriate safety and health practices and determine the 3.1.4 maximum peak above ceiling-the maximum con-
applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. centration of contaminant to which an employee may be
exposed. Such a maximum peak shall not exceed a time
period specified for the contaminant in question. Under no
2. Referenced Documents
8-h
circumstances should the employee exposure exceed the
time-weighted average.
2.1 ASTM Standards:
3.1.5 occupational exposure-the level of concentration
D 3686 Practice for Sampling Atmospheres to Collect
of chemical agent to which a worker is exposed as deter-
Organic Compound Vapors (Activated Charcoal Tube
mined by a time-weighted average (TWA).
Adsorption Meth~d)~
3.1.6 workday time-weighted average-the average con-
D3687 Practice for Analysis of Organic Compound Va-
centration of a contaminant to which an employee is
pors Collected by the Activated Charcoal Tube Adsorp-
exposed throughout the course of a workday. For example,
tion Method3
the computation formula for an 8-h work shift is as follows:
2.2 ANSI Standards:
29.2 Fundamentals Governing Design and Operation of (cara) + (cbq + * * * (cnTn)
E=
Local Exhaust Systems4
8
237.3 Acceptable Concentration of Carbon Disulfide4
where:
288.2 Practice for Respiratory Protection4
E = equivalent exposure for the working shift,
C = concentration determined during any period of the
time, and
‘This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee FA4 on
T = duration of the exposure at the concentration, h.
Occupational Health and Safety and is under the direct jurisdiction of Subcom-
mittee E34.02 on Cabon Disulphide.
Current edition approved July 28, 1989. Published October 1989. Originally
4. Significance and Use
published as E 752 - 81. Last previous edition E 752 - 8lC1.
The boldface numbers in parentheses refer to the list of references at the end
4.1 Application of this practice will facilitate the control
of this practice.
of workplace concentrations of carbon disulfide to accept-
Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol I 1.03.
able levels.
Available from- Amencan National Standards Institute, 1430 Broadway, New
York, NY 10018. 4.2 This practice is intended to protect the worker from

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