{"id":7169,"date":"2020-11-25T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:31:20","slug":"update-to-the-formaldehyde-fact-sheet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/2020\/11\/25\/update-to-the-formaldehyde-fact-sheet\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to the Formaldehyde Fact Sheet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">The Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHSO) has updated the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehso.emory.edu\/content-guidelines\/FormaldehydeFactSheet_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Formaldehyde Fact Sheet<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span> and the current version is now on our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehso.emory.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a><\/span> under Forms\/Documents. Emory&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehso.emory.edu\/documents\/ehs-315-formaldehyde-program.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Formaldehyde Program<\/a><\/span> was developed to protect Emory University employees, students and visitors from exposure to elevated levels of formaldehyde as prescribed in OSHA\u2019s Formaldehyde Standard (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/oshaweb\/owadisp.show_document?p_id=10075&amp;p_table=STANDARDS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">29 CFR 1910.1048<\/a><\/span>). The Formaldehyde Fact Sheet provides a brief summary of the hazards, exposure controls, and exposure response for formaldehyde, paraformaldehyde, and formalin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/>\n<strong>A highlight of the updates include:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Updated <em>Exposure Control PPE<\/em> to include the requirement of wearing chemical splash goggles and a face shield when a splash to the eyes are possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/files\/2020\/11\/PPE-pic.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/files\/2020\/11\/PPE-pic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Contact EHSO or your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehso.emory.edu\/about\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EHSO Research Building Liaison<\/a><\/span> if you have any questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/files\/2020\/04\/EHSO-Graphic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6675\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/files\/2020\/04\/EHSO-Graphic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>PPE Image Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrumchemical.com\/OA_HTML\/Safety_Eye-Face-Head-Protection_Faceshields.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">https:\/\/www.spectrumchemical.com\/OA_HTML\/Safety_Eye-Face-Head-Protection_Faceshields.jsp\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHSO) has updated the Formaldehyde Fact Sheet and the current version is now on our website under Forms\/Documents. Emory&#8217;s Formaldehyde Program was developed to protect Emory University employees, students and visitors from exposure to elevated levels of formaldehyde as prescribed in OSHA\u2019s Formaldehyde Standard (29 CFR 1910.1048). The Formaldehyde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[207,91,70,278],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ehso","tag-formaldehyde","tag-ppe","tag-research-safety","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/ranews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}