{"id":29,"date":"2016-10-13T21:21:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2016-10-13T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:21:35","slug":"hydrogen-peroxide-less-hazardous-than-ethylene-oxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/hydrogen-peroxide-less-hazardous-than-ethylene-oxide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Peroxide less hazardous than Ethylene Oxide?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An insightful look on OSHA Standards of Hydrogen Peroxide and Ethylene Oxide.\u00a0 Ensure that you are OSHA compliant and have a gas detection device<\/a> in place.<\/p>\n

Why do people think Hydrogen Peroxide<\/a> is less hazardous than Ethylene Oxide?<\/h1>\n

When you look at the EtO<\/a> standard, 1910.1047, the first thing that comes to mind is that it is an enormous amount of information. The standard is very long and detailed concerning the use, storage, and monitoring of EtO<\/a>. When you then research the H2O2<\/a> standard, it appears to be a simple one liner in 1910.1000. It would follow from this observation that H202<\/a> is much less hazardous than EtO<\/a> because OSHA did not dedicate an entire standard to it as they did with EtO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, what you may not realize is that H2O2<\/a> is covered by more than just 1910.1000. It is also covered by the hazard communication standard (1910.1200), the emergency action plan standard (1910.38) and other standards. If you combine all these other standards, then the EtO<\/a> standard does not look so much larger. It is important to remember that in the 1980s, EtO<\/a> became recognized as a probable and later as a known human carcinogen, so OSHA developed individual standards for several known human carcinogens including EtO<\/a>. H2O2<\/a> is generally not considered to be carcinogenic, although ACGIH says it is an animal carcinogen, and so hydrogen peroxide is covered under 1910.1000, where EtO used to be.<\/p>\n

For comparison, OSHA\u2019s 8 hour Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for both EtO AND H2O2 is 1ppm. However, NIOSH\u2019s Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health Level is only 75ppm for H2O2, but 800ppm for EtO. While H2O2 is not a known human carcinogen, it can still inflict serious harm on those who are exposed such as permanent lung damage and neurological deficits.<\/p>\n

To peruse the relevant standards, follow these links:<\/p>\n

1910.1047
\nhttp:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/oshaweb\/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=10070<\/a>
\n1910.1000
\nhttp:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/oshaweb\/owadisp.show_document?p_id=9991&p_table=STANDARDS<\/a>
\n1910.1200
\nhttp:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/oshaweb\/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=10099<\/a>
\n1910.38
\nhttp:\/\/www.osha.gov\/pls\/oshaweb\/owadisp.show_document?p_id=9726&p_table=STANDARDS<\/a><\/p>\n

This article is published with permission from :\u00a0http:\/\/www.chemdaq.com\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The full article can be view HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An insightful look on OSHA Standards of Hydrogen Peroxide and Ethylene Oxide.\u00a0 Ensure that you are OSHA compliant and have a gas detection device in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[21,20],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethylene-oxide","category-hydrogen-peroxide","tag-exposure-limits","tag-osha-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gas-sensing.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}