Other Metals Flashcards
(26 cards)
Cadmium exp
Nicad batteries
Cables
Alloys/ Welding
Metal coatings
Cadmium kinetics
Inhalation
Slow excretion
Renal liver accumulation
Cadmium effects
Prox tubule dysfunction like fanconi
Metal fume fever, pulm oedema, ARDS
COPD
Repro tox/fert
Cadmium monitor
Blood/urine any time
= all routes
Chrome exp
STAINLESS STEEL welding
Electroplate
Paint/pigs/leather tanning
Chrome acute effects
Skin
Eye
URT irritation
Skin burns/ulcers - worse if cuts
Chrome lt effects
Skin sens
Resp sens
Nasal /septal ulcers
Kidney/lung damage
Lung CANCER
Fetal
Chrome monitoring
Urine post shift week BMGV 10umol/mol creat
Wel 0.05 mgm3 chrome hex
0.5 others
Chrome health surveillance
Skin insp
Resp
BMGV
Higher = INADEQUATE CONTROL
Not nec = health effects
Cobalt exp
Hard/super alloys ie aeospace heavy eng
Hard metals ie grinding tools
Ceramics/paint = pigment
Cobalt monitoring
Blood/urine end of shift/week
Cobalt surveillance
Skin
Resp
Cobalt routes
Inh, skin, gi ie eating
Cobalt acute
GI ie pain/v if ingested
Cobalt effects
Skin and resp sensitisation CROSS REACTIVITY WITH NICKEL
Hard metal disease - inflammation IPF
? Cardiomyopathy/ thyroid
Manganese exp
Stainless and mild steel
Batteries
Fertiliser
Metal fabric/welding etc
Manganese effects
CNS from inhalation
Sleepy, leg weakness
?chronic - pneumonitis
HSE =’PD like
Manganese WEL changed
0.05mgm3
Mercury exp
Electrical equip mfr
CFL fluoro bulb recycling
Healthcare/dentists
Chlor alkali process - electrode (making chlorine from sodium hydroxide)
Batteries/old thermometers
Production: biocides/fungicides
Mercury effects general
Resp - irritation from acute inhalation VAPOUR
Renal tubular damage
Psychomotor- dementia, polyneuropathy
Mercury forms
Elemental/metallic liquid/vapour INHALED
Inorganic - usually powder
Organic - ie methyl meurcury - contaminated fish
Effects mercury vapour
Volatile/inhaled
CNS, resp, GI, renal, immune
Resp - pulm irritation Pneumonitis Pulm oedema ARDS necrotising bronchilitis
Flu/GI
Neuro psych - hallucinations, tremor, irritability
Lt memory personality change
Mercury inorg salts
VERY CORROSIVE
Skin, eyes, GI
Ie n, haematemesis, colitis, intestinal mucosal necrosis
VERY TOXIC
ie fatal at 0.5g
