ABSTRACT

Of the three common environments work, sleep, and play, work alone poses the greatest quantity and exposure potential to toxic agents. is has become a far greater truism in the past 40-50 years of our industrial evolution. Fiy years ago, paints were primarily linseed oil and pigment applied with a brush or roller device. Today paints include sophisticated mixtures of polymeric resins, carcinogenic pigments, sensitizing epoxies and catalysts, and a wide variety of neurotoxin solvents that are not brush-applied but sprayed into our breathing air for faster and more economically sound application.