WorkSafe NZ has issued a safety alert after two people died from suspected organic solvent exposure in separate incidents.
Safeguard published a story 23 years ago, in our Jan/Feb 1996 edition, on solvent neurotoxicity. Written by Rebecca Macfie, in the five years following it became the most requested story we have ever published.
Most Forum members will never have read it, so I have attached it as a photocopied-and-scanned PDF file of 9MB.
Bear in mind that this is a vintage story. Guidelines and codes of practice will have changed. Also, it is focused more on the effects of long-term exposure to solvents rather than a catastrophic single exposure.
But it is a compelling read on a hazard which is clearly still around.