Quote Originally Posted by painter777 View Post

.... look over the safety data sheets. On jobs that we spray Zinc Chromate, you have your spacesuit on. In tight or confined areas you have to pull your confined space permits and use the buddy system. Supplied air along with air (levels) monitoring is a must in these conditions. Decontamination showers and blood testing comes with the territory also. Documented proof has to be provided per each mans exposure time and to what levels.
Hmmmm, there goes the Government getting in the way of gun -lovers again.... Kinda sounds like all those "revenuers" trying to take the 'shine away during Prohibition.... next Washington will be issuing 4 page safety instructions on how to go to the bathroom so that you don't get paper cuts from the toliet paper .....

Seriously, its actually very tragic all the harm done out of sheer ignorance to those just trying to support our defense industry... chemicals that were common place in WWI, WWII and Korea are (thankfully) outlawed or controlled today. I would say that Benzine, Asbestos, Lead and Mercury have killed as many men and women in our defense industries over the years as those dying in combat from enemy bullets...

As far as the park chemicals and limits to modern experimenting, what has the surviving old timers who used to do those park-job credit the green tint to?