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exposure limit

The maximum concentration of a substance with which an organism can have contact without suffering adverse effects.
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The Santa Clara County California Fire Chiefs Association has established a procedure for calculation of a Community Exposure Limit (CEL) which is the "minimum toxic gas concentration level for a single gas at which protection or evacuation of the community is recommended" (7,8).
A risk assessment in support of a facility wind tunnel study
(*) In this document, NIOSH recommends occupational exposure limits for ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE) and its acetate, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate (EGBEA).
Availability of NIOSH criteria document on ethylene glycol monobutyl ether and ethylene glycol monobutyl ether acetate
Ethylene dichloride: the directive establishes an exposure limit value of 8.2 mg/m3, as well as a skin notation.
Belgium : Protecting workers: Council sets new exposure limits for 8 additional carcinogens and mutagens
The standard reduces the exposure limit from 100 micrograms ([micro]g) per cubic meter of air to 50 [micro]g per cubic meter over an eight-hour period.
Silica rule is regulatory overkill
Last month, the insurance regulator had allowed companies to raise exposure limit in one sector from 15% to 20%, after the approval of their respective boards.
INSURANCE COMPANIES TO INVEST IN IT, OIL and GAS
During the formal rulemaking process, AFS presented substantial evidence that OSHA's proposed permissible exposure limit (PEL) was technologically and economically infeasible for U.S.
AFS member voices industry's concerns with OSHA's Silica Rule at House hearing
The best scientific evidence indicates that the current exposure limit protects workers from silica-related disease when it is universally complied with and universally enforced.
Industry slams OSHA's crystalline silica proposal
We cannot violate Reserve Bank of India norms,' the unnamed executive said, adding that the government and the central bank had to address the exposure limit issue.
-State Bank of India not to sponsor government's infrastructure fund
not directly DNA-damaging) genotoxic effects of benzene in workers can be used to derive a new occupational exposure limit. The proposed OEL of 0.05 parts per million will protect workers from leukaemia as well as other adverse health effects.
Belgium : RAC recommends an occupational exposure limit for benzene
Bank lending to individual entities are limited by single borrower exposure limit. This single borrower limit is arrived at based on 15% of the net worth of a bank.
INTEREST RATE
It will eventually replace the existing Directive 86/188/EEC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to noise at work.The draft Directive fixes exposure limit values and exposure action values.
COUNCIL RUBBER STAMPS NOISE LIMIT COMPROMISE
In May 1989, OSHA proposed a permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 10 ppm.
Solid waste is '90s hottest issue

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