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News Release from: HSE Health and Safety Executive | Subject: Revised Workplace Exposure Limits
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 03 August 2006
HSC consults on new workplace exposure
limits
On 4 July the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) published a Consultation Document welcoming comments on proposals to introduce new and revised Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs).
On 4 July the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) published a Consultation Document welcoming comments on proposals to introduce new and revised Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs) Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs) are concentrations of hazardous substances in the air, approved by the Health and Safety Commission (HSC)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Employers have a responsibility to ensure that these limits are not exceeded in order to protect the health of workers.
The HSC's proposals are significant in the implementation of the 2nd Directive on Indicative Occupational Exposure Limit Values (IOELVs) (2006/15/EC), adopted in February by the European Commission.
The directive lists 33 substances with exposure limits, for which Member States must introduce a domestic occupational exposure limit by September 2007.
For many of the 33 substances, a comparable Workplace Exposure Limit (WEL) already exists in Great Britain and has been published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
The Consultation document proposes to introduce WELs for 7 substances where one does not currently exist and reduce the limit of the WELs for 13 substances.
It is proposed that the new and revised WELs will be introduced on 6 April 2007.
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