Where would we be without industrial hygiene? IH is the foundation of workplace safety and health, but without trustworthy, valid exposure limits that match the latest science about health effects, IH ...

The Foundation for Occupational Health & Safety recently created the Sustainable TLV®/BEI® Fund to ensure the continued development of the Threshold Limit Values (TLVs®) and Biological Exposure ...

The processes for establishing voluntary occupational exposure limits (OELs) by nonprofit organizations have been legally and scientifically challenged recently. This follows a long history of legal ...

A study will be conducted to review the model(s) the Department of Defense proposes for determining occupational exposure levels for lead. An ad hoc committee will review the scientific and technical ...

The Council is ready to begin negotiations with the European Parliament on a new initiative to protect workers from health risks linked to exposure to dangerous chemicals. The amending directive on ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. – Army public health experts have created a new on-line resource for workplace vibration exposure measurements to help track any potential hazardous vibration exposures at ...

This press release was updated on 6 December 2023 to add the agreed text. Today, the two co-legislators provisionally agreed on the limit values for lead and diisocyanates. The deal still needs to be ...

The European Union wants to reduce human exposure to harmful substances like lead. While there are already occupational limits in place for lead, the latest science considers these rules to be ...

Brussels is revising the limit values on lead exposure in the workplace for the first time in 40 years and also introducing new rules for a class of chemical compounds called diisocyanates. But will ...

A study will be conducted to review the model(s) the Department of Defense proposes for determining occupational exposure levels for lead. An ad hoc committee will review the scientific and technical ...