Grenzwerte fuer chemische Einwirkungen an Arbeitsplaetzen Symposium

The Institute for occupational safety of the Berufsgenossenschaften (BIA) has devised a new series of events, in the form of BIA symposia, which are designed to provide a forum for the exchange of opinion between experts, thus playing a part in the process of solving current problems. It is the fact that major new developments are expected in the near future as regards both limits of reference values for hazardous substances at the workplace, and in part also new protection concepts, that the symposium on 'Limits for the effects of chemicals at the workplace - scientific findings and new concepts' was organised. On the horizon are fundamental changes and revisions as far as regulations are concerned and the preparation of provisions and concepts in the set of rules governing the basis for the calculation of these values, the criteria on which they are based and their assessment, as well as the drawing up of new limits and new classifications for important groups of substances and the conceptional considerations necessarily associated with them. Reputable experts from the European Union, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, scientific research institutions, industry and the Berufsgenossenschaften presented their viewpoints on the complex subject area and made proposals regarding possible approaches to be adopted. The presentations have been compiled in this report. (orig.)Summary in FrenchAvailable from TIB Hannover: RN 8492(1998,4) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman