Hazardous Substances - A Defining Concern of Occupational Health and Safety

Hazardous Substances—A Defining Concern of Occupational Health and Safety. 

This research project titled, A Review of Worlq)lace Management Strategies for Chemicals in Small Enterprises is funded by the CEFIC Long Range Research Initiative (LRI). It will be con leted by mid-2006 and will be the subject of further publications. 

That is, Austria, Belgiiun, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and die United Kingdom. 

Althou originally conceived as tedmic standards to be used as guidance fer professional occupational hygienhte, within in the EU such limits bm ame increasingjy incorporated into regulatory systems at national and EU level from tiie 1980s onwards. It is probable that there was a mixtore of drives behind this development. They would 

According to Cook (198S and 1987) the first official list ofOHI.s was issued by the USSR Ministry of Labour in 1930. 

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