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The occupational exposure limits assigned to phosgene may vary not only from country to country, but also from authority to authority. They are not only subject to change with the passage of time, but may also vary between different work environments. Some industrial companies follow their own standards, where these are more stringent than those set by the health and safety authorities [40]. Clearly, there are no sharp boundaries at which concentrations of phosgene are "safe" and at which some are "dangerous" to the human... 

Ireland Minister for Health and Safety Authority Advisory Committee on Health and Safety... 

The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is responsible for producing, disseminating and enforcing Occupational Exposure Limits in the Republic of Ireland. The natioitel list, when introduced in 1994, was based on the occupational exposure standards for some 700 chemicals applicable in the United Kingdom (EH 40), with the inclusion of additional chemicals contained in tiie US (ACGIH) list but not in the UK list. 

WAS Ergonomics Yoshida and Ogawa, 1991 Occupational Health and Safety Authority 1990 Cakir et al. 1980 Workplace and environment Short workplace checklists VDT checklist tested vs. expert... 

Occupational Health and Safety Authority (1990), Inspecting the Workplace, Share Information Booklet, Occupational Health and Safety Authority, Melbourne. 

The regulations concerned with exposure limits to various substances vary around the world. However the Occupational Health and Safety Authority (OSHA) and the American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) set the most commonly applied regulations and guidelines used. With reference to sulphuric acid mist, the current OSHA/ACGIH requirements are ... 

In Chapter 11 we looked at what safety specialists within firms can do to direct the attention of their managements to occupational health and safety. In this chapter we look at what governments and their health and safety authorities or agencies can do. This will be by no means a complete account. The purpose is simply to draw together some of the implications which emerge from the present research. In addition, I shall draw on a series of interviews conducted with senior executives of OHS agencies in Australia in 1992 (Hopkins 1993b). 

In some jiuisdictions, the government compensation and rehabilitation authorities, and the occupational health and safety authorities, have been merged. In British Columbia, for example, the workers compensation prentimns fund the occupational health and safety administrative function. 

Injury experience from workplace accidents can be foimd in mar official pirblica-tions. For a fuller pictirre, the average lost time injury frequency rate and the drrration rate for the injttries need to be cortsidered. You can usually obtain more information from yotu occupational health and safety authority. 

Occupational Health and Safety Authority (Victoria). Safety Map. A Guide to Health and Safety Management. Melbourne OHS Authority. 

The control measures and the procedures which go with them must be recorded so too must the results of monitoring. In some cases, for example with cancer-causing substances, these records must, by law, be kept for maity years, and handed to the responsible government authority if the company closes. Check with your occupational health and safety authority on the requirements of any specific legislation on carcinogenic substances. 

There are four classes of lasers, aroimd which regulations are built. Check your local regulations. In most jurisdictions these will be regulations imder radiation safety legislation. These may be administered by your local occupational health and safety authority or by a department such as health. The classes are ... 

Health and Safety Authority, Ireland www.has.ie/eng/topics/Hazard. 

Guidelines for Risk Assessment and Safety Statements, Health and Safety Authority, Dublin, January 2006. 

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