Safety committees rationale

Exposure limits are set by the Health and Safety Commission, on the advice of its Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS) and Woridng Group on the Assessment of Toxic Chemicals (WATCH). ACTS has begun publishing the full rationale for establishing exposure limits as Criteria Documents . The format of these documents is modelled on that adopted by the EC [17]. 

The committee structured this report so that the first three chapters provide the background information and rationale for the report. Chapter 2 reviews the parameters considered by the committee when defining safety and how to approach it from a practical, theoretical, and statistical point of view. Chapter 3 compares the biological and behavioral advantages of human milk with infant formulas and reviews how infant formulas were developed to meet the biological advantages of human milk. 

Steering committee members who will be implementing the behavioral safety process will also benefit from an understanding of the rationale or basic theory underlying the behavioral safety process, including the observation and feedback procedures. They will provide better and more consistent support for the elements of the behavioral safety process when they understand the reasons for those elements. 

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