Understanding OSHA’s Table Z Limits, PELs, RELs, TLVs, Ceiling Concentrations and EPA’s Increasing Efforts to Exert its Authority to Establish Occupational Exposure Limits

The overlapping, confusing and often conflicting web of chemical exposure limits established by OSHA, NIOSH, and voluntary organizations like ACGIH present challenges to employers trying to make good judgments about the controls in place at their facilities to ensure that their employees’ health is not being compromised by chemicals present in the workplace. EPA has added its voice to the arena, adding even more confusion to the determination of what exposure levels are appropriate.

In this webinar, CMC attorneys Kate McMahon and Chris Vamos, along with special guest Maureen Ruskin, former Deputy Director of the Directorate of Standards and Guidance at OSHA, will unravel the web of conflicting exposure limitations, explain how these limits apply in your workplace, and provide guidance on best practices for monitoring and controlling air exposures at your worksite. We will provide a foundation to evaluate industrial hygiene recommendations and practices for chemicals processed at your facilities and help participants learn how to translate technical monitoring data into useable information to ensure a sound approach to the control of chemicals in your workplaces.

Designed for in-house counsel, safety and EHS professionals, and compliance teams, our practitioners will bring a dense and technical area of occupational safety and health regulation into focus so it can be effectively managed by your safety and environmental teams in the field and understood and evaluated by your legal and compliance personnel.