Report on Hazardous Substances

Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances

I. Review information and studies on the environmental exposure and effects of nanoparticulate silver; II. Comment on known or predicted environmental exposure levels and whether these present a human health or environmental risk; III. Comment on the nature of appropriate measures to minimise risks, if these are felt to be necessary at this point in time; IV. Consider what action should be take...

Hazardous Substances and Activities

New York hazardous substances emergency events surveillance: learning from hazardous substances releases to improve safety.

Since 1993, the New York State Department of Health, funded by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, has collected data about non-petroleum hazardous substances releases through the Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance (NYHSEES) project. This study investigates risk factors for hazardous substances releases that may result in public health consequences such as inju...

The BG measurement system for hazardous substances (BGMG) and the exposure database of hazardous substances (MEGA).

German employers' liability insurance associations or Berufsgenossenschaften (BGs)--institutions for statutory accident insurance--maintain a measurement system for hazardous substances, the so-called BGMG. The aim of the BGMG is to determine and document valid results of measurements of exposure primarily for prevention purposes. The data are collected systematically, in parallel to the sampli...

Risk assessment of hazardous substances revisited

It is needless for occupational health doctors and scientists to mention about the importance of risk assessment of hazardous substances used in workplaces. Since the US Supreme Court sentenced the " benzene verdict " requiring better ground for the occupational exposure limit (OEL) for benzene in 1980, the research and scientific knowledge on risk assessment for hazardous substances have been ...