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SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE CRITERION [1 record]

Record 1 1990-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Law
  • Air Pollution
  • Occupational Health and Safety
DEF

The maximum concentrations of agents in the air to which workers may be exposed from time to time. However,, the exposure of workers to these maximum concentrations should be for not more than 15 minutes; not oftener than 4 times in a work day; and only after 60 minutes have elapsed from the time of the last previous exposure to such concentration.

OBS

See "TLV" and "TLV-STEL".

OBS

More often used in the plural form "criteria".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit environnemental
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Santé et sécurité au travail
OBS

Proposé par inférence à partir des expressions suivantes : - critères de qualité d'air ambiant (source Q1330 p. 85); -exposition de courte durée et - normes d'exposition (source LATOX).

Spanish

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