Setting occupational exposure limits
Advisory Council and Standing Technical Committee
8. OEL-RL and OEL-CL are set by the chief inspector on recommendation of the Advisory Council for Occupational Health and Safety (the Advisory Council), following assessment by the Standing Committee No. 7 (TC7) of the Advisory Council for Occupational Health and Safety.
9. TC 7 must first consider what type of limit is appropriate, OEL-RL, or OEL-CL, and secondly, at what concentration the limit should be set. Setting an OEL-RL is the first option to be considered and TC 7 comes to a decision based on a scientific judgment of the available information on health effects. If, however, TC 7 decides that an OEL-CL is more appropriate, consideration of the level at which to set the limit passes to the Advisory Council, since it involves socio-economic judgments, balancing risk to health against the cost and effort of reducing exposure. Following public consultation, new OEL-CLs and OEL-RLs are listed in Table 1 and Table 2 of Annexure 1 respectively with the approval of the chief inspector.
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