Occupational Safety Flashcards

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STEL

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Short Term Exposure Limit

  • aka “ceiling limit”
  • established by OSHA
  • 15 min limit during an 8-hr works shift
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PEL

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Permissible exposure limit

  • established by OSHA regulations
  • with 8 hr time weighted average exposure to a given toxicant
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IDLH

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Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health

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TLV

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Threshold limit value

- developed by ACGIH

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REL

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Recommended exposure limit

- by NIOSH

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BEI

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Biological Exposure Indices

  • by ACGIH
  • For a given toxicant corresponds to inhalation exposure for a worker exposed at the TLV
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