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