title: Toward WHO-recommended occupational exposure limits.
abstract: The WHO Project on Recommended Health-based Limits in Occupational Exposure resulted in the development of occupational exposure limit (OEL) values for a few groups of widely used industrial chemicals. A comparative analysis of the WHO-recommended OEL and existing OEL in selected countries has been made. It was shown that in the OEL's development, there is need for harmonization of methodology, approaches and definitions. Therefore, a new WHO project on guiding principles and guidance values for health-based occupational exposure limits has been established.
authors.affiliation: Occupational Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Mikheev
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008452:Maximum Allowable Concentration; D008670:Metals / Q000032:analysis; D012997:Solvents / Q000032:analysis; D014944:World Health Organization / Q000458:organization & administration
chemical_list: D008670:Metals; D012997:Solvents