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Harmful Factors in the Work Environment - limit values

Edited by dr Małgorzata Pośniak, edition XI changed, ISBN 978-83-7373-264-3

• Preface
• Admission
• Chemical substances
• Introduction to the list of the maximum permissible concentrations of chemicals in the work environment
  • Basic definitions
  • Rules for the assessment of occupational exposure
    • Job description
    • Identification
    • Determination of chemicals in the air at workplaces
    • Sampling of air
    • Interpretation of results
    • Corrective Action
  • Rules for the labeling of substances
• List of the maximum concentration values together with the type of action label adopted by the Commission and the methods for determining concentrations in the air at workplaces
• Permissible concentrations of harmful chemicals in biological material (DSB)
  • Biological monitoring of exposure to harmful factors
  • Biological material
  • Monitoring of early effects of the activity
  • DSB values
• Dust
• Dust
  • Basic definitions
  • Dimensions of particles
  • Occupational exposure to dust
• Biological factors
• Harmful biological agents
• Physical factors
• Introduction
• Noise, infrasound noise and ultrasonic noise
  • Noise
    • Limit values
    • Measurement methods
    • Exposure and occupational risk assessment
    • Prevention
  • Infrasound noise
    • Measurement methods and criteria for evaluation of infrasound noise as a nuisance factor
    • Exposure and occupational risk assessment
    • Prevention
  • Ultrasonic noise
  • Limit values
  • Measurement methods
  • Exposure assessment
  • Prevention
• Mechanical vibrations
  • Introduction
  • Assessment of worker exposure
  • Limit values
  • Risk assessment
  • Possibilities of limiting the occupational risk related to the exposure to mechanical vibrations
• Electromagnetic field
  • Hazards caused by the electromagnetic field
  • Sources of the electromagnetic field
  • Exposure or exposure of all employees
  • Protection of pregnant and juvenile women
  • Protection of users of medical implants
  • Measurements of the electromagnetic field
  • Assessment of occupational risk related to exposure to electromagnetic fields
  • Protective measures
• Non-laser optical radiation
  • Introduction
  • Ultraviolet radiation
    • Characteristics of the factor
    • Ultraviolet activity on the human body
    • Sources of non-UV ultraviolet radiation
    • Spectral distribution of the biological effectiveness of ultraviolet radiation
    • Maximum exposure limit values (MDE)
    • Permissible exposure of adolescents and pregnant women
    • Measurement methods
  • Frequency of measurements
• Visible radiation
  • Characteristics of the factor
  • The effect of visible radiation on the human body
  • Sources of non-laser visible radiation
  • Spectral distributions of the biological effectiveness of visible radiation
  • Maximum exposure limit values (MDE)
  • Measurement methods
  • Frequency of measurements
• Infrared radiation
  • Characteristics of the factor
  • Infrared action on the human body
  • Sources of non-laser infrared radiation
  • Maximum exposure limit values (MDE)
  • Permissible exposure of juveniles
  • Measurement methods
  • Frequency of measurements
  • Additional factors taken into account in the study of exposure to optical radiation
  • Basic ways to protect people against non-glare optical radiation in the work environment
• Laser radiation
  • Hazards caused by laser radiation
  • Maximum admissible exposures
  • Other threats
  • Division of lasers and laser devices into classes in terms of threats
  • Activities and measures to ensure safe work with lasers
    • Technical requirements
    • Information requirements for the manufacturer
    • Organizational requirements for the user
  • Safety requirements during laser shows and shows
  • Work safety with fiber optic telecommunications systems
  • Work safety with optical communication systems in free space
  • Annex: Maximum permissible eye and skin exposure to laser radiation
• Ionizing radiation
  • Introduction
  • Biological effect of ionizing radiation
  • Radiological protection
  • Limit doses
  • Exceptional situations
  • Medical supervision
• Thermal environment
  • Introduction
  • Microclimate hot
    • Measurement of environmental parameters
    • Measurement of derivative parameters
    • Measuring the air temperature
    • Assessment of metabolic rate
    • Variability in time and space
    • Acclimatization
    • Topping up of water and salt
    • Protection of adolescents and pregnant women and women who are nursing their babies
  • A cold microclimate
  • IREQ indicator
  • T_wc indicator
  • Supervision of working conditions
  • Protection of adolescents and pregnant women and women who are breastfeeding
• Interministerial Commission for the Highest Permissible Concentration and Intensity of Factors Harmful to Health in the Work Environment
• Regulation of the President of the Council of Ministers of December 15, 2008 on the establishment of the Interministerial Commission for Maximum Permissible Concentrations and Intakes of Agents harmful to Health in the Work Environment
• Composition of expert teams appointed by the Chairman of the Interregisterial Commission for Highest Acceptable Concentrations and Intakes of Workers Harmful to Health in the Work Environment
  • Team of Experts on Chemical Factors
  • Team of Experts on Physical Factors
  • Team of Experts on Biological Factors
• Proposals of new NDS and NDN values
  • List of chemical factors whose normative values were accepted by the Commission requesting the minister competent for labor issues to introduce them to the regulation on NDS and NDN values (as at 30/07/2018)
  • The list of chemical substances for which the Expert Team on Chemical Factors prepared documentation in 2018.
  • Hygienic norms established in the European Community
• CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number)