PARLIAMENT APPROVES STRICT MEASURES TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM CARCINOGENS
June 1st, 2017
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved last month a binding workplace limit saying workers making and applying paints and coatings should not breathe air with more than 0.005 mg/m3 (milligrams per cubic metre) of chromium (VI) compounds – a widely-used mineral-based chemicals used in the paint and automotive sectors. But MEPs agreed, in adopting Swedish socialist MEP Marita Ulvskog’s report on the proposal on October 25, an amendment (in recital 16) taking account of the fact that this occupational exposure limit (OEL) “may not be appropriate” and would be ...
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