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Workplace Environmental Exposure Levels Committee
The mission of the committee is to produce guides on exposure levels when no legal or authoritative limits exist.
Goals and Objectives
Goals:
- Develop Workplace Environmental Exposure Level (WEEL) guides for chemical and physical agents and stresses.
- Disseminate up-to-date WEEL guides and supporting documentation.
Objectives:
- Make appropriate recommendations about exposure levels to standards-setting bodies.
- Update existing WEELs as new information becomes available.
- Disseminate WEELs and supporting documentation through publication by the AIHA national office.
Strategies:
- Assemble and evaluate available information relevant to setting exposure levels.
- Cooperate with the ACGIH TLV® Committee and similar organizations in setting safe exposure levels.
- Identify the agents and stresses being addressed by the WEEL Committee to other authoritative organizations.
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