Defining occupational exposure limit to prevent benzene’s adverse health effects

The Aromatics Producers Association (APA), part of Petrochemicals Europe, will organise on 11 September 2019 a symposium entitled “Preventing benzene’s adverse health effects: considerations in occupational exposure limit development”. Thanks to a better understanding of benzene’s health effects, several organisations have revised their recommendations for its occupational exposure limit (OEL), an upper limit on the acceptable concentration of a substance in workplace air. The event aims at sharing insights on how available human data can be interpreted to better understand benzene’s impacts on health in order to define a safe exposure level.

The symposium is targeted at all stakeholders from academia, regulatory authorities and industry that work on the health and safety assessment of benzene.

More information on the Petrochemicals Europe website