At its March meeting, the Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) recommended occupational exposure limits (OELs) for benzene, acrylonitrile and nickel and its compounds. These opinions follow the European Commission’s request in March 2017 for RAC to provide scientific opinions on five OELs for chemicals under Occupational Safety and Health legislation. The scientific advice from RAC will help the Commission to amend exisiting or add new OELs to the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive and better protect workers from cancer-causing chemicals.

More information is available in <link https: echa.europa.eu _blank>ECHA’s press release and in the <link https: echa.europa.eu about-us who-we-are committee-for-risk-assessment opinions-of-the-rac-adopted-under-specific-echa-s-executive-director-requests _blank>RAC opinions webpage.