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Volume 4
Toxicology: Open Access
ISSN: 2476-2067
Toxicology Congress 2018
March 12-14, 2018
March 12-14, 2018 Singapore
14
th
World Congress on
Toxicology and Pharmacology
OEL values for new chemicals in 2017 in Poland
Slawomir Czerczak and Malgorzata Kupczewska Dobecka
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland
Statement of the Problem:
The aim of the studies is to support enterprises in the implementation of statutory obligations
relating to health and safety by providing information on the risks posed by chemical substances on the basis of monographs
developed occupational exposure limits. In Poland the system of setting hygienic standards was launched in 1983 by the
minister of labor, wages and social affairs and the minister of health and social welfare who appointed the interdepartmental
commission for maximum admissible concentrations and intensities for agents harmful to health in the working environment.
In Poland in 2017, the OEL values were established for 6 new substances.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation:
The selection of substances to develop monograph of OEL values was taken
into account, 3 substances classified as carcinogenic: Phenolphthalein, 2-nitroanisol, N-nitrosodimethylamine. Two active
substances of anticancer drugs, i.e. etoposide and fluorouracil were also considered as part of the follow-up work on the
development of occupational exposure limits for cytostatics. Considering the need to establish the normative value of
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxine for which no OEL has been established yet, but it is a major hygienic problem in plants
where chlorine-containing compounds are burned, e.g. in hazardous waste incineration plants.
Findings:
On the basis of the available data in the literature on the health and biological effects caused by the selected substances
have identified the effects and organs or critical systems of their toxic effects and have assessed the risk to the health of workers
who are exposed to them. In the case of cytostatics, setting OELs protects medical staff mainly against the distal effects of
exposure.
Conclusion & Significance:
Establishing the OEL values for selected chemicals in the work environment will help to effectively
manage the risks associated with exposure to them.
sak@imp.lodz.plToxicol Open Access 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.4172/2476-2067-C1-006