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The aim of this article is to present an overview of endotoxin concentration levels recorded over more than eleven years in various sectors of activity in France. The use of these exposure levels helps to support the two endotoxin guideline values…

Assessing chemical risks at the workplace can include a chemicals measurement step whose aim is to assess the exposures of the workers. In order to perform exposure diagnostic assessments that are representative of the risks, the measurements…

Skin protection is essential, but the efficacy of protective materials is limited. No polymer protective material constitutes a universal rampart against all chemical substances. In the working world, users of chemicals and occupational safety…

In occupational area, the workers can be exposed to several chemical substances simultaneously. Most exposure assessment procedures are limited to deciding if the levels are acceptable with regards to the occupational exposure limit. However…

An INRS study revealed a lack of knowledge of the risk associated with the presence of 1,3-butadiene, a carcinogenic and mutagenic substance, in the workplace. In order to provide more knowledge on the levels of exposure to this substance in France…

The INRS has made available in 2023 a tool (available at http://www.inrs.fr/outil110) that provides descriptive information on airborne exposure levels by work situation to 626 chemical substances such as particulates and volatile organic compounds…

Risk assessment is a prerequisite for any prevention approach and should make it possible to build a prevention action plan. It consists of listing the dangers that could cause harm to employees, analyzing and evaluating the conditions of exposure…