期刊名称：Scandinavian journal of Work, Environment and Health
印刷版ISSN：0355-3140
出版年度：2019
卷号：45
期号：3
页码：213-214
DOI：10.5271/sjweh.3825
语种：English
出版社：National Board of Occupational Safety and Health
摘要：The European Union (EU) has increased its efforts to counteract cancer due to occupational exposure. This is done byseveral means, including more active use and revision of the Carcinogen Directive (1), launch of the Roadmap on Car-cinogens (2) and the Fight Against Occupational Cancer initiative (3). These are important steps, as more than 100 000workers die each year from work-related cancer in Europe (4). The top seven exposures responsible for these cancers areasbestos, shift work, mineral oils, solar radiation, silica, diesel exhaust, and polyaromatic hydrocarbons. One importantmeasure is to introduce so-called "binding occupational exposure limit values" (BOELV), which are mainly set for non-threshold carcinogens. BOELV have to be implemented, at a minimum, in the work environment legislation of the EUmember states. Recent efforts have resulted in an increase in BOELV from 6 substances in 2003 (Directive 98/24/EC)to 16 in 2017 (Directive 2017/2398), including, eg, hexavalent chromium (Cr VI), respirable crystalline silica, benzene,and 2-nitropropane. BOELV set in 2017 must be implemented in national law by 2020.
