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Threshold limit value
Domain: Health and safety at work => Risk factors
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Countable
Definition
Maximum permissible concentration of a material, generally expressed in parts per million in air for some defined period of time (often 8 hours, but sometimes for 40 hours per week over an assumed working lifetime).
Definition source
Oxford University - Chemical safety information Glossary
European legislation
Directives 80/1107/EEC, 82/605/EEC, 83/477/EEC, 86/188/EEC, 88/642/EEC
Variants
TLV
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