DOSH Eyes Committee Meeting to Gauge PEL Process Improvements

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) Supervising Industrial Hygienist Steve Smith announced that the Division will hold an advisory committee meeting tentatively the second week in December to explore improving the process for setting permissible exposure limits (PELs).PEL soul-searching is in advance of a new round of revisions expected to begin next year. The last time the agency proposed revised PELs, in 2003, it was forced to withdraw almost half of the revisions due to

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