Methanol; Health-based recommended occupational exposure limit

At request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment (Annex A), the Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS), a committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands, performs scientific evaluations on the toxicity of existing substances that are used at the workplace. The purpose of the evaluations is to recommend a health-based occupational exposure limit for concentrations in the air, provided the database allows derivation of such a value. In the Netherlands, these recommendations serve as a basis in setting public occupational exposure limits by the minister.