Carbon disulphide. Health-based recommended occupational exposure limit

At request of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, the Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS), a committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands, recommends health-based occupational exposure limits for airborne substances to which people can be exposed in the air at the workplace. These recommendations serve as a basis in setting legally binding limit values by the Minister.

In 1994, the Health Council published an advice on the toxicity of carbon disulphide. In 2008, the Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (SCOEL), an advisory committee of the European Commission, published an evaluation on the toxicity of carbon disulphide as well. In the present advice, the Committee reconsidered the former health-based occupational exposure limits for carbon disulphide based on the report of SCOEL and additional studies published since 2006.