{"id":507,"date":"2024-07-09T10:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T07:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/?p=507"},"modified":"2024-07-09T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T08:26:36","slug":"subat-2021-yeni-oeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/subat-2021-yeni-oeller\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2021: New OELs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-content-type=\"heading\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\">New OELs come into force in February 2021<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mf-initial\" data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-was-processed=\"true\">\n<p>Decree numbered 2020-1546 dated December 9, 2020, published in the Official Gazette at the end of 2020, for certain chemical substances.\u00a0<strong>new binding OELs<\/strong>\u00a0determines . Therefore, the regulation protecting exposed workers is being amended for 9 articles, 5 new OELs are being integrated and will come into force on February 1, 2021.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New binding OELs<\/strong>\u00a0: wood dust, monomeric vinyl chloride, hexavalent chromium and its compounds, refractory ceramic fibers classified as carcinogenic, silica (quartz, cristobalite and tridymite alveolar dust).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Binding OELs vary<\/strong>\u00a0: Acrylamide, Bromoethylene, 1,3-butadiene, 1,2-epoxypropane (propylene oxide), formaldehyde, hydrazine, 2-nitropropane, ethylene oxide, o-toluidine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 data-content-type=\"heading\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\">What are binding OELs?<\/h2>\n<div data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-was-processed=\"true\">\n<p>Occupational exposure limit value (OEL), which determines the maximum exposure level (time-weighted average) to hazardous substances\u00a0<strong>for worker health<\/strong>\u00a0It is a measure of protection. For some chemicals\u00a0<strong>binding OELs<\/strong>\u00a0R. 4412-149 of the French Labor Code. It is defined in the article. These safety measures are divided into two exposure periods for certain substances:\u00a0<strong>long term OEL<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 TWA (during 8 hours of exposure) and\u00a0<strong>short term OEL<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 STEL (15 minutes of exposure).<\/p>\n<p>Unlike indicative OELs,\u00a0<strong>binding occupational exposure limit values<\/strong>\u00a0It forces employers to comply with these worker protection measures. Compliance with these regulations, such as gas masks\u00a0<strong>may result in the use of personal respiratory protective equipment. In many cases, these safety requirements also apply to portable, fixed gas detectors or\u00a0<\/strong>such as the use of reagent tubes.\u00a0<strong>for measuring gases and chemicals<\/strong>\u00a0It requires the implementation of protocols and solutions\u00a0.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 data-content-type=\"heading\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\">Compliance with new February 2021 OELs<\/h2>\n<h3 data-content-type=\"heading\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\">Gas detection equipment compatibility<\/h3>\n<div data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-was-processed=\"true\">\n<p><strong>Made in OELs on February 1, 2021<\/strong>\u00a0As part of these changes, some gas detection equipment\u00a0<strong>uyumlu olmas\u0131 gerekiyor .\u00a0<\/strong>Whether it is a portable\u00a0gas detector or a fixed detector, the monitoring device will need to be reconfigured.<\/p>\n<p>For example, for long-term OEL:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The alarm threshold of the formaldehyde detector will drop to 0.3 ppm<\/li>\n<li>The alarm threshold of the hydrazine detector will drop to 0.01 ppm<\/li>\n<li>And the alarm threshold of the ethylene oxide detector will drop to 1 ppm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where necessary, a combination of\u00a0gas controllers , fixed transmitters and portable gas monitoring devices\u00a0<strong>with software update<\/strong>\u00a0together\u00a0<strong>restructuring<\/strong>\u00a0will be required. Finally, relevant portable devices and\u00a0fixed gas detectors\u00a0must be recalibrated following the February 1, 2021 OEL change.<\/p>\n<p>For some lines of connected equipment, such as Blackline Safety gas detectors,\u00a0threshold changes can be made remotely for the brand's entire fleet of devices in a few clicks, without going to a calibration station.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 data-content-type=\"heading\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\">Reminder about respiratory protection and OELs<\/h3>\n<div data-content-type=\"text\" data-appearance=\"default\" data-element=\"main\" data-was-processed=\"true\">\n<p>The new OELs provide, first of all, a reminder of the dangerousness of exposure to these substances, and secondly, they provide a reminder to all stakeholders\u00a0to deal with these hazards.\u00a0<strong>Reminds us that respiratory protection solutions are available. By treating OEL compliance as a minimum prevention goal, many measures can be taken to minimize risks.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Preventive measures should be taken<\/strong>\u00a0. With this in mind, teams can be provided with a variety of respiratory protection equipment to improve safety levels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore, February 2021 will be included in the new OEL list.<\/strong>\u00a0When we look at it, we can see that wearing a dust mask provides additional protection against the dangers of exposure to silica and wood dust.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the use of a\u00a0gas mask, whether a half mask or a full face mask, can better deal with the danger of substances affected by OEL changes. However, choosing the right\u00a0gas mask filter\u00a0is essential. For example, this would include using a class P3 filter for maximum filtration protection against dusts (wood, silica), using a type AX filter for protection against ethylene oxide, and using a type K gas filter for protection against formaldehyde and hydrazine. Wearing a\u00a0powered air-purifying respirator\u00a0using the appropriate filter will provide more comfortable filtering protection (breathing effort on the filter is made by the machine, not its user).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, occupational exposure limits set by law<\/strong>\u00a0Beyond\u00a0all supplied air breathing apparatus solutions allow workers to work in contaminated atmospheres well beyond the OEL. In an area contaminated above the OEL, the use of a supplied air respirator will provide breathing air from a completely independent source. Likewise, wearing a\u00a0SCBA\u00a0(self-contained breathing apparatus) will completely isolate its wearer from polluted air thanks to the breathing air cylinder attached to the respiratory protection mask.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u015eubat 2021&#8217;de yeni OEL&#8217;ler y\u00fcr\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011fe giriyor 2020 y\u0131l\u0131 sonunda Resmi Gazete&#8217;de yay\u0131mlanan 9 Aral\u0131k 2020 tarihli 2020-1546 say\u0131l\u0131 Kararname, belirli kimyasal maddeler i\u00e7in\u00a0yeni ba\u011flay\u0131c\u0131 OEL&#8217;ler\u00a0belirliyor . Bu nedenle, maruz kalan i\u015f\u00e7ileri koruyan d\u00fczenleme 9 madde i\u00e7in de\u011fi\u015ftiriliyor, 5 yeni OEL entegre ediliyor ve 1 \u015eubat 2021&#8217;de y\u00fcr\u00fcrl\u00fc\u011fe giriyor. Yeni ba\u011flay\u0131c\u0131 OEL&#8217;ler\u00a0: ah\u015fap tozu, monomerik vinil [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haberler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazolcum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}