Carcinogens or Mutagens at Work

L.N. 318 of 2019

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 424)

Protection of Workers from the Risks related to Exposure to

Carcinogens or Mutagens at Work

(Amendment) Regulations, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 12 of the

Occupational Health and Safety Authority Act, the Minister for

European Affairs and Equality, after consultation with the

Occupational Health and Safety Authority, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Protection of Workers

from the Risks related to Exposure to Carcinogens or Mutagens at

Work (Amendment) Regulations, 2019, and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Protection of Workers from the

Risks related to Exposure to Carcinogens or Mutagens at Work

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Sub-regulation (6) of regulation 1 of the principal

regulation shall be substituted by the following

"(6) The scope of these regulations is to implement

(a)

Directive 2014/27/EU of the European

Parliament and of the Council amending Council

Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers

from risks related to exposure to carcinogens or

mutagens at work; and

(b) Directive 2017/2398 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017

amending Council Directive 2004/37/EC on the

protection of workers from the risks related to

exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work.".

Sub-regulation (1) of regulation 14 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(1) The employer shall make arrangements for carrying

out relevant health surveillance of workers for whom the results

of the assessment referred to in regulation 3 reveal a risk to

health or safety. The doctor or Authority may indicate that health

surveillance must continue after the end of exposure for as long

as they consider it to be necessary to safeguard the health of the

worker concerned.".

In Schedule I of the principal regulations, immediately Amends

Schedule I of

after item 5 thereof, there shall be added the following new item

the principal

regulations.

"(6) Work involving exposure to respirable crystalline

silica dust generated by work process".

Schedule III of the principal regulations shall be substituted Substitutes

Schedule III of

by the following

the principal

regulations.

"SCHEDULE III

(Regulation 16)

Limit values and other directly related provisions

Limit values for occupational exposure

Limit values ( 3 )

CAS

1 )

mg/m 3 ppm

Transitional

f/ml ( 6 )

Name of agent

Notation

EC No (

No ( 2 )

measures

5 )

(

( 4 )

Hardwood

__

__

__

__

__

Limit value 3

2 ( 7 )

mg/m 3 until

17 January

Chromium

__

__

0.005

__

__

__

Limit value

0.010 mg/m 3

compounds

until 17

which are

January 2025

carcinogens

within the

Limit value

meaning of

0.025 mg/m 3

paragraph (a)

for

welding or

"carcinogen" in

plasma

regulation 2

cutting

(as chromium)

processes or

similar work

processes

that generate

fume

until 17

January 2025

Refractory

__

__

__

__

0.3

__

ceramic fibres

which are

carcinogens

within the

meaning of

paragraph (a)

of

"carcinogen" in

regulation 2

Respirable

__

__

__

__

__

0.1 ( 8 )

crystalline

silica dust

Benzene

200-753-7

71-43-2

3.25

__

skin ( 9 )

Vinyl chloride

200-831-0

75-01-4

2.6

__

__

monomer

Ethylene oxide

200-849-9

75-21-8

1.8

__

skin ( 9 )

1,2-

200-879-2

75-56-9

2.4

__

__

Epoxypropane

Acrylamide

201-173-7

79-06-1

0.1

__

__

skin ( 9 )

2-Nitropropane

201-209-1

79-46-9

__

__

o-Toluidine

202-429-0

95-53-4

0.5

0.1

__

skin ( 9 )

1,3-Butadiene

203-450-8

106-99-

2.2

__

__

Hydrazine

206-114-9

302-01-

0.013

0.01

__

skin ( 9 )

Bromoethylene

209-800-6

593-60-

4.4

__

__

( 1 ) EC No, i.e. Einecs, ELINCS or NLP, is the official number of the substance within the

European Union, as defined in Section 1.1.1.2 in Annex VI, Part 1, to Regulation (EC) No 1272/

2008. ( 2 ) CAS No: Chemical Abstract Service Registry Number.

( 3 ) Measured or calculated in relation to a reference period of eight hours.

( 4 ) mg/m 3 = milligrams per cubic metre of air at 20 °C and 101.3 kPa (760 mm mercury pressure).

( 5 ) ppm = parts per million by volume in air (ml/m 3 ).

( 6 ) f/ml = fibres per millilitre.

( 7 ) Inhalable fraction: if hardwood dusts are mixed with other wood dusts, the limit value shall

apply to all wood dusts present in that mixture.

( 8 ) Respirable fraction.

( 9 ) Substantial contribution to the total body burden via dermal exposure possible.