Reducing worker’s exposure to chemicals is a fundamental concept in the protection of employee health. Even for chemicals for which an occupational exposure limit such as a Threshold Limit Value® exists, reducing exposures to the lowest feasible level is a common objective.
After several hours of work, the laboratory chemist ignored the slight discomfort in his hand and worked to finish the long procedure.
The lab technician was cleaning metal parts with Hexane. The parts were places in a beaker of Hexane which was on a hot plate. Nearby was a plastic wash bottle filled approximately 50% with Hexane.
Industrial waste whose elimination legally falls to the producers, is distinguished from domestic waste by its origin and nature. The chemical risk will be linked to its physicochemical and toxicological characteristics : explosive, flammable, combustive, irritant, corrosive, or toxic.
