LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATED

TO HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS
Occupational
Safety and
Health (Use
and
Standards of
Exposure of
Chemical
Hazardous to
Health)
Regulations
2000
These regulations apply to
all places of work which
use(production,
processing, handling,
storage,transport,disposal
or treatment) chemical
hazardous to health.

Chemical Register
Must be accessible to all employees who are
exposed or likely to be exposed to chemical
hazardous to health at the workplace.
Useful to the safety and health officers,
chemical health risk assessors, firemen and
rescuers and doctors who manage patients
with chemical poisoning.
Must be properly maintained and updated
from time to time.

Chemical Health Risk Assessment
(CHRA)
The CHRA must contain the potential risk to
employees resulting from exposure to
chemical hazardous to health, method and
procedure adopted in chemical use, nature of
hazard, degree of exposure, measures of
control of exposure, exposure monitoring
programme, necessity for health surveillance
programme and requirement for the training.

Workplace Exposure Monitoring
a) Environmental Monitoring
Validated method used to monitor a wide
variety of airborne chemical substances in the
workplace environment.
b) Personal Monitoring
Personal monitoring is a technique that is used
to measure the level of exposure experienced by
the individual worker through sampling of the
air from the worker's breathing zone