Use and Standard of Exposure of

Chemicals Hazardous to Health

(USECHH) Regulations, 2000

PART I - PRELIMINARY
1. Citation and commencement
Known as the Occupational Safety and
Health (Use and Standards of Exposure
of Chemicals Hazardous to Health)
Regulations 2000.
Operation on 4 April 2000.

2. Interpretation
"airborne concentration" = quantity of a
chemical measured in terms of its volume or
its mass in a specified volume of air or the
number of fibres, if the physical form of the
chemical is fibrous, in specified volume of air
which is carried by or through the air
"approved" = approved in writing by the
Director General

"assessor" = an employee or any other

person appointed by the employer and
registered with the Director General to carry
out assessments of risks to health
"ceiling limit = airborne concentration that
should not be exceeded during any part of
the working day

"chemicals" = chemical elements, or

compounds or mixtures thereof,(natural or
synthetic)
"chemicals hazardous to health= any
chemical or preparation which :a)listed in Schedule I or II
b)possesses any of the properties categorised in
Part B of Schedule I of the Occupational
Safety and Health (Classification, Packaging
and Labelling of Hazardous Chemicals)
Regulations 1997 [P. U. (A) 143/97]

c) comes within the definition of "pesticide" under

the Pesticides Act 1974 [Act 149]
d) listed in the First Schedule of the Environmental
Quality (Schedule Wastes) Regulations 1989 [P.
U. (A) 139/89]
"Chemical Safety Data Sheet" = document which
contains relevant information on a chemical and
is furnished in pursuance of the Occupational
Safety and Health (Classification, Packaging, and
Labelling of Hazardous Chemicals) Regulations
1997 [P. U. (A) 143/97]

"Director General" = Director General of

Occupational Safety and Health
"engineering control equipment = any
equipment which is used to control exposure
of employees to chemicals hazardous to
health
"health surveillance" = any examination and
investigations which may be necessary to
detect exposure levels

"hygiene technician" = an employee or any

person appointed by the employer and
registered with the Director General to carry
out any inspection on engineering control
equipment installed in a place of work or to
carry out chemical exposure monitoring
"maximum exposure limit" = a fifteen-minute
time-weighted average airborne concentration
(three times the eight-hour time-weighted
average airborne concentration of the
chemicals specified in Schedule I)

"medical surveillance" = monitoring of a

person for identifying changes in health
status due to occupational exposure to
chemicals hazardous to health
"occupational health doctor" = a doctor
registered with the Director General to
conduct medical surveillance programmes of
employees
"permissible exposure limit" = the maximum
exposure limit