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Summary
Summary
MAK values (Maximum Concentrations at the Workplace) and BAT values (Biological Tolerance Values) promote the protection of health at the workplace. They are an efficient indicator for the toxic potential of chemical compounds. This book contains a list of scientifically recommended threshold limit values for about 1000 chemical compounds. Carcinogens, germ cell mutagens, embryotoxicants, sensitizing substances and those potentially bearing a risk to pregnancy are treated separately. Of particular value are the lists of substances which were reviewed in the past 12 months, including substances being examined for the establishment of MAK and BAT values in coming years.
Author Notes
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is the central, self-governing research organisation that promotes research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany.
Through its commissions, the DFG provides scientific advice for politics and administration. The about 100 experts of the internationally acknowledged DFG-Senate Commission on the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area each year compile the List of MAK and BAT Values to reflect the latest scientific knowledge in occupational health and safety.
Table of Contents
| Maximum Concentrations at the Workplace | |
| I Significance, use and derivation of MAK values | |
| Definition | p. 9 |
| Purpose | p. 10 |
| Prerequisites | p. 10 |
| Derivation of MAK values | p. 11 |
| a Selection of substances and collection of data | p. 12 |
| b Values based on effects in man | p. 12 |
| c Values based on effects on animals | p. 13 |
| d Exceptional workplaces | p. 14 |
| e Odour, irritation and annoyance | p. 14 |
| f Habituation | p. 14 |
| Documentation | p. 14 |
| Publication | p. 15 |
| Mixtures of substances | p. 15 |
| Analytical controls | p. 16 |
| II List of substances | |
| a Substances with MAK values and substances listed in Sections lib and III to XV | p. 18 |
| b Substances for which no MAK value can be established at present | p. 142 |
| III Carcinogenic substances | |
| Category 1 p. 148 | |
| Category 2 p. 150 | |
| Category 3 p. 153 | |
| Category 3A p. 153 | |
| Category 3B p. 154 | |
| Category 4 p. 157 | |
| Category 5 p. 158 | |
| Groups of substances requiring special consideration | p. 159 |
| Carcinogenic medicines | p. 159 |
| Amines which form carcinogenic nitrosamines on nitrosation | p. 159 |
| Monocyclic aromatic amino and nitro compounds | p. 160 |
| Azo colourants | p. 161 |
| Pyrolysis products of organic materials | p. 161 |
| Fibrous dusts | p. 163 |
| Classification criteria | p. 164 |
| Classification | p. 166 |
| IV Sensitizing substances | p. 169 |
| a Criteria for assessment of contact allergens | p. 171 |
| b Criteria for assessment of respiratory allergens | p. 173 |
| c Designation of a substance as an allergen | p. 175 |
| d List of allergens | p. 176 |
| e Evaluation of members of specific groups of substances | p. 183 |
| V Aerosols | p. 185 |
| a General definitions | p. 185 |
| b Properties of aerosols which determine their effects | p. 186 |
| c Inhalation, deposition and clearance of aerosols in the respiratory tract | p. 186 |
| d Conventions for measuring concentrations of particles | p. 189 |
| e Fibrogenic aerosols | p. 191 |
| f General threshold limit value for dust | p. 191 |
| g Exposures exceeding the MAK value | p. 192 |
| h Ultrafine (aerosol) particles, their agglomerates and aggregates | p. 192 |
| VI Limitation of exposure peaks | p. 194 |
| VII Percutaneous absorption | p. 195 |
| VIII MAK values and pregnancy | p. 196 |
| IX Germ cell mutagens | p. 198 |
| X Substances requiring special consideration | p. 199 |
| a Organic peroxides | p. 199 |
| b Gasolines | p. 200 |
| c Metal-working fluids | p. 200 |
| d Hydraulic fluids and lubricants | p. 204 |
| e Metals and metal compounds | p. 205 |
| f Radioactive materials | p. 206 |
| Assessment Values in Biological Material | |
| XI Significance and use of BAT values | p. 207 |
| Definition | p. 207 |
| Prerequisites | p. 207 |
| Derivation of BAT values | p. 208 |
| Documentation | p. 208 |
| Purpose | p. 209 |
| Correlations between BAT and MAK values | p. 209 |
| Surveillance | p. 210 |
| Evaluation of analytical data | p. 210 |
| Allergenic substances | p. 211 |
| Carcinogenic substances | p. 211 |
| BAR | p. 211 |
| Mixtures of substances | p. 211 |
| XII List of substances | p. 213 |
| XIII Carcinogenic substances | p. 226 |
| XIV BLW | p. 234 |
| XV BAR | p. 235 |
| CAS Number Index | |
| CAS numbers of the substances listed in Sections II to XV and on the yellow pages | p. 237 |
| Appendix | |
| Members of the Commission and permanent guest contributors | p. 262 |
| Constitution and procedures of the Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area | p. 265 |
| Substances in the lists of MAK and BAT values reviewed in 2011/2012 | p. I |
| Substances being examined for the establishment of MAK and BAT values | p. V |
| Procedure of the Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area for making changes in or additions to the List of MAK and BAT Values | p. XXV |
