RISKOFDERM: Risk Assessment of Occupational Dermal Exposure to Chemicals. An Introduction to a Series of Papers on the Development of a Toolkit

Dermal exposure to industrial chemicals during work is of major concern in the risk assessment of chemicals. Current approaches in procedures for European legislation are not based on experimental data on dermal exposures in workplaces because these are lacking. A large project, with four interrelated work parts, was funded by the European...

The RISKOFDERM project: T2 - RISKOFDERM - Europas Beschäftigte sollen nicht länger ihre Haut zu Markte tragen

Reducing dermal exposure to chemicals is a challenging task for occupational safety and health. In the European RISKOFDERM project 15 institutes in ten member states gather dermal exposure information and measurement data in relation to various tasks. First results are available. Based on this information i) a predictive model for estimating...