It has come to my attention that expert testimony in support of disability claims based on employer negligence for workers exposed to operations involving asbestos have applied a threshold limit value (TLV) erroneously as a basis for negligence. Over the period of 1946 to 1970, the American Confere
Alternative sources of TLVs
β Scribed by Dr. Reinier L. Zielhuis; Anton A. E. Wibowo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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The two fundamental issues raised by Castleman and Ziem [ 19881 concern the scientific validity of the evidence on which threshold limit values (TLVs) are based and the process by which a given value is selected. The climate of social opinion has changed since the TLV committee was first establishe
There can be little doubt that the opinions expressed by Castleman and Ziem [ 19881 address an important and challenging problem. The evidence submitted must arouse serious doubts as to the scientific reliability of the TLV list published annually and used worldwide as a guideline, if not as law-as