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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Legislation as Topic > Threshold Limit Values
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Legislation as Topic > Threshold Limit Values
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Environmental Exposure > Occupational Exposure > Threshold Limit Values
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Environmental Exposure > Occupational Exposure > Threshold Limit Values
... > Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Environmental Pollution > Environmental Exposure > Occupational Exposure > Threshold Limit Values

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Threshold Limit Values  

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  • Standards for limiting worker exposure to airborne contaminants. They are the maximum concentration in air at which it is believed that a particular substance will not produce adverse health effects with repeated daily exposure. It can be a time-weighted average (TLV-TWA), a short-term value (TLV-STEL), or an instantaneous value (TLV-Ceiling). They are expressed either as parts per million (ppm) or milligram per cubic meter (mg/m3).

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