Control banding is a useful tool to develop baseline safety requirements in laboratories and other settings - the most common example are the risk groups and biosafety levels developed by the NIH/CDC.   Our workteam developed a straightforward tool to create control bands applied to chemicals - chemical safety levels.  Parallelling the biosafety levels, four chemical safety levels are presented and the underlying logic of the assignment is discussed.

Hazard assessment of chemicals and chemical groups using a control banding technique

246th National Meeting (2013)

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