Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) 01
Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) 01 : [sometimes, Permissible Exposure Level] (a) An occupational health standard to safeguard employees against dangerous chemicals or contaminants in the workplace. [Last, 1983: A Dictionary of Epidemiology]; (b) The legal limit for occupational exposure to airborne concentrations of several hundred agents. Established by OSHA (U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration). [REAP, 1995: Residential Exposure Assessment Project]; (c) OSHA's number that tells the concentration of a chemical in air that a worker may breathe for a given period of time, without experiencing adverse effects, (see TLV). [University of Kentucky, 1999: Glossary of Safety Terms]
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