The Formaldehyde Value Chain Alliance promoting worker safety receives the European Association’s Silver Collaboration Award

The alliance of the formaldehyde producers and workers has been praised for their work in improving the safety of workers in the formaldehyde sector.

The Alliance fostered collaboration between Formaldehyde  producers (Formacare – a sector group of Cefic), trade unions represented by ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) and industriAll European Trade Union, and employers’ association ECEG (European Chemicals Employers Group). As a result of this collaboration, all four parties agreed to tighten the EU-wide binding occupational exposure limit (BOEL) for formaldehyde and decrease the maximum allowed exposure threshold from up to 2ppm to 0,3 ppm. Following the agreement reached by the Alliance members, this value has been approved by the European Parliament earlier in March during the revision of the EU Directive on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work (Directive 2004/37/EC).

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