Background
There are not just tools to calculate the external exposure, there are also tools that can estimate the concentrations of chemicals that will occur in human biological matrices (such as blood, urine, ...) after the substance ended up in the body via inhalation, dermal and / or oral route. For some parameters, there are very nice linear relationships between concentration in breathing air during the work shift and urinary concentrations in the after-the-work shift, while for other substances there are sometimes more complex relationships, or even none at all. A fairly recent and well documented model to estimate internal exposure is IndusChemFate (Jongeneelen and ten Berge 2011). The model can be downloaded as an Excelapplication on the Cefic website.

Legislation

• KB Chemical agents (11/03/2002) (Dutch)
• KB Carcinogenic and mutagenic agents (02/12/1993) (Dutch)

Standards

• NBN EN 689:1995 Workplace atmospheres - Guidance for the assessment of exposure by inhalation to chemical agents for comparison with limit values and measurement strategy

Documentation

Tools

• IRSST Biological monitoring concentration convertor
• IndusChemFate Tool van Jongeneelen and ten Berge, Presentation (Dutch) NVvA congress 2012
• CEFIC LRI Toolbox

Websites

• http://www.cefic-lri.org/lri-toolbox/induschemfate
• http://www.employment.belgium.be/ has a specific page on chemical agents (Dutch)