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Public exposure guidelines are intended to predict how members of the general public would be affected (that is, the severity of the hazard) if they are exposed to a particular hazardous chemical in an emergency response situation. The most common public exposure guidelines are: AEGLs (Acute Exposure Guideline Levels) ERPGs (Emergency Response Planning Guidelines) TEELs (Temporary Emergency Exposure…...

Protective Action Criteria for Chemicals (PACs) dataset is a hierarchy-based system of the three common public exposure guideline systems: AEGLs, ERPGs, and TEELs. A particular hazardous substance may have values in any or all of these systems. The PACs dataset implements the following hierarchy when choosing which values to use for the PACs: Final, 60-minute AEGL values Interim, 60-minute AEGL values…...

Temporary Emergency Exposure Limits (TEELs) are guidelines designed to predict the response of members of the general public to different concentrations of a chemical during an emergency response incident. Note: TEEL values are NO longer included specifically in ALOHA, see PACs. TEELs estimate the concentrations at which most people will begin to experience health effects if they are exposed to a…...

Emergency response personnel may have never heard the acronym AEGL, but that doesn’t mean it does not play a major role in the decision making process at almost all emergency responses to hazardous materials.  AEGL’s and ERPG’s are the most widely used exposure guidelines in emergency responses to hazardous materials.  In fact, did you know…...

The EPA’s Risk Management Plan (RMP) rule was the first time many EHS professionals had ever heard of Emergency Response Planning Guidelines (ERPGs).  That was 1999, and still today 2007 there are many EHS professionals outside the PSM/RMP arena who still have not heard of ERPG’s.  This article is an attempt to explain what they…...