S.L. 646.16 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Health and Safety at Work Act;

"activity involving chemical agents" means any work in which chemical agents are used, or are intended to be used, in any process, including production, handling, storage, transport or disposal and treatment, or which result from such work;

"Authority" means the Occupational Health and Safety Authority established by virtue of article 4 of the Act;

"biological limit value" means the limit of the concentration in the appropriate biological medium of the relevant agent, its metabolite, or an indicator of effect; "chemical agent" means any chemical element or compound, on its own or admixed, as it occurs in the natural state or as produced, used or released, including release as waste, by any work activity, whether or not produced intentionally and whether or not placed on the market; "hazard" means the intrinsic property of a chemical agent with the potential to cause harm; "hazardous chemical agent" means:

(a) any chemical agent which meets the criteria for classification as hazardous within any physical and/or health hazard classes laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, whether or not that chemical agent is classified under that Regulation;

(b) any chemical agent which, whilst not meeting the criteria for classification as hazardous in accordance with paragraph (a) may, because of its physic-chemical, chemical or toxicological properties and the way it is used or is present in the workplace, present a risk to the safety and health of workers, including any chemical agent that is assigned on occupational exposure limit value under regulation 3; "health surveillance" means the assessment of an individual worker to determine the state of health of that individual, as related to exposure to specific chemical agents at work;

"occupational exposure limit value" means, unless otherwise specified, the limit of the time-weighted average of the concentration of a chemical agent in the air within the breathing zone of a worker in relation to a specified reference period; "risk" means the likelihood that the potential for harm will be attained under the conditions of use and, or exposure.