NOM-010-STPS

Workshop on the Development
of a Chemical Substance
Inventory for Mexico
September 2007
MEXICAN OFFICIAL STANDARD
NOM-010-STPS-1999
SAFETY AND HYGIENE CONDITIONS FOR
WORKPLACES WHERE CHEMICAL
SUBSTANCES CAPABLE OF GENERATING
OCCUPATIONAL POLLUTION ARE
HANDLED, TRANSPORTED, PROCESSED
OR STORED
Objective
To establish measures to prevent harm to the health of workers
exposed to chemicals polluting the occupational environment,
and to establish the maximum allowable limits of occupational
exposure at workplaces where chemicals are handled,
transported, processed or stored, which are capable of
contaminating the workplace environment and affecting worker
health due to their properties, concentration levels and time of
exposure.
CRITERIA
NOM-010-STPS-1999
Rat
(Oral route)
DL50
Rabbit
(Cutaneous route)
DL50
Rat
(Respiratory route)
DL50
NOM-018-STPS-2000
SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND
COMMUNICATING HAZARDS AND RISKS DUE
TO HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS AT THE
WORKPLACE
OBJECTIVE
To establish the minimum requirements for a system to
identify and communicate hazards and risks associated
with chemicals capable of affecting worker health or
damaging the workplace by reason of their physical or
chemical characteristics, toxicity, concentration and
time of exposure.
CRITERIA
NOM-018-STPS-1999
RISK OF
FLAMMABILITY
RISK TO
HEALTH
RISK OF
REACTIVITY
MEXICAN OFFICIAL STANDARD
NOM-028-STPS-2004
WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION —
SAFETY IN CHEMICAL PROCESSING
Objective
To establish the elements to organize safety in
the processing of chemicals, to prevent major
accidents and protect workers and the workplace
from harm.
Threshold—reporting quantity: the quantity at
or above which chemicals listed in Appendix A
are present or available at the workplace.
LISTS OF SUBSTANCES
NOM-010-STPS-1999 NOM-018-STPS
561
931
NOM-028-STPS
167
THANKS TO
Subsecretaría del Trabajo, Seguridad y Previsión Social
Dirección General de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo
Ing. Jesús Zepeda Vera
Subdirector de Normas de Salud en el Trabajo
Valencia No. 36, 2° piso
Colonia Insurgentes Mixcoac
Delegación Benito Juárez, C.P. 03920
México, D.F.
Tel: 30 00 32 98
e-mail
jzepeda@stps.gob.mx
webpage http://www.stps.gob.mx