PELs   2 of 2     Examples

   
*All PELs are ppm (parts per million) and all here except chloroform are 8h-TWA (time weighted average over 8 hours).  **Chloroform's limit is a ceiling. acetone*
1000
  MeOH
200
EtOH
1000
  acetonitrile
40
EtOAc
400
  n-pentane
1000
n-hexane
500
  pyridine
5
i-PrOH
400
  dichloromethane
25
Et2O
400
  chloroform
50 **
formaldehyde
   0 .75
  carbon tetrachloride
   10
benzene
  10
  1,2-dichloroethane
50
acrolein
0 .10
  carbon disulfide
20

Permissible Exposure Limits
The legal "safe" workplace level....

expressed another way -- it's the level of airborne contamination which your employer is legally allowed to require you to work in

There are hundreds and hundreds more chemicals with PELs established by OSHA.  All but the single-digit and fractional PELs are very easily obeyed with the use of a (properly functioning) chemical hood.
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