TABLE OF BIOLOGICAL EXPOSURE INDICES

Exposure Determinant Sampling Time BEI

Acetone Acetone in urine End of shift 50mg/litre

Arsenic Sum of inorganic arsenic metabolites End of shift at end of work week 100µg/litre

Cadmium Cadmium in blood Not critical 0.044µmol/litre (5µg/litre)

Cadmium in urine Not critical 5µmol/mol creatinine (5µg/g

creatinine)

Carbon monoxide Carboxyhaemoglobin in blood End of shift 3.5% of haemoglobin

Chromium (VI) water-soluble fume Chromium in urine End of shift at end of work week 0.6µmol/litre (30µg/litre)

Cobalt Cobalt in urine End of shift at end of work week 15µg/litre

2-Ethoxyethanol and 2-Ethoxyethyl 2-ethoxyacetic acid in urine End of shift at end of work week 100mg/g creatinine
acetate

Fluorides Fluoride in urine Prior to shift 160µmol/litre (3mg/litre)

End of shift 530µmol/litre (10mg/litre)

n-Hexane 2,5-hexanedione in urine End of shift 5mg/litre

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Lead (inorganic) (2010) Lead in blood Not critical See section on lead biological exposure
indices

Lead in urine Not critical 1.5 µmol/litre (150µg/litre)

Mercury Mercury in urine Not critical 0.25µmol/litre (50µg/litre)

Methyl alcohol Methyl alcohol in urine End of shift 15mg/litre

Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) MEK in urine End of shift 2mg/litre

Methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) MIBK in urine End of shift 2mg/litre

Organophosphates Cholinesterase activity in blood Recommended Action

If less than 60% of Baseline: suspend

from working with pesticides which
inhibit cholinesterase activity

If less than 80% of Baseline: repeat

test to confirm result

If greater than 75% of Baseline: permit

a previously suspended worker to
recommence normal duties

Pentachlorophenol (PCP) Total PCP (including conjugates) in Prior to last shift of week 1mg/litre
urine
Exposure Determinant Sampling Time BEI

Phenol Total phenol in urine End of shift 250mg/g creatinine

Sodium fluoroacetate (1080) Sodium fluoroacetate in urine End of shift 15µg/litre

Styrene Mandelic acid in urine End of shift 1g/litre

Trichloroethylene Trichloracetic acid in urine End of work week 100mg/litre

Xylene Methylhippuric acid in urine End of shift 1.5g/litre