Reproductive hazards: a model protection policy for the chemical industry

This chapter is based on research sponsored by the chemical industry to develop practical guidelines for protecting employees exposed to reproductive hazards in worksites for which reduction in exposure levels to safe limits is not possible. Because relatively little information is available to permit the establishment of acceptable exposures, a related section of the research was done by toxicologists to address the issue of identifying reproductively hazardous sites. The policy was designed to be implemented in the context of high uncertainty as to what risks actually exist.