ACGIH Plan To Align With AIHA Falls Through, Leaving TLV Funding Model Unclear

Future funding for development and support of voluntary threshold limit values (TLVs), exposure limits that have sparked legal controversy due to OSHA's past reliance on them in crafting standards, remains unclear after two key health and safety groups scrapped efforts to form an alliance to support TLVs, sources say. The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), the organization that develops the consensus standards, has broken off talks with the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) on development of a strategic alliance that had been in negotiation for a ye