About

  • Secretariat: ANSI (United States)
    Committee Manager:
    Dr Emily Lee
  • Chairperson (until end 2029):
    Mr Steven Verpaele
  • ISO Technical Programme Manager [TPM]:
    Ms Wenyan Li
    ISO Editorial Manager [EM]:
    Ms Sanjali Jain
  • Creation date: 1980

Scope

Elaboration of standards in the field of workplace atmospheres excluding the establishment of limit values. The standards are used as references in promulgated health standards, by practitioners of occupational/industrial hygiene in workplace monitoring for compliance purposes and for health outcomes, by sampling hardware manufacturers in design and required performance of said hardware, and by researchers in the field of occupational health and industrial hygiene.

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Sustainable Development Goals

This committee contributes with 57 standards to the following Sustainable Development Goals:

3
Good Health and Well-being
8
Decent Work and Economic Growth
9
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
55

Published ISO standards *

10

ISO standards under development *

23
Participating members
20
Observing members

* number includes updates

Reference Title Type
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 1   Particle size-selective sampling and analysis Working group
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 2   Inorganic substances Working group
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 3   Gases Working group
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 4   Organic Compounds Working group
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 7   Silica Working group
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 8   Assessment of contamination of skin and surfaces from airborne chemicals Working group
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 9   Sampling pump performance Working group
ISO/TC 146/SC 2/WG 10   General aspects Working group
Liaison Committees to ISO/TC 146/SC 2

The committees below can access the documents of ISO/TC 146/SC 2:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 8/SC 12 Ships and marine technology - Large yachts ISO
ISO/TC 33 Refractories ISO
ISO/TC 158 Analysis of gases ISO
ISO/TC 229 Nanotechnologies ISO

 

Liaison Committees from ISO/TC 146/SC 2

ISO/TC 146/SC 2 can access the documents of the committees below:

Reference Title ISO/IEC
ISO/TC 229 Nanotechnologies ISO

 

Organizations in liaison (Category A and B)
Acronym Title Category
IMA-Europe Industrial Minerals Association - Europe AISBL A

ISO/TC 146/SC 2 - Secretariat

ANSI (United States)

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Building 2703
1095 Willow dale road
Morgantown 26505 West Virginia
United States

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