DGUV Information 213-705e - Recommendations of the German Social Accident Insurance Institutions for a chemical safety assessment ("EGU") in accordance with the Hazardous Substances Ordinance Flour dust in bakeries

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EGU provide the companies with practical information how flour dust can be minimised according to the state of the art.

If these recommendations are applied, it can be assumed for the purpose of the risk assessment that the level of airborne flour dust can be kept below 3,5 mg/m3.

The user of these recommendations must review the validity of the assumptions and document the results of this review immediately when changes to the working procedures/ conditions have occurred and otherwise at least once a year.

Following these recommendations the other requirements of the Hazardous Substances Ordinance, particularly sections 6 (covering the gathering of information) and 7 (covering the obligation to observe the ranking of protective measures) continue to be mandatory.