The Nordic Expert Group
The Nordic Expert Group - a Nordic collaboration for production of criteria documents on chemicals for occupational exposure limits.
The Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG) consists of scientific experts from the Nordic countries representing different fields of science, such as toxicology, occupational hygiene and occupational medicine. The main task is to produce criteria documents to be used by the regulatory authorities of the Nordic countries as the scientific basis for setting occupational exposure limits (OELs) for chemical substances. Thus, the actual setting of an OEL is a national concern.
NEG is mainly financed by the Swedish Work Environment Authority and the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. All countries contribute with scientific expertise. The documents, written in English, are published by the University of Gothenburg in the scientific serial Arbete och Hälsa. The documents are also available as pdf downloads via this website under Publications.
The decision to produce a document is mainly based on requests from the Nordic regulatory authorities. The availability of scientific data, recently published criteria documents and ongoing activities at the international level are also considered.
The responsibility of preparing a document is allocated to a scientist in one of the Nordic countries.
NEG has a bilateral co-operation with US NIOSH and the Dutch Expert Committee on Occupational Safety (DECOS).
New criteria document
Occupational chemical exposures and cardiovascular disease, opens in new window
Inorganic chloramines, opens in a new window
Annual report 2021
NEG Annual report 2021, in Swedish (pdf, will open in a new window)
Publications
Ongoing documents
- Fluorine, chlorine and bromine
- Reduced ambient oxygen levels
- Approaches for OEL setting of carcinogens
- Occupational chemical exposures in combination with unusual working hours
- Wood dust
- Occupational chemical exposures and COPD
- Cement dust
- Crystalline silica
- Respirable and inhalable dusts.
Author instructions
NEG strives towards a common procedure and format for the documents. Information and guidelines how to elaborate a NEG criteria document is found in the instructions below.
Instructions to authors (pdf, will open in a new window)
Links
Nordic research institutes and regulatory authorities relating to the working environment
Sweden
Swedish Work Environment Authority (Arbetsmiljöverket)
Norway
The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority (Arbeidstilsynet), (will open in a new window)
Denmark
The Danish Working Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet), (will open in a new window)
Finland
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (Työterveyslaitos), (will open in a new window)
Nordic OELs
Denmark (will open in a new window)
Finland (will open in a new window)
Norway (will open in a new window)
Sweden (will open in a new window)
Contacts
Experts:
Gunnar Johanson (chairman)
Institute of Environmental Medicine (will open in a new window)
Karolinska Institutet
Box 210
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 8 524 877 52
E-mail: gunnar.johanson(at)ki.se
Mattias Öberg
Institute of Environmental Medicine (will open in a new window)
Karolinska Institutet
Box 210
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 524 885 05
E-mail: mattias.oberg(at)ki.se
Anne Thoustrup Saber
National Research Centre for the Working Environment (will open in a new window)
Lersø Parkallé 105
DK-2100 København Ø
Denmark
Tel: +45 39 16 52 12
E-mail: ats(at)ami.dk
Piia Taxell
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (will open in a new window)
PB 18
FI-00032 Arbetshälsoinstitutet
Finland
Tel: +358 30 474 2234
E-mail: piia.taxell(at)ttl.fi
Merete D. Bugge
National Institute of Occupational Health (will open in a new window)
PB 5330 Majorstuen
NO-0304 Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 23 19 53 83
E-mail: merete.bugge(at)stami.no
Helge Johnsen
National Institute of Occupational Health (will open in a new window)
PB 5330 Majorstuen
NO-0304 Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 23 19 53 14
E-mail: helge.johnsen(at)stami.no
Gry Koller
National Institute of Occupational Health (will open in a new window)
PB 5330 Majorstuen
NO-0304 Oslo
Norway
Tel: +47 23 19 53 98
E-mail: gry.koller(at)stami.no
Secretariat:
Anna-Karin Alexandrie (scientific secretary)
Jill Järnberg (scientific secretary)
Swedish Work Environment Authority
SE-112 79 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel: +46 10 730 90 84/91 79
E-mail: anna-karin.alexandrie(at)av.se
E-mail: jill.jarnberg(at)av.se
Last updated 2022-02-23