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Cal/OSHA Proposed PEL for n-propyl bromide, Part 3 - Our Motivations
As independent consultants, we advise people like you in solving (or, better yet, avoiding) problems in critical cleaning, industrial cleaning, and surface preparation. We keep you updated on factors that could impact your ability to achieve a high quality product. This includes regulatory activities.
Several colleagues suggested that we write about Cal/OSHA PEL for nPB, but that we not state our viewpoint. Instead, we decided to provide you with our assessment of the situation. What motivates our point of view? Let us consider the consequences of manufacturers losing the ability to use yet another highly-effective cleaning chemical. Could restrictive regulations be good for BFK Solutions?
Well, we might get more business, as you frantically scramble to find a substitute. While we welcome great projects and wonderful clients, we prefer projects that involve helping you develop productive, reliable critical and industrial cleaning processes , growing your business, as wells as protecting your workers, your neighbors, and the environment.
We maintain that to achieve excellent manufacturing, local, national, and global regulations and standards must be developed in a scientific, practical, transparent, and defensible manner.
In the mid-1990’s, we were involved in initial performance evaluations of nPB. It is an aggressive chemistry, one that has many desirable performance properties. As an aggressive chemical, it MUST be utilized carefully. We see nPB has having properties that are of value in critical cleaning.
