LRD guides and handbook October 2024
Health and Safety Law 2024
However, the UK has no WEL for diesel engine exhaust (see page 80). After years of pressure from trade unions, a 2019 amendment to the EU Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive set a new exposure limit for diesel exhaust of 0.05mg/m3 (measured as elemental carbon). The new limit had to be implemented in EU member states, by 21 February 2023 at the latest, with underground mining and tunnel construction given a later deadline of 21 February 2026.