EHS regulatory intelligence

Foresight monitors the environment, health and safety (EHS) rules in your markets, from exposure limits and process safety to emissions, waste and dangerous goods. Your EHS or HSE team sees which of your sites and tasks each change reaches.

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Occupational exposure limit review

  • IrelandImpact: Affected
  • IrelandImpact: Not affected
  • IrelandImpact: Not affected

Re-assess lead exposure against the new limits

Handles
Brass connectors, 2.9% lead
Limit
0.03 mg/m³, down from 0.15
Next
Measure lead in the air where connectors are crimped
Directive (EU) 2024/869 EUR-Lex (opens the source in a new tab)

ProjectsOccupational exposure limit review

  • Femi Adebayo
  • Hannah Okafor
  • Priya Nair
Tarnwick’s tasks at its sites in England and Ireland, each checked against the EU’s lower limits for lead at work, in force from 9 April 2026. Choose a row to see its evidence.
TaskSiteLeadImpact
Ireland2.9%Affected
IrelandNoneNot affected
IrelandNoneNot affected
EnglandNoneNot affected
EnglandNoneNot affected

Crimping connectors Ireland

Impact: Affected

Re-assess lead exposure against the new limits

Handles
Brass connectors, 2.9% lead
Limit
0.03 mg/m³, down from 0.15
Next
Measure lead in the air where connectors are crimped
Directive (EU) 2024/869 EUR-Lex (opens the source in a new tab)

EU countries had to apply lower limits for lead at work by 9 April 2026. Tarnwick is fictional. Choose any task to see the evidence.

What Foresight watches in EHS

The laws behind safety at work, major accidents, emissions, water and waste, market by market, and the hazards Foresight follows across all of them.

  • EU safety rules

    • Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic Substances Directive

      Binding limits, now including lead

    • Chemical Agents Directive

      Binding and indicative exposure limits

    • Asbestos at Work Directive

      Exposure limit and controls, tightened in 2023

    • Seveso III Directive

      Major-accident hazards at sites with dangerous substances

  • EU environmental rules

    • Industrial Emissions Directive

      Permits and emission limits for industrial sites

    • Medium Combustion Plants Directive

      Emission limits for mid-sized boilers and engines

    • Water Framework Directive

      Water status objectives and priority substances

    • Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

      Treatment rules, with producers paying to remove micropollutants

    • Ambient Air Quality Directive

      Ambient limits for pollutants, tightened for 2030

    • Waste Framework Directive

      What counts as waste and as hazardous waste

    • Waste Shipment Regulation

      Moving waste into, out of and within the EU

    • Landfill Directive

      What waste may go to landfill

  • Great Britain

    • COSHH

      Assessing and controlling hazardous substances at work

    • COMAH

      Major-accident hazards

    • Control of Asbestos Regulations

      Licensing, training and exposure controls for asbestos work

  • National rules in Europe

    • Germany’s Hazardous Substances Ordinance

      Handling hazardous substances at work

    • Germany’s Federal Immission Control Act

      Permits and emission limits for installations

    • France’s ICPE rules

      Classified installations, including PFAS in liquid waste

    • Italy’s Consolidated Law on Health and Safety at Work

      Decree 81/2008, on risk assessment and worker protection

    • The Netherlands’ Working Conditions Act

      Employers’ duties for safe and healthy work

    • The Netherlands’ Environment and Planning Act

      Permits for activities that affect the environment

    • Norway’s Working Environment Act

      Employers’ duties for a safe working environment

  • US safety rules

  • US environmental rules

    • EPCRA

      Emergency planning and the Toxics Release Inventory

    • Clean Air Act

      Air permits and hazardous air pollutants

    • Clean Water Act

      Discharge and stormwater permits

    • RCRA

      Hazardous waste, from generation to disposal

    • CERCLA

      Superfund clean-up of contaminated sites

  • China

    • Hazardous Chemicals Safety Law

      Hazardous chemicals from production to transport

    • Occupational Disease Prevention Law

      Workplace hazards and workers’ health checks

    • Ecological Environment Code

      China’s pollution and environmental laws in one code

    • Solid Waste Law

      Industrial and hazardous solid waste

  • Japan, Korea and Taiwan

    • Japan’s Industrial Safety and Health Act

      Safety data sheets, labels and exposure limits at work

    • Japan’s Fire Service Act

      Storing and handling hazardous materials

    • Korea’s Occupational Safety and Health Act

      Safety data sheets, labels and exposure limits at work

    • Korea’s Chemical Substances Control Act

      Handling hazardous chemicals and preventing accidents

    • Taiwan’s Occupational Safety and Health Act

      Risk assessment, hazard communication and worker protection

    • Taiwan’s Air Pollution Control Act

      Emission standards and permits for stationary sources

  • Rest of Asia-Pacific

    • Australia’s work health and safety laws

      The model regulations and the acts that adopt them

    • New Zealand’s Health and Safety at Work Act

      Duties at work, including for hazardous substances

    • Singapore’s Environmental Protection and Management Act

      Pollution control and hazardous substance licences

    • Thailand’s Factory Act

      Licensing and operating rules for factories

    • India’s Environment (Protection) Act

      The basis of India’s pollution and hazardous waste rules

  • Global agreements

  • At work, in every market

  • Emissions and waste

See how Monitoring works

Projects for EHS compliance

Foresight runs the work a change leaves behind, from a risk assessment to an updated safety data sheet. Your expert approves each result.

Protect your people

All 2 projects

Understand your exposure

All 7 projects

Keep documents current

All 4 projects

Keep watch

All 3 projects

The sectors EHS rules reach

Exposure limits, permits and major-accident rules reach every site that makes or handles chemicals. Each sector page opens on the changes Foresight is tracking for a typical company in it.

What is moving in EHS

Foresight keeps a public page for 219 EHS topics, each showing how active a framework, theme or substance is. These are the most active now.

All 219 EHS topics

What EHS teams ask

What does Foresight watch in EHS?

The EU’s directives on carcinogens, chemical agents and asbestos at work, Seveso III, and its rules on industrial emissions, water, air and waste. Great Britain’s COSHH, COMAH and asbestos regulations, OSHA’s standards, EPA’s Risk Management Program and the US environmental acts. Foresight also watches the safety and environmental laws of Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and India, the rules for transporting dangerous goods, the Basel Convention, and exposure limits and hazards such as asbestos, silica and lead in every market.

How does Foresight know which changes matter to us?

You name the substances you handle and the countries you operate in. Foresight scores each change against them and says why it was flagged, such as “You track lead, and you operate in Ireland.” An occupational exposure limit review goes further and checks a change against each task at each of your sites.

Does Foresight cover environmental rules too?

Yes. Foresight follows what a site may emit to air, discharge to water and send for disposal, under rules such as the Industrial Emissions Directive, the Water Framework Directive and the Clean Air Act, alongside the rules for safety at work and major accidents.

Where does the evidence come from?

From the official source: the official journal, the regulator’s notice or the agency’s decision. Every alert and every project result links to the document it rests on, so your team can check the wording directly.

Who signs off a project’s results?

The person you name at your organisation, such as your health and safety manager. In a project, nothing is final until they sign it off, and each result opens on the evidence behind it.

How do we start?

Book a demo and bring your sites and the substances you handle. The Foresight team will show you what is changing for them. You see a project’s scope and price before it starts.

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Bring your sites, your tasks and the substances you handle.

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