Ensuring coherence in occupational biomonitoring: a call for alignment and collaboration

This commentary addresses a critical and timely issue, namely the continued exclusion of certified occupational hygienists from conducting exposure assessments using the biomonitoring approach, as reflected in the recent EU-OSHA 2025 guidance. Current EU regulations frame biomonitoring within medical surveillance. This regulatory structure limits the use of biomonitoring as a preventive tool and sidelines professionals who are essential to exposure assessment and workplace safety. We are a multidisciplinary team comprising certified occupational hygienists and occupational medical doctors. We believe that the EU OSHA guidance represents a missed opportunity for collaboration. We hope this commentary will reach members of the EU regulatory bodies encouraging them to reconsider the current framing and promote a more integrated approach. By clarifying roles and fostering cooperation between occupational hygienists and physicians, we can ensure that biomonitoring fulfills its full potential in protecting worker health.

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Environment International
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2025-12-18
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.110006
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Occupational exposure and asthma
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Ensuring coherence in occupational biomonitoring: a call for alignment and collaboration

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Abstract

This commentary addresses a critical and timely issue, namely the continued exclusion of certified occupational hygienists from conducting exposure assessments using the biomonitoring approach, as reflected in the recent EU-OSHA 2025 guidance. Current EU regulations frame biomonitoring within medical surveillance. This regulatory structure limits the use of biomonitoring as a preventive tool and sidelines professionals who are essential to exposure assessment and workplace safety. We are a multidisciplinary team comprising certified occupational hygienists and occupational medical doctors. We believe that the EU OSHA guidance represents a missed opportunity for collaboration. We hope this commentary will reach members of the EU regulatory bodies encouraging them to reconsider the current framing and promote a more integrated approach. By clarifying roles and fostering cooperation between occupational hygienists and physicians, we can ensure that biomonitoring fulfills its full potential in protecting worker health.

Environment InternationalVol. 207
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FI), Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (CH), Laboratoire National de Santé (LU), Centre universitaire de médecine générale et santé publique, Lausanne (CH), Shell (Netherlands) (NL), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT), Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité (FR), Université Grenoble Alpes (FR), KU Leuven (BE)
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