NS believes it is important that current and former employees can have confidence in the measures taken and that they are fully informed about any past and current health risks. We do not wish to overlook any detail, so a committee of independent experts has been asked to review the approach to chromium-6 within NS. Since employees have concerns, NS wishes to be fully transparent about this matter. This independent committee, which includes a medical toxicologist and representatives of the Works Council and FNV/Bureau Beroepsziekten, was established in December 2015 and reports on its findings and recommendations in the form of progress reports that are published here’.