This guide is crafted to help companies through the long-term process of adapting their chemicals management strategies in the light of REACH.
Find out how you and your organisation can:
Identify your chemical risks - resources are described to help you compile inventories and understand what you are dealing with.
Communicate effectively within your organisation to maximise opportunities linked to the changing marketplace stemming from REACH.
Communicate with suppliers and customers, with tips on how to get the information and outcomes you require.
Collect the risk-assessment data needed to support substances into the future.
Benefit from detailed technical appendices, describing:
Technical guidance available and being developed under the REACH implementation projects (RIPs).
The forthcoming Globally Harmonised System (GHS) of chemicals classification and labelling.
How to put together an intelligent testing strategy that minimises data requirements.
How to select REACH consultants and testing laboratories.
See how leading firms are tackling these and other challenges:
Boots
Ciba
Skanska
S. Black
Dow
DuPont
Shell Chemicals
BASF
And discover how industry bodies in the automotive, electronics, personal care, construction and detergents sectors are approaching the question of chemical risks.
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CHAPTER ONE
Introduction: A pressing chemicals agenda
REACH fact file
CHAPTER TWO
The implications for you as a business
Seven case studies, ranging across investment fund management, electronics, automotive, plastics, consumer products
CHAPTER THREE
Knowing what you make or use
Logical sequence of questions to ask, and two risk prioritisation tools
CHAPTER FOUR
Communicating within your own company
Compliance approach vs business approach and four industry case studies
CHAPTER FIVE
Communication with other companies
Personnel to get involved, checklist to ask suppliers and case studies from chemicals, consumer products and coatings sectors
CHAPTER SIX
From substances to data
How to prioritise efforts, preparations, managing costs and data requirements
CHAPTER SEVEN
Substances of very high concern
Criteria to define very high concern, and the consequences
CHAPTER EIGHT
Conclusions: The long road to sound chemicals management
What does it look like when you get there Case studies from DuPont and Dow
APPENDIX ONE by Steffen Erler, Joanne Lloyd and Bob Warner (ReachReady/Chemical Industries Association)
RIPs, reviews and more regulations, including GHS
REACH guidance, what is expected from the RIPs, what GHS means for companies
APPENDIX TWO by Derek J. Knight (Regulatory Affairs Director, SafePharm Laboratories)
The data requirements of REACH
Chemical safety reports, data gap analysis, minimising requirements, SAR/QSAR, read-across, data waivers, useful literature sources
APPENDIX THREE by Derek J. Knight (Regulatory Affairs Director, SafePharm Laboratories)
How to find testing specialists
Registration consultants, only representative registrants, training for REACH
APPENDIX FOUR by Emily McIvor (HSI)
Reducing animal testing
Generating data on intrinsic properties, data sharing, recommendations to reduce animal testing
APPENDIX FIVE by Mamta Patel
A brief history of the events leading up to REACH
APPENDIX SIX by Elizabeth Salter Green (CHEMTrust)
