This website section provides access to ECHA’s databases. These include the database on registered substances, the classification and labelling inventory, information bases on biocides and regulated under other legislation, including the CAD and CMD. Furthermore, information on planned regulatory...
Practical tools and guidance on dangerous substances
Von Mitgliedstaaten, Organen und Einrichtungen der EU, Wirtschaftsverbänden, Sozialpartnern und anderen Akteuren ist eine ganze Reihe von Instrumenten und Leitliniendokumenten erarbeitet worden, die den Unternehmen bei einer umfassenden und wirksamen Gefährdungsabschätzung helfen sollen. Diese Instrumente sehen sehr vielfältige Ansätze für ein wirksames Management gefährlicher Stoffe vor. Häufig befassen sie sich mit bestimmten Arbeitsvorgängen, wie beispielsweise dem Abfüllen oder Pumpen von Flüssigkeiten oder mit Schweißvorgängen. Andere Quellen bieten einen umfassenden Überblick über eine bestimmte Stoffgruppe (wie sensibilisierende Stoffe) oder gehen auf typische Risiken in bestimmten Branchen ein.
Die meisten dieser Instrumente sind zudem nicht nur einer guten Gefährdungsabschätzung zuträglich, sondern enthalten auch gute praktische Lösungen, erklären, wie sich Risiken in gängigen Arbeitssituationen verringern lassen, in denen es zu einer Exposition gegenüber gefährlichen Stoffen kommt. Es gibt aber auch Instrumente für spezifische Akteure, unter anderem für Arbeitsaufsichtsbeamte, kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen und Arbeitnehmervertreter. Es lohnt sich also, das auf der Website aufgeführte Hilfsangebot zu durchforsten.
Practical tools and guidance on dangerous substances
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This film introduces the changes that have been made to harmonise the signs (pictograms) used in the transport of dangerous goods and the signs used for the product classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) of chemicals. The existing seven pictograms are to be replaced with nine. Napo is...
Provider: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Country: EU
Description
The film shows a worker not listen to the fire safety instructions and not knowing how to behave as a fire starts at his workplace. The fim shows that it is important that workers are aware of all possible escape routes and emergency procedures.
The Napo series of films are produced using...
Provider: https://osha.europa.eu
Country: EU
Description
This film aims to raise awareness of the dangers of exposing the skin to harmful (and sometimes not so harmful) substances, the situations in which such exposures occur and what can be done to prevent risks, protect the skin and prevent damage. Napo discovers many different situations in which...
Provider: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Country: EU
Description
This Napo film is about issues related to tobacco smoke in workplaces. Exposure to tobacco smoke is bad for both smokers’ and non-smokers’ health. It can cause serious problems such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. It can cause death due to cancer, coronary heart disease or stroke. Yet...
Provider: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Country: EU
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The film aims to raise awareness of risks from working with chemicals in confined spaces. Napo is shown lacquering a tank from the inside with a coating that is classified as toxic and exposive, without any inhalation protection. As he starts feeling dizzy and cannot read the coating label, he...
Provider: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Country: EU
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The website provides the presentations of a workshop held in 2012 on the interactions and potential synergies between occupational safety and health (OSH) regulatory practices and REACH. The presentations include aspects on how REACH supporets OSH legislation, using registration information...
Provider: European Chemicals Agency
Country: EU
Description
The poster provides warning messages on the dangers posed by asbestos still present in European buildings. It calls the EU to act.
Provider: European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW)
Country: EU
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This factsheet introduces the process of eliminating or substituting dangerous substances, which are at the top of the European control hierarchy. It gives hints on how to identify chemicals to eliminate or substitute and briefly outlines the process of identifying alternatives. Links are provided...
Provider: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Country: EU