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The guidance explains the requirements for preventing exposure from work with manufactured nanoparticles and nanomaterials that may pose a risk to the safety and health of the employees.
The webite gives access to a tool supporting employers in assessing risks at workplaces. The tool supports assessment of risks when using cleaning agents and when welding or doing thermal cutting of metals.
The brochure explains how companies should manage chemicals, including how to assess workplace risks and implement measures to protect workers.
The brochure provided information on what pregnat workers should do and avoide when painting.
The short brochure explains painting activities should be planned, organised and implemented in a safe way, including regarding chemicals. It contains very practical information that can be directly implemented at the workplace.
On this webpage it is explained that the Swiss labour inspectorates aim to enforce legislation on chemicals at work to ensure workers are sufficiently well protected. Several documents are provided to support enterprises to fulfill their legal requirements including:
• Brief information sheet for employers on health protection when handling chemicals in the workplace.
• Brochure: Health protection when handling chemicals in the workplace and (comprehensive brochure and checklists on various topics).
The website explains the different types of occupational exposure limit values, how the Austrian values relate to the German and European ones and how the actual workplace air concentrations can be measured.
The WIDES database supports the legally required considertion of effectiveness, workers protection and environmental protection in the purchasing and safe use of disinfectants in hospital and care activities. It enables comparing products in relevant uses "in one click".
The guidance aims to support enterprises using diisocyanates in implementing the new requirements according to REACH Annex XVII, entry 74. It explains that companies and workers using these substances must have specific training, what these trainings must include, how they ares structured and how they should be documented.
