The Labour Inspectorate of Cyprus provides essential information about chemical agents and answers to questions regarding: What are chemical agents? Where are the chemical agents? Risks from chemical agents and ways of dealing with them. Legislation concerning chemical agents. Informative leaflets are included with further information on chemical agents (e.g. risk assessment, protection measures, SDS, safety and health signs etc.). Fire safety is also mentioned in relation to dangerous substances as well as health and safety in laboratories.

The Labour Inspectorate of Cyprus provides essential information about carcinogenic and mutagenic agents and answers to questions regarding: What are carcinogenic agents and how do they act? Which agents are carcinogens? Information about chemical substances that are related to different work tasks is included. More specifically, there is reference to several metals, natural silicate minerals, radioactive gases and further chemical substances, to which exposure may cause cancer to humans.

The Labour Inspectorate of Cyprus provides essential information about asbestos and answers to any possible questions regarding: What is asbestos, Use of asbestos, Asbestos exposure, Diseases caused by  asbestos exposure, Procedures and protection measures, License, Safety and Health Plan-Work Plan, Health and Safety Signs. It also provides the relevant legislation for these topics.

The leaflet raises awareness on the health and safety risks from exposure to hazardous chemicals and highlights the importance of information on the labels of chemical products: the hazard pictograms, signal words, and the hazard and precautionary statements according to the Regulation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures (CLP). It also mentions the main warning signs that exist in the workplaces and are related to the chemical risk.

The leaflet informs about hazards and risks from lead exposure at work. It provides information on the necessary medical tests of employees and the essential prevention measures in the workplace in order to reduce the exposure. The leaflet is illustrated so as to draw the attention and raise the workers’ awareness. 

The document lists threshold limit values derived from the Greek legislation and are matched with values of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). 

This manual is an inventory of chemical substances existing either as raw materials, intermediate products or final products in chemicals producing companies. It identifies the hazards (eco-)toxicity)), exposures and potential risks from the use of these substances and the prevention measures. It contains guidance about the storage, distribution, handling, disposal, ignition and firefighting of these materials. Finally, it presents a significant part of legislation related to the health and safety protection of workers against the exposure to dangerous substances.

The guide on industrial solvents informs about occupational health and safety risks from use and the exposure to industrial solvents and describes possible prevention measures. It provides information on safety data sheets, good practices for reducing the worker’s exposure, proper use of personal protective equipment, measures for reducing the risk of ignition and explosion, measures for reducing the vapour concentration in the workplace etc.   

The websites provides links to several topics on chemicals, including: exposure pathways to chemicals, chemical risk assessment, biological monitoring, the REACH regulation, safety data sheets or CMRs.