The event brought together leading European experts and decision makers to discuss the results of the 2-year Healthy Workplaces for All Ages campaign. In plenary and smaller parallel sessions, participants exchanged good practices and explored future...
The website provides access to three leaflets describing model solutions related to car lacquering: 2 about the lacquering itself and one about mixing of paints and cleaning of tools. The leaflets inform about how to work with hazardous substances in paints, including solvents and isocyanates and how to prevent exposures. They include checklists for employers and workers. The leaflet is part of a series of sectoral publications to help companies, in particular small and medium-sized companies, to manage the risks posed by dangerous substances at workplaces.
This leaflet is about safety data sheets and the information one can get from them. It describes in detail the different sections of a data sheet. The leaflet is part of a series of publications to help companies to manage the risk of dangerous substances at workplaces.
The document by Health Service Rioja (Rioja Salud) provides guidance on the safe handling of cytostatics to:
The guidance document provides easy-to-understand information on what hazardous chemical agents are, how they can be recognised and how they can enter the body and potentially cause health damage. The guide also includes a section where safe handling of chemicals is more deeply analysed and best practice examples are given for different workplaces, such as in hairdressing or cleaning.
The webiste provides information on the Spanish trade union 's CCOO (Union Confederation of Workers' Commissions) plans to combat cancer at work.
This guidance document produced by the German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) provides instructions for safe working in chemistry labs. The guidance includes instructions on the safe handling of chemicals, tools and equipment in chemistry labs; waste management and cleaning; the risks and hazards of fire and explosion; working with electrical equipment; working with radiation; health hazards; respiratory protection; and first aid. In the annexes, there are, amongst others, a list of carcinogenic substances and a list of H-phrases.