Guidance for the safe management of hazardous medicinal products at work
EU & international information

The document includes guidance for handling hazardous medicinal products for workers in different professions and in different workplace situations. It sets out legal requirements, hazards from medidcinal products, handling advice and best practices. 

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Informace o hygieně práce - Krajská hygienická stanice Libereckého kraje
MS information

The website provides an overview of the tasks of the Hygiene station and links to several documents relevant for chemical risk assessment and management at the workplace. Amongst others, references at the bottom of the page link to legal documents, categorisation systems for work activities, guidance on reporting on asbestos, risk factors to welders, working with heat and cold, as well as risk assessment for working with CMR substances. 

M.plus 040.E4 Evaluierung von chemischen Arbeitsstoffen
MS information

This leaflet can be seen as supporting the evaluation of (dangerous) chemical agents. It describes the rough steps of an agent evaluation from the collection of information on the chemical agent and workplace through the risk assessment to the determination of measures and documentation. It also includes examples of tools for inhaled risk assessment. In addition, the annex presents an example risk assessment of ‘toluene precipitation’ using various tools (AUVA Tool Working Substances Directory, EMC, Substance Manager).

ECETOC TRA
EU & international information

The ECETOC TRA is a tool to implement the chemical safety assessment under REACH. It is an extensive excel-spreadsheet based assessment tool which derives exposure levels based on the input of substance information and conditions of use. In addition to the integrated tool, a separate spreadsheet for occupational exposure assessment is provided. On the starting page, a guidance manual as well as several related information sources are provided. The tool is free of charge but requires the user to identify himself to get a dedicated download link. 

ConsExpo nano
MS information

ConsExpo nano is a tool to investigate potential consumer exposure to nanomaterials in consumer spray products. The model is based on a calculation algorythm and a number of data sets on average consumer data. The tool allows to identify the exposure level based on a number of input data and using the underlying average assumption. The model can be used also to assess exposure in the workplace for spray products, where workers and consumers use the product in a similar way.