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Dear Colleagues,
"Greener Management International" Issue 41 is a special theme issue:
CHEMICAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Edited by Steffen Erler, University of Surrey, Joanne Lloyd, Chemical Industries Association, UK
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The EU is currently creating a regulatory system for chemicals unlike any other system in the world. Although the new EU chemicals regulation has received considerable attention in the press, many companies around the world are still unaware how it will affect them. This special issue of ŒGreener Management International Œ responds to the new EU chemicals regulation by examining the tools and methodologies necessary for effective and efficient chemical risk management. It includes examples of success stories in chemical management as well as looking at smarter ways of assessing chemicals within the supply chain and, more broadly, in terms of their whole life-cycle.
Although the level of information needed for chemical risk management varies considerably, solutions often lie at one of two extremes: the factory floor or the international forum. It follows that the success of any action depends on understanding top-down and bottom-up approaches, and how one can trigger the other. In this respect it is important to consider when regulatory action is necessary and how voluntary initiatives by companies can be further developed. Under the new EU chemicals regulation, it was originally estimated that some 30,000 chemical substances will need to be progressed through a EU system for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH), but unless smarter assessment tools and methodologies are adopted this figure looks set to double if not triple. Similarly, the new regulation requires careful refinement to ensure that its implementation does not overstretch the resources of stakeholders worldwide to successfully manage chemical risks.
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Table of Contents
* Introduction
Steffen Erler, University of Surrey, UK and Joanne Lloyd, Chemical Industries Association, UK
* Assessment Tools under the New European Union Chemicals Policy
Frans M. Christensen and Jack H.M. de Bruijn, European Commission, Italy, Bjørn G. Hansen, European Commission, Belgium, Sharon J. Munn, Birgit Sokull-Klüttgen and Finn Pedersen, European Commission, Italy
* Project HERA (Human and Environmental Risk Assessment): An Industry Initiative Anticipating the New EU Chemicals Policy
John Solbé, Chair, HERA Operational Team; Consultant; UK
*The Precautionary Principle and Global Chemical Risk Management: Some Insights from the Case of Persistent Organic Pollutants
Steve Maguire and Jaye Ellis, McGill University, Canada
* Hazard and Exposure Considerations related to Chemical Risk Assessment
Peter Frier, LGC, UK
* Never Change a Running Process? Substitution of Hazardous Chemicals in Products and Processes: Definition, Key Drivers and Barriers
Joachim Lohse, Ökopol GmbH Hamburg, Germany, Lothar Lißner, Kooperationsstelle Hamburg, Germany, Sven Lundie, Andreas Ahrens and Martin Wirts, Ökopol GmbH Hamburg, Germany
* Risk Assessment and Life-cycle Assessment: Fundamentally Different yet Reconcilable
Anneke Wegener Sleeswijk and Reinout Heijungs, Leiden University, The Netherlands and Steffen T. Erler, University of Surrey, UK
* Chemical Management Services: Greening the Supply Chain
Jennie Oldham, Green Alliance, UK and Tom Votta, Chemical Strategies Partnership, USA
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A limited number of individual copies of this special issue are available for purchase at the price of £25.00/$45.00. Postage worldwide is gratis.
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