How you and your organisation can:

• Identify your chemical risks - we describe resources to help you compile inventories and understand what you are dealing with
• Communicate effectively within your organisation to maximise opportunities linked to the changing marketplace stemming from REACH
• Communicate with suppliers and customers, with tips on how to get the information and outcomes you require
• Collect the risk-assessment data needed to support substances into the future

Benefit from technical appendices:

• Technical guidance available and being developed under the REACH implementation projects (RIPs)
• The forthcoming Globally Harmonised System (GHS) of chemicals classification and labelling
• How to put together an intelligent testing strategy that minimises data requirements
• How to select REACH consultants and testing laboratories

See how leading firms are tackling these and other challenges and discover how industry bodies in the automotive, electronics, personal care, construction and detergents sectors are approaching the question of chemical risks.

CHAPTER ONE

• Introduction: A pressing chemicals agenda
• REACH fact file

CHAPTER TWO

• The implications for you as a business
• Seven case studies ranging across investor perspective, electronics, automotive, plastics, consumer products

CHAPTER THREE

• Knowing what you make or use
• Logical sequence of questions to ask, and two risk prioritisation tools

CHAPTER FOUR

• Communicating within your own company
• Compliance approach vs business approach and four industry case studies

CHAPTER FIVE

• Communication with other companies
• Personnel to get involved, checklist to ask suppliers and case studies from chemicals, consumer products and coatings sectors

CHAPTER SIX

• From substances to data
• How to prioritise efforts, preparations, managing costs and data requirements

CHAPTER SEVEN

• Substances of very high concern
• Criteria to define very high concern, and the consequences

CHAPTER EIGHT

• Conclusions: The long road to sound chemicals management
• What does it look like when you get there? Case studies from DuPont and Dow

APPENDIX ONE

• by Steffen Erler, Joanne Lloyd and Bob Warner (ReachReady/ Chemical Industries Association)
• RIPs, reviews and more regulations, including GHS
• REACH guidance, what is expected from the RIPs, what GHS means for companies

APPENDIX TWO

• by Dr Derek J. Knight (Regulatory Affairs Director, SafePharm Laboratories)
• The data requirements of REACH
• Chemical safety reports, data gap analysis, minimising data requirements, SAR/QSAR, read-across, data waivers, useful literature sources

APPENDIX THREE

• by Dr Derek J. Knight (Regulatory Affairs Director, SafePharm Laboratories)
• How to find testing specialists
• Registration consultants, only representative registrants, training for REACH

APPENDIX FOUR

• by Emily McIvor (HSI)
• Reducing animal testing
• Generation of data on intrinsic properties, data sharing, recommendations for reducing animal testing

APPENDIX FIVE

• by Mamta Patel
• A brief history of the events leading up to REACH

APPENDIX SIX

• by Elizabeth Salter Green (CHEM Trust)
• From toxics to trust: WWF-UK

APPENDIX SEVEN

• Useful sources of information

ADDENDUM

• Update on RIPs