REACH Guide

Chemicals Management After REACH: A Business Guide

"Required reading for business as well as regulatory people. Presents some interesting thoughts which, if successfully adopted, should lead to business opportunities" – Dave Buckland, Corporate Regulatory Affairs Manager, Akzo Nobel NV

2008 edition

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We are getting excellent feedback on this Chemical Watch report, a revised 2008 edition of which is now available. It has an update on the REACH Implementation Projects and improved hyperlinks for further information in a complimentary electronic version available to customers as soon as they place their order.

Aimed at business managers who are updating their chemicals management strategies and other personnel who need to communicate with suppliers and customers, our business guide turns the process of REACH compliance into issues of commercial necessity and common sense.

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Packed with case studies, the guide addresses a wide range of sectors, including chemicals production and downstream manufacturing. It will be of particular value to managers devising substance testing strategies, and those seeking to communicate with others in their companies or supply chains.

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REACH business guide

Find out 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 detailed technical appendices, describing:

• 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:

• Boots
• Ciba
• Skanska
• S. Black
• Dow
• DuPont
• Shell Chemicals
• BASF

And discover how industry bodies in the automotive, electronics, personal care, construction and detergents sectors are approaching the question of chemical risks.

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Contents overview

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

"Chemical Watch’s Guide to Chemicals Management after REACH does a superb job in covering not only the technical aspects of the Regulation, but in providing sound practical advice on implementation" – Chris Eacott, Stewardship Solutions Ltd

"This business guide gives a very good sense of the importance and complexities of REACH. In particular the case studies of steps being taken in different parts of the supply chain should point the way for others" – Nigel Haigh, former director, Institute for European Environmental Policy

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