January 13, 2011
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Health & Safety Newsletter January 13, 2011 |
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More than three million classification and labelling notifications improve information on hazardous chemicals
More than three million notifications on the classification of chemical substances in line with new EU rules have been received by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). All companies manufacturing or importing hazardous substances were required to classify them by 1 December 2010 and notify ECHA by 3 January 2011. Classification is essential to determine whether a chemical is dangerous for health and the environment, and will determine the information on the labels of chemicals that workers and consumers use. The new rules are laid down in the EU Regulation on Classification, Labelling and Packaging ... |
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BP Gulf oil spill final report backs British safety model
The final report from the presidential commission investigating the causes of BP`s Gulf of Mexico disaster is expected to recommend today that the US oil industry adopt the North Sea approach to safety. The US government is expected to radically overhaul its discredited regulatory regime covering offshore operations, which had merely required companies to fill out uniform box-ticking safety audits. It is also expected that the commission will recommend the setting up of an independent safety institute responsible for auditing companies` plans. It comes as engineers battled extreme ... |
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