Canada Safety Council

The Canada Safety Council is a national, nongovernment, charitable organization dedicated to safety. Our mission is to lead in the national effort to reduce preventable deaths, injuries and economic loss in public and private places throughout Canada. We serve as a credible, reliable resource for safety information, education and awareness in all aspects of Canadian life—in traffic, at home, at work and at leisure. 

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Abbott Laboratories, which has conducted additional toxicity and carcinogenicity studies with cyclamate, a 10 1 mixture of cyclamate—saccharin, and cyclohexylamine, claimed to be unable to confirm the 1969 findings. Abbott then filed a food additive petition for cyclamate in 1973, which was denied by the FDA in 1980. In 1982, the Calorie Control Council and Abbott Laboratories filed a second food additive petition containing the results of additional safety studies (73). That petition was stiU pending as of 1996. Cyclamate is, however, allowed for use in any or all three categories, ie, food, beverage, and tabletop, in about 50 countries. Sweet n Low, known in the United States as a saccharin-based table-top sweetener, contains exclusively cyclamate in Canada. 

The eChemPortal is an effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in collaboration with the European Commission, the United States, Canada, lapan, the International Council of Chemical Associations, the Business and Industry Advisory Committee, the World Health Organization s International Program on Chemical Safety, the United Nations Environment Programme on Chemicals and environmental non-governmental organizations. 

NSF International is a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization that is known world wide for standards development and product certification. NSF is accredited by ANSI, US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Standard Council of Canada (SCC). Water program standards important to drinking water quality in the United States include the following ... 

An early mover in voluntary initiatives was that of Responsible Care begun in Canada in 1987 to develop the principles on which the chemical industry could base its product development from laboratory to disposal, to improve its health, safety and environmental performance (see Table 1). That was taken up by the International Council for Chemical Associations in 1991 and now covers 87 per cent of global chemical production in 42 countries. Mainly adopted by the larger multi-nationals, the Responsible Care concept needs to be extended to more small and medium sized enterprises [3],... 

MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). 2011. Summary of the Memorandum of Understanding on vehicle weights and dimensions Heavy truck weight and dimension limits for interprovincial operations in Canada Summary information. Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety. Ottawa Council of Ministers. 

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom Council for Nuclear Safety, South Africa Pederal Ministry for Science, Transport and Art, Austria United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Nordion International, Canada Electricite de Prance, Prance... 

The perception that the industry has not been working hard to improve, is not borne out by the facts. An initiative named Responsible Care which is the chemical industry s commitment to continuous improvement in all aspects of health, safety and environmental protection was launched in Canada in 1984. It was adopted by the USA in 1988 and has been spreading around the world since then. Apart from North America and Europe which are discussed below, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, India, Zimbabwe and other countries have adopted it [5]. The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has drawn up guidelines which are given in Figure 1.1 [5]. In the UK, where the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) makes participation in the Responsible Care initiative a condition of membership, discharges of red list substances (compounds of mercury and cadmium, DDT, malathion, triphenyl and tributyl tin, etc.) fell by 40% between 1990 and 1992 whilst special wastes (compounds of arsenic, antimony, barium, mercury, nickel, vanadium, etc.) disposed of off site fell by 9% [6]. The Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA) in the USA also makes participation a condition of membership and one of its Pollution Prevention Code requirements is very relevant to this book ... 

For safety risks, the criteria for individual safety risk varies among jurisdictions, ranging from 10 to 10 for the lower level and from 10" to 10" for the upper level (again for involuntary exposure), expressed in terms of chance of fatality of an exposed individual over a year. The Canadian guidelines developed by the Major Industrial Accidents Council of Canada are shown in Fig. 10.3 as an example of how these can be used for land use planning (MIACC, 1994). 

J. Thompson, M. Sheffer, R. Pierce, Y. Chau, J. Cooney, W. Cullen and R. Mc-quire, Organotin Compounds in the Aquatic Environment ... , NRCC 22494, National Research Council, Canada, Assoc. Comm. Environ. Safety, 1985. 

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