Organisations risk assessment

Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) (2003) Descriptions of Selected Key Generic Terms Used in Chemical Hazard/Risk Assessment. OECD, Paris. 

Dr Georg Geisler is a product safety expert and modeller working with RCC Ltd, a Contract Research Organisation based in Basel, Switzerland. In this function, he conducts environmental risk assessments of pesticides, biocides and other chemicals, as well as safety assessments for pesticide residues in the food chain. In 2003, Georg Geisler earned his Ph.D. on environmental life-cycle assessment of pesticides at ETH Zurich. In 1999, he had received a Diploma in environmental chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. 

OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2003) Descriptions of selected key generic terms used in chemical hazard/risk assessment. ENV/JM/MONO(2003) 15. OECD Series on Testing and assessment 44... 

Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, Skin Sensitisation Testing for the Purpose of Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, Mono. No. 29, Paris, 2000. 

Many organizations are now actively involved in ERA, developing methodologies and techniques to improve this environmental management tool. Such organisations include OECD, WHO and ECETOC. One of the major difficulties concerning the use of risk assessment is the availability of data and the data that are available are often loaded with uncertainty. 

NATO/CCMS (North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Committee on Challenges to Modern Society) (1997). Introduction to the Themes of the Workshop. In Integration of Risk Assessment and Health Impact Assessment. Report of the Twelfth Workshop on Methodology, Focalisation, Evaluation and Scope of Environmental Impact Assessment in Reykjavik, Iceland, May 14-18, 1997. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Committee on Challenges to Modem Society (NATO/CCMS) Pilot Study, co-ordinated by E, F. Verheyen, K. Nagels, and M. Coenen, Antwerpen University of Antwerpen, pp. 49-53... 

The SubChem project aimed to improve comprehension of innovation processes in chemicals risk assessment and from these deductions to develop recommendations for action. The recommendations are not solely related to substance and technical iimovations and their framework conditions, but also encompass organisational and institutional itmovations within the scope of extended risk management. From experience gathered in the course of the SubChem project, the most important recommendations for the various actors in the innovation system can be grouped according to their distinctive roles. 

IPCS (1995) International Programme on Chemical Safety/Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Workshop on the Harmonization of Risk Assessment for Reproductive and Development Toxicity, 17-21 October 1994. Carshalton, Surrey, United Kingdom, BIBRA International (IPCS/95.25). 

OECD (1998b) Report of the Second Meeting of the Joint National Coordinators Meeting/Risk Assessment Advisory Board (NCM/RAAB) Working Group on Endocrine Disrupter Testing and Assessment (EDTA Task Force), 12-13 November 1998. Paris, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. 

OECD/IPCS (2001) Project on the harmonization of chemical hazard/risk assessment terminology Critical analysis of survey results. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and World Health Organization, International Programme on Chemical Safety (in press). 

Validation Policy Plans Training Plans GMP Risk Assessments) Validation Rationale Organisation Chart Validation Procedures Quality Procedures... 

NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION, COMMITTEE ON THE CHALLENGES of MODERN SOCIETY. International Toxicity Equivalency Factor (I-TEF) method of risk assessment for complex mixtures of dioxins and related compounds. Pilot study on international information exchange on dioxins and related compounds . CCMS Report Number 176, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C., 1988. 

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD]. 2005b. OECD s database on chemical risk assessment models, http //webdominol.oecd.org/comnet/env/ models.nsf (accessed December 15, 2005). 

Enterprises need a certain internal organisation for chemicals control. A clear allocation of responsibility and efficient routines must be established within the company for control of the purchase of chemicals, data retrieval, hazard and risk assessment, classification, labelling, SDS, work instructions, training, exposure and emission control, etc. Obviously, smooth and efficient co-operation between actors in the supply chain simplifies the work of enterprises (c.f. Fig. 16.4). Enterprises may meet demands on expertise by making use of the skills of their chemical suppliers, by hiring their own experts or by hiring external expertise as consultants. Normally, a combination of these alternatives is used. 

SCHER. 2005. Opinion on Update of the risk assessment of bis(pentabromophenyl) ether (decabromodiphenyl ether) . Adopted 18 March, 2005. DG SANCO. European Commission. 12See e.g. critical comments from the Bromine Science and Environmental Forum, the bromine producers lobby organisation, on www.bsef.com/science/scientific-studies-4/deca-bde-2/. Comments by DG Sanco Unit C7 on a previous draft of this chapter e-mail sent to us on 17 July, 2009. 

Conducting interviews with representatives of all national stakeholder associations and regulatory authorities was unfeasible, so organisations were selected to represent the broadest areas where chemical risk assessments identify that risk occurs, specifically ... 

Sweden has long recognised that its use of epidemiological evidence differs from many other Member States. It even organised an ad hoc EU risk assessment meeting in 1999 to discuss the use of... 

As a first step to the risk reduction process, the results of a risk assessment report (i.e., a registration or evaluation dossier) must be organised according to seven risk descriptors shown in Box 5.4. 

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