PROFESSIONAL USER

Preventing Access to Effluent Storage and Similar Areas on Earms Guidance on Storing Pesticides for Earmers and other Professional Users Safe Use of Rodenticides on Earms and Holdings Earmer s Lung... 

Storage of approved pesticides guidance for farmers and other professional users... 

From 1 January 2000, Dutch law prohibits the use by professional carpet fitters of solvent-based adhesives. The Organic Psycho Syndrome law concerns the adhering of coverings to floors, stairs, walls and ceilings in houses and any other buildings. Key issue in the OPS law is that professional users are no longer allowed to use products containing more than 0.5% solvents. The law also affects painters and parquet installers. 

Certain regulations contained in the air legislation and also in the annexes to the Waste Water Ordinance include the substitution of hazardous substances as the best available technology and thus attempt to put into operation the precautionary principle (cf UBA texts 88/99, Guidance Manual for Formulators and Other Professional Users of Chemicals). 

Guidance for the use of environmentally sound substances, for producers and professional users of chemical products relevant to the aquatic enviromnent (2003), cf http //www.umweltbundesamt.de/umweltvertraegliche-stoffe-e/guidehome.htm... 

A new device that is specifically made in accordance with a duly qualified medical practitioner s written prescription and which gives, under the practitioner s responsibility, specific design characteristics, and is intended for the sole use of a particular patient is permitted to be marketed without CE marking imder provisions referring to custom-made devices. The prescription may be made by any person authorised by virtue of their professional qualifications to do so. Mass produced devices that need to be adapted to meet the specific requirements of the medical practitioner or any other professional user are not considered to be custom-made devices. 

In the European Union, a very comprehensive initiative with the aim to improve the protection of human health and the environment from the hazards of chemicals, and to enhance the competitiveness of the EU s chemical industry, is under way. It is referred to as REACIT, which stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals. REACFf places greater responsibility on industry to manage the risk of chemicals and provide appropriate safety information to professional users and, as far as the most hazardous substances, to consumers. New substances need to be registered before they are placed on the market. REACH came in force on June 1, 2007, with a phased implementation over the next decade. There is no doubt that it will affect the UV/EB industry. 

Professional users refers to workers in micro-sized enterprises in a wide multitude of trades such as painters, cobblers, and cleaners. 

Highly volatile or easily absorbed via the skin Exposure > DNEL or zero-threshold DCM [472] follows current RRS, TGD Supply of correct PPE when selling product at volumes above 500 ml unless selling to a certified or licensed professional user... 

Any exposure octa-BDE [306] follows current EU risk reduction TGD guidelines [485] Supply of correct PPE or provide training when selling product unless selling to a certified or licensed professional user The provision does not include sale of the product in pellet form... 

V Professional user risks resulting from direct exposure during product use and including occupational exposures not occurring in industrial facilities (e.g., outdoor or underground applications). 

Sufficient reduction of risks to professional users from handling MTBE would be considered achievable through the development and review of recommendation equivalents. Targets would however be necessary to reduce overall environmental burdens particularly from accidental spills. 

Safety Data Sheets must be supplied to companies upon first business transaction for dangerous substances and preparations. The Safety Data Sheet summarises hazard data and the appropriate safety measure for use and disposal of the given chemical. Thereafter, suppliers and users share responsibility for updating a Safety Data Sheet. A Safety Data Sheet must usually be made available upon demand for professional users but not members of the general public. 

Customers General manufacturing, construction, packaging Industrial use Pharmaceutical, agriculture Textiles, leathers, paper, paints, construction, agrochemicals, pharma, water, coatings, plastics Automobile, aeronautic, professional users, consumers... 

Information should not only be directed to professional users but also consumers need information about different chemicals and how these can be substituted. 

Pesticides are used in residential settings by professional and non-professional users, who differ in a number of aspects. First, professionals are assumed to be skilled and healthy adults, while non-professionals may include the young and the old, the careless and the careful. For professionals, it is appropriate to assume that personal protective equipment is used however, such an assumption cannot be made for non-professionals, even when such precautions are recommended. Secondly, use frequencies and use duration will generally be larger for professionals when compared to non-professionals. Thirdly, as a consequence of their intensity of contact, professionals are expected to use higher amounts of pesticides than non-professionals. 

Construction and maintenance materials used by home residents are identical to those used commercially by safety-trained professionals. Whereas professional users are required to undergo training for the safe use of hazardous chemical products, home users are under no such constraint. As a result, people are exposed to numerous toxic exposures in the home. A representative list of products containing toxic chemicals that are regularly used in home maintenance projects is shown in Table 11.7. 

Pharsight Corporation. WinNonlin Professional User s Guide, Version 2. Pharsight Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, 1997. 

The term label can mean the label on the immediate container, the carton label, the outer label or the label on the case or pallet. Each label has a different function. A leaflet, enclosed within the carton, can be a patient leaflet or a professional user leaflet, or in some cases a summary of product characteristics (SPC). 

The above information relates to a package insert designed for the patient, but in some cases further information is required for use by the doctor, dentist or nurse in supplying or administering the product. To cover this need a professional user leaflet may be included provided it is within the scope of the SmPC, but even if the product is administered by a professional a patient insert must also be provided. 

Dangerous substances have to be labeled in accordance with Article 23 of Dangerous Substance Directive 67/548/EEC [4-1] and dangerous preparations in accordance with Article 10 of Dangerous Preparation Directive 1999/45/EC [4-3]. The intention of labehng is to inform the professional user (as well as everybody else) of the most important hazards of substances and preparations and the main precautionary measures. Therefore the label should express aU potential hazards which could be relevant to normal handling and use of the substances or preparations. 

Restricted to professional users. Attention - avoid exposure - obtain special instructions before use. ... 

A safety data sheet has also to be submitted at the request of a professional user following Directive 91/155/EEC [4-11] additionally for... 

The safety data sheet should enable the professional user in particular to take the necessary measures as regards the protection of the environment and health and safety at the workplace. The safety data sheet must contain the information necessary for the protection of personnel and the environment The language of the safety data sheets can be prescribed by the competent authorities of the member states every member state requires at least one national language. Multiple language countries like Belgium require more than one language. 

Aminobiphenyl (CAS No. 92-67-1) and its salts are not allowed to be sold to the general pubhc. For the professional user, the words Restricted to professional users must be added to the labels in a legible and indehble maimer. 

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