Who should attend?

This event is designed for those responsible for health, safety and environmental protection within companies using hazardous substances from EU suppliers – downstream users in REACH-speak! It will be relevant to those interpreting supplier Exposure Scenarios for on-site use, and for anyonein the EU who formulates and supplies mixtures.

Book before 30Septemberfor an “early bird” discount.

Why attend?

For the hazardous substances registered in your supply chain at 10 tonnes or more per year you should already be receiving an extended version of the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) which includes relevant Exposure Scenarios. Do you know where to look for the key information for your site’s uses? Can you interpret your supplier’s information and implement suitable risk management measures for your workers and the environment?

If you formulate mixtures, you also need to identify and collate relevant information for onward supply. Under the CSR/ES Roadmap, Sector-specific Worker Exposure Descriptions (SWEDs) and Safe Use of Mixtures Information (SUMIs) have been developed in an effort to improve communication and use of information relating to formulated products. Knowing how to use these tools effectively will aid your supply chain communication.

This one-day workshop will help you:

Appreciate what exposure scenarios contain and why

Learn how to interpret a supplier’s exposure scenario and pass on information to your customers

Understand the principles behind the “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches for mixtures

Explore ways to demonstrate safe use where your conditions of use differ from the supplier’s exposure scenario

Recognise and implement appropriate risk management measures to protect your workers and the environment.

Programme

9:00 / Coffee & Registration
9:30 / Welcome and introduction
Format and content of the exposure scenario
Templates, style, specific and generic ES, standard phrases, use descriptors, level of detail; what’s happening with mixtures – SWEDs, SUMIs and the “top-down”/”bottom-up” approaches
Preparing for the 2018 deadline
Communicating uses to registrants, “will my supplier register?”, auditing suppliers, handling use information from downstream customers, responding to questionnaires
Receiving the extended SDS
Checking if your use is included, identifying the relevant ES, interpreting the content of the ES, verifying whether your operational conditions are covered, implementing conditions in the ES
Different use patterns to the ES
How to deal with DNELs and PNECs, risk characterisation, demonstrating safe use where operational conditions or risk management measures (RMM) differ from the ES, scaling options
12:30 / Lunch
Use not covered by suppliers ES
Obligations and options for managing compliance, timings, notifying ECHA, Downstream User chemical safety assessment
Impact on workplace health, safety and environmental management
Exposure levels and limits, implementing recommended RMM, interaction with site legislation such as COSHH
Communicating advice: onward supply and mixtures
Incorporating supplier ES into your SDS, extracting relevant information, tailoring the SDS to your customers’ uses, avoiding information overload;“top down” and “bottom up” approaches, SUMIs, SWEDs and SCEDs
16:30 / Close