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Where to get more information? Sources of information to identify substances (last accessed 14 April 2008): • International Chemical Safety Cards http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/ or http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/unrec/12_e.html: for essential information about chemicals’ physical properties, as well as health and safety information on the use of chemicals at the "shop floor" level by workers and employers in factories, agriculture, construction and other work places • TOXNET http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov • Hazardous Substance Database (HSDB) http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB • Pesticide Action Network Database http://www.pesticideinfo.org • ChemIDplus http://chem2.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/chemidlite.jsp • European Chemicals Bureau http://ecb.jrc.it/existing-chemicals/ • RISCTOX database: Contains information in Spanish on the health and environmental risks of over 30 000 chemicals - http://www.istas.net/ecoinformas 50
Module 1 references Official websites: • International Labour Organization. “Safe work” http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/intro/ Documents: • ILO. International Labour Office. “Programme on Safety and Health and Work and Environment. International Chemical Control Toolkit” http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/ctrl_banding/toolkit/main_guide.pdf • ILO. “International Occupational Safety and Health Centre of Information: Basics of chemical safety” http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/safetytm/toc.htm • ILO. International Occupational Safety and Health Centre of Information. “Chemical safety training modules” http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/safetytm/index.htm • ILO. “Chemicals in the workplace. Your health and safety at work.” http://www.itcilo.it/actrav/actrav-english/telearn/osh/kemi/chemicaa.htm • IPCS (International programme on chemical safety) (2004). “Guidelines on the prevention of toxic exposure, Education and public awareness activities” • IPCS (International programme on chemical safety). “Users’ manual for the IPCS health and safety guides http://www.inchem.org/documents/hsg/hsg/hsgguide.htm • IPCS (International Programme on Chemical Safety). “Safety and Health in the Use of Agrochemicals” http://www.itcilo.it/actrav/actrav-english/telearn/osh/kemi/pest/pesti2.htm • IPCS (International programme on chemical safety) (2000). “Hazardous Chemicals in Human and Environmental Health” • IPCS (International programme on chemical safety). “General Scientific Principles of Chemical Safety”, Training Module, no.4 • “Occupational Cancer/Zero cancer: A Union Guide to prevention” http://www.hazards.org/cancer/ • WHO-UNEP (2006). “Sound Management of Pesticides and diagnosis treatment of pesticide poisoning” 51
Page 1 and 2: Sound and Sustainable Management of
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Page 14 and 15: world. According to the Internation
Page 16 and 17: (f) capacity for rehabilitation of
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Page 23 and 24: PHYSICAL HAZARDS The physico-chemic
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Page 29 and 30: These effects may appear at extreme
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Page 33 and 34: accumulative substances (TPB). For
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Annex 2: CARDS The following cards
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Card 4 - Risk evaluation On a scale
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7. Are workers told of the hygienic
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Unit 1: INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE OF
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national policy of chemical safety
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What still needs to be done… REAC
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