KemI Rapport 2/08 - Kemikalieinspektionen

substances. This is also mirrored in differences in knowledge, organisation andpersonal engagement.• Experience gained at one place (company or authority) is too seldom taken advantageof and transferred in a systematic way.• When approaching the environmental quality target A Non-Toxic Environment, a needbecomes visible on the one hand to concretize its content and on the other to pushseveral actors to leave a passive attitude and take on a more proactive stance.• It takes development projects, systematic build-up of knowledge, continuity, longtermthinking and co-ordination to go from being passive to proactive in work onsubstitution.• The need for support varies a great deal between different companies. There is a largespan between initiating basic measures, and for instance to further develop thecompany´s own database on chemicals.• Incentives for companies to practice active work on substitution are generally considered weak and the energy to trigger the process as high. • Enforcement authorities have a key role to initiate substitution work in a company.Sector organisations are other important actors.The report presents proposals for activities in support of the work to substitute hazardouschemical products in companies and to improve the conditions for environmental inspectorsand officers at municipalities and county councils to push on this work (Chapter 5).Annex 1 contains summaries of how some of the interviewed companies work to reduce riskswith chemical substances, for instance by substitution.8