Proceedings
The EU-conference "Perspectives of Control Banding" took place in Dortmund from 21 to 22 June 2011 with more than 50 experts.
Since December 2010 the extended provisions on safety data sheets (acc. to regulation no. 453/2010 from 20 may 2010) in the EU chemicals regulation (REACH) allows the use of control banding approaches to recommend risk management measures. This is another remarkable milestone in the young history of Control Banding (CB) in Europe, which has started with HSE's COSHH Essentials in 1999. In the last decade the idea of making risk assessment transparent and understandable for small and medium-sized enterprises without specific chemical knowledge by using bands derived from easy available information has spread world-wide, supported by an International Technical Group (ITG) "Control Banding" of World Health Organization and International Labour Organization.
This was the first European Workshop organised by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) in Germany with support by the ITG following six international (ICBW) and regional control banding workshops in Asia, South and North America since 2001. Taking into account the most popular CB tools in Europe: COSHH Essentials (United Kingdom), Stoffenmanager (Netherlands) and EMKG (Germany) the conference focused on three main topics:
- Control Banding and REACH
- Scientific Basis of Control Banding and new developments
- Control Banding implementation: communication, training and education.
The conference outlined European contributions to the second 5-years-workplan (2011 - 2016) of the ITG. It was a starting point for new co-operations and collaborations on Control Banding in Europe and beyond.
The programme and presentations of the conference can be downloaded below.
Introduction
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Maikel van Niftrik, TNO, The Netherlands
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Dave Zalk, University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Workshop I Control Banding and REACH
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Alison Margary, Shell International Ltd.
Workshop II Scientific basis of Control Banding and new developments
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Maikel van Niftrik, TNO, The Netherlands
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Martin Tischer, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Germany
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Martin Tischer, BAuA
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Jörg Fritzsche, BAuA
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Iris Schweitzer-Karababa, BAuA
Workshop III Control Banding implementation: communication, training and education
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Henri Heussen, Arbo Unie, The Netherlands
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Annette Wilmes, BAuA
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Alberto Camacho, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
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Henri Heussen, Arbo Unie, The Netherlands
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Elke Schneider, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, EU-OSHA
Workshop Results
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Maikel van Niftrik, TNO, The Netherlands
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Dave Zalk, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA