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
The scientific basis of Control Banding (PDF, 872 KB)
Maikel van Niftrik, TNO, The Netherlands
Control Banding implementation: communication, training and education (PDF, 961 KB)
Dave Zalk, University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Workshop I Control Banding and REACH
ECETOC-TRA - basics, application, performance - REACH & Control Banding perspectives (PDF, 498 KB)
Alison Margary, Shell International Ltd.
Workshop II Scientific basis of Control Banding and new developments
Stoffenmanager - Calibration and validation (PDF, 283 KB)
Maikel van Niftrik, TNO, The Netherlands
Evaluation of the EMKG (PDF, 410 KB)
Martin Tischer, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Germany
E-TEAM: Evaluation of Tier 1 Exposure Assessment Models under REACH (PDF, 741 KB)
Martin Tischer, BAuA
Validation program for control guidance sheets (PDF, 430 KB)
Jörg Fritzsche, BAuA
Fire & explosion risk - a future EMKG module (PDF, 658 KB)
Iris Schweitzer-Karababa, BAuA
Workshop III Control Banding implementation: communication, training and education
Stoffenmanager - Results operational analysis (PDF, 300 KB)
Henri Heussen, Arbo Unie, The Netherlands
EMKG - BAuA Toolkit for Chemical Control Banding - CB training for OSH professionals (PDF, 1 MB)
Annette Wilmes, BAuA
GIZ Practical Chemicals Management - Toolkit for your company (PDF, 2 MB)
Alberto Camacho, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Germany
CB in social media and PIMEX Videos (PDF, 1 MB)
Henri Heussen, Arbo Unie, The Netherlands
Control banding - Risk management tools: EU-OSHA's activities and perspective (PDF, 3 MB)
Elke Schneider, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, EU-OSHA
Workshop Results
Results of Workshop II: Scientific basis of Control Banding and new developments (PDF, 35 KB)
Maikel van Niftrik, TNO, The Netherlands
Results of Workshop III: CB implementation: communication, training and education (PDF, 533 KB)
Dave Zalk, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Occupational Risk Management Toolbox Global Development Strategy Work Plan 2010 - 2015 (PDF, 197 KB)