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• Webinar: How EU Chemicals Legislation is Made

  • When
    21 May 2024
  •  
    14:00 - 15:15
  • Location
    Online, webinar
  • Spaces left
    145

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  Webinar: How EU Chemicals Legislation is Made

  Webinar Overview

  In this webinar Robin Foster will describe how EU chemicals legislation is made, drawing on his experience of the negotiation at EU level of the CLP Regulation, the Biocidal Products Regulation, and REACH. He will cover both the process of agreeing these major pillars of EU chemicals legislation, and of agreeing amendments and adaptations to reflect scientific knowledge and technical developments.
  

  Topics and issues include:

  • Post Brexit, why it matters
  • The relevant EU institutions
  • The ‘ordinary legislative procedure’ for Directives and Regulations
  • Amendments and adaptations to technical progress – delegated procedure
  • Double majority voting system
  • Examples of outcomes of the delegated process
  • Recent changes to the delegated process in CLP
  • Implications of process and procedure for chemicals legislation
    
    

      Our Presenter
  

  Robin Foster
  After a first degree in chemistry and a PhD in chemical physics, Robin joined HSE as an inspector of health and safety, and for 12 years advised on, and where appropriate enforced, health and safety legislation – an experience which gave him a practical grounding in what happens in workplaces and what does and does not work in health and safety legislation.

  He then moved to HSE’s policy division, and undertook a number of roles before becoming Head of HSE’s International Chemicals Unit. He represented the UK in negotiations at EU level on, for example, classification and labelling of chemicals, REACH, biocides and chemical agents in the workplace. He also led for the UK in discussions at international level on the Globally Harmonised System for classification and labelling (GHS), and was appointed vice chair of the UN Sub-committee of experts on the GHS.

  Now retired, Robin aims to focus more on family matters, but also undertakes some consultancy.

  Who Should Attend?

  Anyone who wants to know more about how decisions on EU chemicals legislation are made, and what this means in practice.
  

  Registration
  The webinar is free of charge for members of CHCS: please click on the REGISTER button on this web page. 

  You will receive an email of confirmation and then an email from GoToWebinar explaining how to join the event on the day.

  We are also pleased to offer the webinar free-of-charge to members of BADGP and SCHC (click on the links to see how to register).

  If you are interested in attending, but not a member of these organisations, you can JOIN CHCS and then register, free-of-charge. Further webinars on a variety of topics are also being planned.

  Questions?
  If you have any questions, please email: enquiries@chcs.org.uk.

  Your Attention Is Drawn To These Conditions

  CHCS reserves the right to alter or cancel the programme due to circumstances beyond our control.

  
  

  

       
  

  Members Of BADGP & SCHC
  

  CHCS is delighted to have arrangements with:

  • British Association of Dangerous Goods Professionals (BADGP) and
  • US-based Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC)

  Members of both organisations can attend CHCS events at CHCS member-only rates and vice versa. If you are a member of either organisation and wish to attend this course, please visit the Partners page of our website and follow the links to the web page of the organisation to see how to register.  

  

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  CHCS reserves the right to alter or cancel the programme due to circumstances beyond our control. 

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• Webinar: United States Consumer Chemical Product Labelling

  • When
    11 June 2024
  •  
    14:00 - 16:00
  • Location
    Online, webinar
  • Spaces left
    181

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  Webinar: United States Consumer Chemical Product Labelling

  Webinar Overview

  Unlike the European Union and United Kingdom, the United States (US) does not use any version of the GHS for the labelling of consumer chemicals (yet). The labelling of these products is covered by the US Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA), found in Title 16 of the US Code of Federal Regulations.

  The contents declarations are covered by the Federal Trade Commission Regulations and at the state level, NIST Handbook 130.

  This webinar will review the labelling requirements, in addition to the requirements for child resistant packaging.

  The webinar will cover the following:

  • What is a consumer product?
  • Hazard classification
  • Chemicals requiring special labelling
  • Required label elements
  • Placement, type size, conspicuousness
  • Poison prevention packaging
  • Net contents declarations (form, size, placement)
  • Brief review of California Proposition 65 warning requirements
    
    

      Our Presenter
  

  Denese A. Deeds, CIH
  Denese Deeds is co-founder of IHSC, LLC IHSC, LLC (ih-sc.com), where she is the Director of Chemical Regulatory Services. In that function, she prepares safety data sheets (SDS), labels and other hazard communication documents and assists companies with overall chemical regulatory compliance. Prior to founding IHSC, she worked as an industrial hygienist for General Electric and Westinghouse.
  
  Denese is active on the AIHA Stewardship and Sustainability Committee and served on the team that developed the SDS and Label Author Registry. She is an AIHA Fellow, a past president of the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC), a SDS and Label Authoring Registered Specialist, the 2014 recipient of the AIHA Alice Hamilton Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award by SCHC in 2016. Denese is a certified Industrial Hygienist, and also serves as a delegate to the GHS Subcommittee of Experts on the GHS for DGAC.

  Who Should Attend?
  The webinar will be of interest to organisations that are involved, or planning to be involved in the supply of consumer products to the United States, and to anyone who is interested in consumer regulation for supply to the US market.

  Registration
  The webinar is free of charge for members of CHCS: please click on the REGISTER button on this web page. 

  You will receive an email of confirmation and then an email from GoToWebinar explaining how to join the event on the day.

  We are also pleased to offer the webinar free-of-charge to members of BADGP and SCHC (click on the links to see how to register).

  If you are interested in attending, but not a member of these organisations, you can JOIN CHCS and then register, free-of-charge. Further webinars on a variety of topics are also being planned.

  Questions?
  If you have any questions, please email: enquiries@chcs.org.uk.

  Your Attention Is Drawn To These Conditions
  CHCS reserves the right to alter or cancel the programme due to circumstances beyond our control.

  
  

  

       
  

  Members Of BADGP & SCHC
  

  CHCS is delighted to have arrangements with:

  • British Association of Dangerous Goods Professionals (BADGP) and
  • US-based Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC)

  Members of both organisations can attend CHCS events at CHCS member-only rates and vice versa. If you are a member of either organisation and wish to attend this course, please visit the Partners page of our website and follow the links to the web page of the organisation to see how to register.  

  

  Your Attention Is Drawn To These Conditions

  CHCS reserves the right to alter or cancel the programme due to circumstances beyond our control. 

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• Webinar: Canada Consumer Chemical Product Labelling

  • When
    12 June 2024
  •  
    14:00 - 16:00
  • Location
    Online, webinar
  • Spaces left
    200

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  Webinar: Canada Consumer Chemical Product Labelling

  Webinar Overview

  Unlike the European Union and United Kingdom, Canada does not use any version of the GHS for the labelling of consumer chemicals. Labelling of these products is covered by the Canadian Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001 (CCCR). Net contents declarations are covered by the Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act and Regulations.
  
  This webinar will review these labelling requirements and the requirements for child resistant packaging.

  The webinar will cover the following:

  • What is a consumer product?
  • Hazard classification
  • Chemicals requiring special labelling
  • Required label elements
  • Presentation, symbol and type size, location and order
  • Language requirements
  • Child resistant packaging requirements
  • Net contents declarations (form, size, placement)

      Our Presenter
  

  Denese A. Deeds, CIH
  Denese Deeds is co-founder of IHSC, LLC IHSC, LLC (ih-sc.com), where she is the Director of Chemical Regulatory Services. In that function, she prepares safety data sheets (SDS), labels and other hazard communication documents and assists companies with overall chemical regulatory compliance. Prior to founding IHSC, she worked as an industrial hygienist for General Electric and Westinghouse.
  
  Denese is active on the AIHA Stewardship and Sustainability Committee and served on the team that developed the SDS and Label Author Registry. She is an AIHA Fellow, a past president of the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC), a SDS and Label Authoring Registered Specialist, the 2014 recipient of the AIHA Alice Hamilton Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award by SCHC in 2016. Denese is a certified Industrial Hygienist, and also serves as a delegate to the GHS Subcommittee of Experts on the GHS for DGAC.

  Who Should Attend?
  The webinar will be of interest to organisations that are involved, or planning to be involved in the supply of consumer products to Canada, and to anyone who is interested in consumer regulation for supply to the Canadian market.

  Registration
  The webinar is free of charge for members of CHCS: please click on the REGISTER button on this web page. 

  You will receive an email of confirmation and then an email from GoToWebinar explaining how to join the event on the day.

  We are also pleased to offer the webinar free-of-charge to members of BADGP and SCHC (click on the links to see how to register).

  If you are interested in attending, but not a member of these organisations, you can JOIN CHCS and then register, free-of-charge. Further webinars on a variety of topics are also being planned.

  Questions?
  If you have any questions, please email: enquiries@chcs.org.uk.

  Your Attention Is Drawn To These Conditions
  CHCS reserves the right to alter or cancel the programme due to circumstances beyond our control.

  
  

  

       
  

  Members Of BADGP & SCHC
  

  CHCS is delighted to have arrangements with:

  • British Association of Dangerous Goods Professionals (BADGP) and
  • US-based Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC)

  Members of both organisations can attend CHCS events at CHCS member-only rates and vice versa. If you are a member of either organisation and wish to attend this course, please visit the Partners page of our website and follow the links to the web page of the organisation to see how to register.  

  

  Your Attention Is Drawn To These Conditions

  CHCS reserves the right to alter or cancel the programme due to circumstances beyond our control. 

  Show details