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UK customers get offered a country package of UK restriction lists as a standard, to facilitate being compliant with national legislation. All lists are shown in the Overview in iChemistry. The lists offered are described below.
If you have products on any of the list, you'll need to determine if you should substitute the product or in any way adapt your risk assessment. As a first step, you can check the concentration level of the substance that is causing the match. This way you'll get an understanding if the hazardous substance constitutes a significant or minor part of your chemical product.
To identify the substance, you can visit the product's iSafe and find the substance under Restriction- and prohibition lists, under Reason. Then check the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Section 3 or click on 'Show composition' at the bottom of iSafe to see the concentration of that substance in the chemical product.
If you are unsure about how to proceed, we recommend that you contact either your account manager or our EHS experts by emailing consulting@intersolia.com, and they will guide you further.
UK REACH Candidate list
The UK REACH Candidate List is a list of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) that may be recommended for inclusion on the Authorisation List (Annex 14) of UK REACH.
Source: hse.gov.uk
UK REACH Authorisation List
In UK REACH (as in EU REACH) the authorisation process aims to ensure that substances of very high concern (SVHCs) are progressively replaced by less dangerous substances or technologies where feasible alternatives exist.
Source: hse.gov.uk
UK REACH List of restrictions
The restriction list aims to protect human health and/or the environment from risks posed by chemicals on their own, in mixtures or in articles. UK REACH (as in EU REACH) restrictions limit, ban or set conditions on the manufacture, placing on the market or use of a substance or group of substances.
Source: hse.gov.uk
EH40/2005 Workplace exposure limits
Containing the list of British workplace exposure limits for use with the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (as amended).
When you create a risk assessment of a product that has an occupational exposure limit value, you will notice that the system gives you an extra warning in the last step. You'll need to confirm that the exposure limit value will not get exceeded in the handling of the chemical and then click Done.
To assess whether the limit is exceeded, knowledge of how to perform these measurements is required. If you are unsure about how to proceed, we recommend that you contact either your account manager or our EHS experts by emailing consulting@intersolia.com, and they will guide you further.
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