The working group provides technical
evaluation and support for legislation development. Our area of expertise
is chemical safety engineering.
We focus on physical-chemical hazards in
the areas:
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International and European legislation
for chemicals
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National regulations for dangerous
substances
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Legislation for the safety of
plants.
We impart the experience and competence
of Department 2 particularly through
in these areas of legislation.
Further areas of our work are
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Further progress in the safety of
plants
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Organisation of interlaboratory tests
(round-robin tests)
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Participation in the REACH-CLP Helpdesk (www.reach-clp-helpdesk.de)
We attend to questions relating to
specific substance groups in close cooperation with colleagues of all divisions
of Department 2 and of Division 3 Chemical Physics and Explosion Protection of
the PTB (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt).
The following figure displays the main
areas of legislation and regulations for which physical-chemical hazards are
important, illustrates important interfaces and shows some of the committees in
which the working group is participating actively.
Participation in committees
The most
important committees in
which the working group is participating are listed below. In some areas of
special importance for physical hazards we are also active in further,
downstream committees and working groups.
Last update: 19 November 2009
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UN SCE GHS - United Nations
Sub-Committee of Experts on the GHS
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UN working group on chemically unstable
gases (Chair)
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AGS - Ausschuss für Gefahrstoffe
(committee for dangerous substances), advice to the BMAS (Federal Ministry of
Labour) regarding the hazardous substances ordinance and the TRGS (technical
rules)
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UA I des AGS - Gefahrstoffmanagement
(dangerous substances management)
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EU/TWG - Technical Working Group Seveso
and GHS, Committee of the MAHB (Major Accidents Hazards Bureau) regarding the
revision of the scope of the Seveso-II-Directive
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KAS - Kommission für Anlagensicherheit
(Commission on Process Safety), advice to the BMU (Federal Ministry of the
Environment) regarding legislation on major accidents
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AS-ER der KAS - Ereignisauswertung
(evaluation of incidents)
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AS-EB der KAS - Erfahrungsberichte
(reports)
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AK-GHS der KAS, National committee
mirroring EU TWG "Seveso and GHS
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AK-PB der KAS - Probabilistik
(probalilistic methods)
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ProcessNet-AA - Risikomanagement (risk
management)
