Chemical policy resources

Chemical policy resources

Prepared for the Chemical Policy workshop by Dorothy Wigmore and Eileen Senn

National Worker Safety and Health Summit -- November, 2010

Topic	Source	URL, etc.
Alternatives assessment	Lowell Center for Sustainable Production	http://www.sustainableproduction.org/downloads/FinalAltsAssess06_000.pdf
Alternatives assessment	Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI)	http://www.turi.org/library/turi_publications/five_chemicals_study
Cancer	CAREX Canada	www.carexcanada.ca/
	National Toxicology Program	http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/
	President’s Cancer Panel, National Cancer Institute	http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/pcp.htm
Chemicals policies	European Agency for Safety and Health at Work	europe.osha.eu.int
	European Commission--Environment	http://ec.europa.eu/environment//waste/weee/index_en.htm
	European Union activities	REACH: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/reach/reach_intro.htm GHS: http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_welcome_e.html
	Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH)	www.ttl.fi/en/Pages/default.aspx
Chemicals policies	Lowell Center for Sustainable Production	http://www.chemicalspolicy.org/downloads/StateLeadership.pdf
	Pollution Probe (Canada) and Environmental Defense	http://www.pollutionprobe.org/Reports/Report_Denison_NotThatInnocent.pdf
	Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)	http://www.saicm.org/index.php?ql=h&content=home
Chemicals policies and information	European Environment Agency (particularly the precautionary principle)	reports.eea.eu.int/environmental_issue_report_2001_22/en
Chemicals policies and information	National Institute of Occupational Health (Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt, Norway)	www.stami.no
Exposure effects	California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)	For report and public comments: http://oehha.ca.gov/ej/cipa093010.html
Green chemistry	California EPA	http://www.dtsc.ca.gov/PollutionPrevention/GreenChemistryInitiative/index.cfm
	Great Lakes Green Chemistry Network	http://www.glgc.org/
	E.P. A. Green chemistry	www.epa.gov/greenchemistry www.glgc.org
Green chemistry	Lowell Center for Sustainable Production	http://www.mn-ei.org/projects/images/ChemReg/BkgrdGreenChem/GC3summaryreportcasestudies.pdf
Green chemistry	Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry	http://www.warnerbabcock.com
Information about chemicals	Agency for Toxic Substances and Diseases Registry (ATSDR)	www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/index.asp
	EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)	www.epa.gov/iris/index.html
	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)	http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/chemical.html, www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/default.html http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ptd/
	Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)	http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/index.html
Information about chemicals	Pesticide Action Network (North America)	www.pesticideinfo.org
	Scorecard	www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/
	Tox Net	www.toxnet.nlm.nih.gov
Information about chemicals, and solutions	Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)	http://www.healthandenvironment.org
Life cycle approaches	United Nations Environment Programme	www.unep.fr/pc/sustain/10year/SCP_Resource_Kit.htm (for the Resource kit) lcinitiative.unep.fr/ (Life Cycle Initiative)
MSDSs	New Jersey Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets	http://web.doh.state.nj.us/rtkhsfs/indexfs.aspx
MSDSs	The MSDS FAQ	http://www.ilpi.com/msds/faq/index.html
Organisations	Blue-Green Alliance	www.bluegreenalliance.org
Organisations	BlueGreen Canada	www.bluegreencanada.ca
Other ways	Clean Production Action	www.cleanproduction.org
	SOBANE	http://www.deparisnet.be/SOBANEeng.html
	Story of Stuff project	http://storyofstuff.com/
	Towards Tomorrow	towardtomorrow.org/
Priority substances	California EPA and Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment	http://www.oehha.org/prop65.html
Priority substances	International Chemical Secretariat (Chemsec)	http://www.chemsec.org/
Reducing the use of toxic substances	Dorothy Wigmore	http://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/prevention_resources via http://www.wigmorising.ca
	Green purchasing or procurement	cleanproduction.org/Steps.Products.Green.php europa.eu.int/comm/environment/gpp (European Union)
	Health Care Without Harm	www.noharm.org
	Lowell Center for Sustainable Production	www.sustainableproduction.org
	Lowell Center for Sustainable Production	http://www.sustainableproduction.org/downloads/UMassLowellRetailersReport.pdf
	P2 Gems	www.p2gems.org/
	Pharos database	http://www.pharosproject.net/
Reducing the use of toxic substances	Sustainable Hospitals Project	www.sustainablehospitals.org
Reducing the use of toxic substances	Toxics Use Reduction Institute	http://www.turi.org
Social network	Wiser Earth	http://www.wiserearth.org
Use of chemicals	Substances in Preparations in Nordic Countries (SPIN)	http://195.215.251.229/Dotnetnuke/Home/tabid/58/Default.aspx
Worker-friendly materials	Barefoot Research	www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/ses/info/publ/barefoot.htm - line
	European Trade Union Technical Bureau for Health and Safety	www.etuc.org/tutb
	Hazards Group	www.hazards.org
Worker-friendly materials	International Labour Organisation (ILO) -- “Decent work” and “Safe work” international campaigns	www.ilo.org/public/english/decent.htm www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/index.htm
	Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California at Berkeley	http://www.lohp.org/
	Toxic Free Canada	www.toxicfreecanada.ca

Prepared by Dorothy Wigmore and Eileen Senn

NYCOSH