Chemical safety assessment

A Chemical safety assessment (CSA) is an analysis used in many situations where chemical are used and where there is a possibility that they may present a risk to life, health or the environment.

The European Union has adopted this phrase to describe a process that has to be performed by registrants for substances manufactured and imported in quantities starting at 10 tonnes per year and by downstream users if their uses are not addressed by their supplier," according to REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) legislation.[1]

The CSA includes the evaluation of all available relevant information in order to assess risks arising from the manufacture and/or use of a substance. The process needs to be documented adequately and the results have to be documented in a chemical safety report (CSR), which is to be submitted to the European Chemicals Agency as part of the respective registration dossier. The purpose is to ensure that the risks related to the substance are controlled.

The chemical safety assessment of a substance comprises the following steps:[2]

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has developed a software tool to support industry in preparing a Chemical Safety Assessment (CSA) and Chemical Safety Report (CSR).[3]

Chemical Safety Report

Chemical Safety Reports are the main end point for data assessment under REACH (the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use, concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances[4]) in which hazard and exposure data are considered together to assess the risk of a substance.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Chemical Safety Assessment and Report". guidance.echa.europa.eu. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  2. "Chemical safety report – chemical safety assessment". www.dguv.de. Archived from the original on 2012-02-29. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
  3. "News - Chesar - ECHA". chesar.echa.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  4. "REACH". ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
  5. "Risk Assessment of Chemicals". www.denehurst.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
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