Acrylonitrile spill at local Deakin campus

Brussels, 12 October 2018 - Cefic welcomes the Commission’s adoption of the new Bioeconomy Strategy. The bioeconomy is offering an EXCITING opportunity for the European chemical industry to CREATE NEW PRODUCTS AND diversify its raw material base. Cefic acknowledges that the Commission is on the right track with the three main action...

To tie in with the Healthy Workplaces Manage Dangerous Substances campaign, EU-OSHA has created new infosheets on two important topics in this area.Practical tools and guidance on dangerous substances in workplaces looks at the importance of such resources in limiting workers’ exposure to harmful substances. It describes and links to many exi...

Today, the European Parliament and the Council came to an agreement on the Commission's second proposal to broaden the list of recognised cancer-causing chemicals in the workplace. With this agreement, 8 additional cancer-causing chemicals will be covered by the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive, including diesel exhaust. Commissioner fo...

The House version of the farm bill would take away the right of local communities to limit exposure to hazardous chemicals. The version of the farm bill passed by the House of Representatives is bad in a number of obvious ways, such as the effort to replicate Maine’s misguided food-assistance reforms nationwide.But also in the huge bill ...

ASTM International’s committee on occupational health and safety is developing a standard that aims to support safety by preventing foams that can damage machines and tools used in metalworking.The proposed standard will describe protocols to evaluate the foaming tendency of water-miscible metalworking fluid (MWF).Tests outlined in the s...