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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is looking for occupational safety and health experts in the fields of occupational hygiene, chemical exposure assessment and socio-economic analysis.
This call for expression of interest has been made in order to identify potential candidates and to prepare a proposal for their appointment as co-opted members for approval by ECHA’s Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) and the Committee for Socio-economic Analysis (SEAC).
The RAC needs additional expertise in the field of worker protection while SEAC will need experts in analysing cost and benefits of regulation, assessing technical feasibility of alternatives and substitution of substances of concern.
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