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16/08/2010
CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme)
directly affects around 5,000 public and private sector
organisation in the UK, many of which are yet to take any
action. *The deadline for registration is 30 September
2010.* After this date, organisations are subject to
penalties, starting from £5,000, and will also be subject
to a £500 per day fine. In response to this, AEA have
developed an online report tool to help you with CRC
compliance.
09/07/2010
From December 2010 there is a requirement for all newly
produced pure substances to be classified under CLP (the
Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and
Mixtures Regulation), which is the European variant of the
Globally Harmonised System (GHS) for classification and
labelling of chemicals. *In recognition of this, NCEC has
recently launched an upgrade to ChemeDox® to include a CLP
search interface.*
07/07/2010
Lithium Batteries: safe handling and transport training.
Come and join us on 14 September for a half-day course.
The training offers an insight into the requirements for the
safe handling and regulations regarding the transport of
Lithium batteries.
18/06/2010
Substances of very high concern are substances that have
hazards with severe consequences. Substances meeting the
criteria may be placed on a list. The list of SVHCs was
first published on 28 October 2008 and was last updated on
30th March 2010. This list is known as the Candidate List
and all substances are added by the European Chemicals
Agency (ECHA). SVHC may have very serious, or in some cases,
irreversible affects on both people and the environment,
hence the reason for their authorisation.
16/06/2010
NCEC recently surveyed a range of chemical and health and
safety experts and found that only 33% of people understood
how to comply with CLP and GHS. *Are you one of the 67% of
people who don’t understand how to comply with CLP and
GHS?* NCEC offer CLP training to help you understand how
to comply. We have just announced two new dates:
10/08/2010 and 11/08/2010.
14/06/2010
Notes of a meeting held on 1 June 2010 to consider the
formation of a British Professional Association for anyone
involved in the Transport/Carriage of Dangerous Goods can be
downloaded here
31/05/2010
Information on CLP, REACH, ADR 2011 and other legislation
updates, as well as information on training and NCEC out and
about. Click here to read the newsletter
31/05/2010
(EU) 453/2010 amending REACH re Annex II now available as a
pdf download
17/05/2010
Downstream users of chemicals have the opportunity to check
whether the critical chemical substances that they need are
going to be registered in time. ECHA has published a list of
all the chemical substances that companies have told us they
plan to register for the 2010 REACH deadline. If a substance
should be registered in 2010 and it is not, it will be
illegal to manufacture or sell it within the EU after 30
November 2010.
14/05/2010
The new guidance is intended for companies who recycle and
recover as recycled or recovered chemical substances do not
necessarily need to be registered under REACH.
03/05/2010
In the last two years a couple of issues have emerged
relating to the level of training and expertise of those
involved in the transport/carriage of dangerous goods. One
issue has been the growing international awareness that the
levels of expertise of those involved in the transport of
dangerous goods is being lost, with the consequential
increased risk of a significant dangerous goods
accident/incident. What can be done to address this
problem? *A meeting is being held on 1st June 2010 to
discuss the potential establishment of a British
Professional Association for DGSAs and others involved in
the transport or carriage of dangerous goods. * Talks
include talks by DfT, DGSAAI & NCEC. Download the
information pdf or contact us for more information.
29/04/2010
As has recently been reported the production of cricket bats
may well be reduced this year. This is due to the Indian
government only allowing imports of English Willow into the
country that have been fumigated with methyl bromide. Though
the wood is grown in England, more specifically East Anglia,
India is the worlds leading bat manufacturing nation.
26/04/2010
Changes have been made to the following: 1- The Carriage
of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure
Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SR 2010/160)
which comes into operation on 19 May and 2- The Carriage of
Explosives Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (SR 2010/59)
23/04/2010
Need help answering the fundamental question about an SDS?
"Does this document provide me with the information to take
the necessary steps to protect people and environment?"
30/03/2010
Mephedrone has seen its fair share of news coverage in the
past few months but what is it and what does it actually do?
16/03/2010
The 'Get Compliant' section of the NCEC website now has a
new page to add to the family.
12/03/2010
The NCEC March 2010 Newsletter is now available online.
Topics include legislation, new Hazchem Posters, chemical
safety training, a look behind the scenes, and more
01/03/2010
The 2010 Hazmat Event promised to be bigger and better than
ever before and thanks to ongoing support from both the
Emergency Services and a large variety of other Hazmat
Professionals, this promise was not broken.
17/02/2010
As an extension to ChemeDox®, NCEC’s comprehensive
chemical safety documentation management system, we have now
added a new SDS Location module. This module is designed
to save you time and money on audits, process reviews and
daily tasks, and will help you comply with legislation
associated wit the provision of chemical safety information
to employees and subcontractors. It allows you to assign
your SDSs to particular locations, then view and search your
documents by, for example, site, store, production line, lab
etc. The module is tailored to your business so you can
search your documents in a way that is relevant to you,
whilst maintaining your audit trail by location.
08/02/2010
Not only have NCEC just launched the new Chemdata customer
portal, but Chemdata has never been better value! The
latest version of Chemdata has an extra 1,000 substances and
4,000 extra synonyms and Trade names. This brings the
grand total of substances to 36,000 with over 116,000
synonyms and Trade names.
The Customer Portal allows our customers to download the
latest versions of Chemdata and Pocket Chemdata, as well as
get to know more about the Chemdata team here at NCEC. We
would like to thank our customers for the overwhelming
positive feedback, it makes all the hard work worth while.
29/01/2010
Marine incidents involving chemical substances are more
complex to deal with than oil spills (for which several
simulation tools already exist). Dealing with one single
substance dispersed at sea can be difficult enough, but when
two or more are present these may interact in a wholly
different way, forming complex chemical compounds. In
addition, the variables required to assess the exact
conditions of each incident are many, including tidal
currents, weather patterns and proximity to population
centres.
15/01/2010
NCEC's first newsletter of 2010 (covering legislation
changes, Hazmat 2010 and much more) is now available online