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Canada’s New Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) & the Occupational Hygienist

Canada’s New Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) & the Occupational Hygienist. Elizabeth Walpac, CIH, ROH Senior SHE Specialist Nalco Canada Co. CMP - Topics Covered. Scope and Origins of the CMP Some current actions taking place

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Canada’s New Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) & the Occupational Hygienist

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  1. Canada’s New Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) & the Occupational Hygienist Elizabeth Walpac, CIH, ROH Senior SHE Specialist Nalco Canada Co.

  2. CMP - Topics Covered • Scope and Origins of the CMP • Some current actions taking place • Items that may be of interest to the practicing Occupational Hygienist • Brief comparison with other programs such as Europe’s REACH and the U.S. HPV program.

  3. CMP - Overview • Announced December 8, 2006 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Rona Ambrose, Minister of Environment and Tony Clement, Minister of Health • Plan to take immediate action to regulate chemicals that are harmful to human health or the environment. • Make Canada a world leader in assessing and regulating chemicals used in thousands of industrial and consumer products • Establishes a new information baseline that sets clear priorities for action that are science based.

  4. CMP – Foundation or Origins • Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA)1999 set a goal for the Government of Canada to sort through or “categorize” all 23,000 ‘existing’ chemical substances • ‘Existing’ is chemical substances that were in use in Canada between Jan 1, 1984 and Dec 31, 1986 and mostly referred to as the Domestic Substance List (DSL) • 4,300 substances met categorization criteria

  5. CMP – Categorization Criteria • Inherently toxic to humans or to non-human organisms as determined by laboratory or other studies and that might be: • Persistent (take a very long time to break down) and/or • Bioaccumulative (collect in living organisms and end up in the food chain) • e.g. PBiT,PiT,BiT • Substances to which individuals in Canada have greatest potential for exposure (GPE)

  6. CMP - Key Objectives • Strengthen CEPA’s coordination with other federal statutes, including: Hazardous Products Act, Food & Drugs Act and Pest Control Products Act. • Establish Government Accountability: Enhanced risk communication to Canadians, Increased research activities • Strengthen industry’s role by proactively identifying and safely managing risks associated with chemicals they produce and use.

  7. CMP Scope: Sample of what is Included • Challenge to Industry – High concern substances • Significant New Activity Controls (SNACs) - Restrictions on re-introduction and new uses • Rapid Screening of lower risk chemical substances • Accelerated re-evaluation of older pesticides • Prohibitions of Substances &Virtual Elimination List • Regulations to address environmental risks posed by pharmaceuticals and personal care products • Petroleum Sector – Unique risk assessment and management circumstances • International engagement, monitoring, and research • Good stewardship of chemical substances

  8. CMP – Some Actions Taking Place • Challenge to Industry • 193 chemical substances identified that are potentially harmful to human health or the environment that represent the highest priorities for risk assessment and appropriate controls (PBiT, GPE) • Every three months batches of 15-30 substances are being released to stakeholders • Rapid Screening • 1066 substances using worst-case scenario to determine if further assessment is necessary. • 312 substances now identified as medium priorities.

  9. CMP – Industry Challenge • Mandatory CEPA Section 71 Surveys to Importers, Manufacturers, and Users of Chemicals • No de minimis for concentration, impurities covered. 100 kg/year trigger for reporting Import & Manufacture. 1000 kg/year for use. • Substances are batched in groups of 15-30 and publicized in Canada Gazette Part 1. • Third Batch already released (examples of substances include: 2-Methoxyacetate and Diethylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether)

  10. CMP – Section 71 Surveys Mandatory Data collected includes: • Use Patterns for the Substance • Volumes Released or Transferred to off-site waste management facility data • Procedures to prevent/minimize release to environment or potential exposure to Canadians, • Handling procedures to minimize dusts/vapours/spills • Clean-up procedures & Emergency planning • Regulatory/voluntary agreements in place to minimize releases

  11. CMP – Section 71 Surveys Mandatory Data collected includes (cont’d): • Studies or data that measure effect of these procedures/policies • Studies or data that measure the exposure to the substance of individuals in Canada – specify indoor air (i.e Occupational Hygiene type Reports) in the guidelines to most recent survey

  12. CMP Industry Challenge - Voluntary Survey? Management/Stewardship Information • Occupational Health and Safety Regime • Emergency Plans • ISO 9001/14000 Certification • Process Safety Management Potential Actions • Substance Replacement/Substitution • Spill and Leak Prevention and Minimization • Some now being asked for in the Section 71 Survey

  13. CMP – Industry Challenge Chemical Substance Profiles • Government Publishing of Chemical Substance Profiles for Industry Challenge Substances • Exposure Information based on use • Trade Names • Industrial and Consumer Uses • Health Related Hazard Information • Uncertainties • Physical and Chemical properties • Releases, Fate and Presence in the Environment • Evaluation of Persistence, Bioaccumulative, and Inherently Toxic properties

  14. CMP – State of Science Reports • Government Publishing of State of Science Reports - examples of Data included: • Identity, uses and Sources of Exposure • Exposure Assessment and Hazard Characterization • Estimates of exposure by inhalation & dermal contact to substances when used by individuals (i.e. Hygiene Modeled Data) • Risk Evaluation • Conclusion for Human Health • Summary of Health Effects • Will be used for Risk Assessment

  15. CMP – and the Occupational Hygienist • Benefits • More information will be publicly available for Toxicological data • Opportunity to improve MSDSs, Occupational Hygiene Programs. • Contributions that Hygienist can make: • Share exposure data with Government (mandatory under Section 71, otherwise voluntary) • Share expertise on control measures, etc.

  16. CMP – Some Brief Comparisons with other Global Programs EU’s REACH • Registration of Manufactured or Imported Chemical substances • Evaluation of the Information supplied and safety in the use of selected substances (risk-based) • Authorization for CHemicals of High concern (e.g. carcinogens, persistent and bioaccumulative) Aim is substitution where possible.

  17. REACH and the Occupational Hygienist • Chemical Safety Reports to be attached to SDS (MSDS) • One requirement - Exposure Assessment which contains: • Exposure Scenario • Concentration of Substance in Product, exposure limits • How Handled • Duration and Frequency of Use • Must be Use Specific (i.e.use of substance in paint production) • Recommended Risk Management Measures (PPE , etc.) • Based on Assessment, a use may not be allowed.

  18. U.S. HPV Program - What is it? • Ongoing challenge program to make Health and Environmental effects data publicly available on chemicals produced or imported in the U.S. in the greatest Quantities • Origins – Gaps in basic data to understand & characterize potential hazards associated with High Production Volume (HPV) chemicals • Chemical manufactures and importers agreed to sponsor and collect basic hazard data • September 2007 - Release of first set of Chemical Hazard Characterizations.

  19. EU REACH, CMP, and U.S. HPV – A connection • Deal with ‘existing’ substances • Work to Assess Risks of Chemicals • Include measures to obtain existing data to minimize need for additional testing • U.S. & Canada plan to collaborate timing of assessments to some extent. REACH submitters/evaluators can benefit from early U.S. and Canadian work. REACH registration dossiers can help follow-up testing needs for U.S. HPVs • All will likely lead to Increased Control of Chemicals

  20. CMP, U.S. HPV, & REACH links • CMP: http://www.chemicalsubstanceschimiques.gc.ca/en/index.html • CMP State of Science Reports http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/contaminants/index_e.html Click on Existing substances under Screening Assessment Reports • U.S. HPV: http://www.epa.gov/hpv/ • REACH: http://ecb.jrc.it/reach/ • REACH/Hygienist: http://www.bohs.org click hot topics, REACH, & The Role for Occupational Hygienists • OECD ChemPortal: http://webnet3.oecd.org/echemportal/

  21. THANK YOU!Elizabeth Walpac, CIH, ROHSenior SHE SpecialistNalco Canada Co.905-632-8791 ext 224email: ewalpac@nalco.com

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