Health and Safety Chemical Substances

1. Health and Safety Chemical Substances BG Chemie - Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Chemical Industry

2. Structure • Institutions for statutory accident insurance and prevention • Responsibilities – BG Chemie • Tasks • Prevention - hazardous and biological substances • Prevention - training • Occupational diseases • Information sheets • Information on hazardous substances • Toxicological evaluations

3. Role and structure Sectoral structure • The institutions for statutory accident insurance and prevention are structured according to sector: Health service Transport Mining Commerce and administration Pit and quarry BG Construction Gas, district heating and water Foods and beverages Metal Leather and textiles precision and electrical engineering Paper and printing Wood Chemicals

4. Role and structure Responsibilities – BG Chemie Inorganic chemical industry Organic chemical industry Coatings, paints and dyes, painted goods Soaps, oils, fats Cosm. products Pharmac. products Rubber, plastics Explosives

5. Mandate and tasks Tasks Prevention (preventive measures) Compensation (financial payments) Rehabilitation (medical care, occupational and social reintegration)

6. Prevention Technical Inspectorate The technical inspectors and audit engineers perform the following tasks: Advising and inspecting companies Involvement in basic and advanced training Workplace evaluation based on measurement Ascertaining the causes of accidents at work, occupationaldiseases and occupational risks to health Drawing up rules and regulations, information materials

7. Prevention - hazardous and biological substances • Helping shape national and European chemicals policy in matters relating to occupational and health protection • Helping shape national/international statutory provisions for the specialist areas of "explosion protection" and "transport of hazardous substances" as well as advice on implementation • Advice on implementing national laws and regulations • Evaluation of substances hazardous to health and representing physical, chemical and biological effects • Advising member companies on all issues relating to occupational medicine and toxicology • Performing analyses and chemical investigations at its own laboratory in Leuna

8. Prevention Service for the Organisation of Post-Exposure Medical Examinations (ODIN) Joint establishment of institutions for statutory accident insurance and prevention for trade and industry ODIN ensures that insured employees can still undergo medical examinations even after leaving companies where they worked with carcinogenic substances The associated costs are borne by the accident insurers

9. Prevention - basic and advanced training Communication of principles and specialist knowledge onhazardous substances • Risk management under hazardous substances law • Using hazardous substances • Storage of hazardous substances • Reading and producing material safety datasheets • Measurement of hazardous substances at the workplace - introductory seminar on workplace analysis • Use of portable gas measuring devices for approval measurements • Safe biotechnology - natural biological substances and genetically modified organisms • Working safely in the gas industry - basic seminar

10. Occupational illnesses Number of cases († 150) 286 Asbestos († 147) 193 26 Cancer caused by arom. amines 55 23 Noise 18 21 Resp. tract 30 12 Skin 19

11. Case example: asbestos Compensation payments 2003 Euro 45 million Asbestosis 20% Lung cancer and cancer of the larynx 44% Mesothelioma36%

12. Case example asbestos - new pensions BG Chemie Lung cancer Asbestosis Mesothelioma

13. Information sheet series "Safe Biotechnology" • B 004 „Viruses“ • B 005 „Parasites“ • B 006 „Bacteria“ • B 007 „Fungi“ • B 010 „Primates“

14. Substance information sheets - target group/objective • Information for member companies on findings relating to safety and rules for using hazardous substances • Facilitating practical work by collating and pooling these findings from various sources

15. Substance information sheets • M 034 „Oxygen“ • M 039 „Risk of harm to the unborn child – control measures at the workplace“ • M 050 „Using hazardous substances“ • M 053 „Control measures to prevent exposure to hazardous substances“

16. Information on hazardous substances Sector-specific hazardous substances information systemof BG Chemie – available free of charge at www.gischem.de • Help for SMEs on working with hazardous substances • Sector-oriented datasheets • Protective measures • Drafts for operating instructions • Directory of hazardous substances Assistance in evaluating risk in accordance with the Hazardous Substances Ordinance

17. Information on hazardous substances Polyester resin Polyurethane foam Epoxy resin Technical rubber articles Available sectors Biogas plants Workshops: solvents Animal carcass disposal Currently 8,000 users per month and increasing

18. Programme for the Prevention of Health Hazards Caused by Industrial Substances • Support by a committee of representatives of the scientific community, the chemical industry and the authorities • 514 relevant existing industrial chemicals have been compiled in a list • Literature searches were conducted and preliminary evaluation completed for 257 substances • For 127 substances, 437 studies (including range-finding studies) were planned, commissioned and conducted

19. Programme for the Prevention of Health Hazards Caused by Industrial Substances • TOXIKOLOGISCHE BEWERTUNGEN in German are available in a short version for 244 substances and a detailed long version for 224 substances. • English translations have been published as TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS. • TOXIKOLOGISCHE BEWERTUNGEN and TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS are being published successively on the Internet (www.bgchemie.de/toxikologischebewertungen or www.bgchemie.de/toxicologicalevaluations)