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13-March-2013
English
This is a guidance document for senior leaders in high hazard industries on Corporate Governance for Process Safety. It aims to strike a balance between risk and benefit by drawing the attention of those at the top of industry to the need for high standards of corporate governance in relation to the management of high hazard industries.
8-March-2013
English, PDF, 83kb
This inventory includes recent policy briefs, brochures and flyers related to the environment and chemical safety programmes.
27-February-2013
English
This document compares sectors of industrial activities and their reporting thresholds among different national / regional PRTRs to improve the comparability of PRTR data, and proposes a harmonised list of sectors.
14-February-2013
English
This is the report of the workshop on Natural-hazard triggered technological accidents (Natech) that took place 23-25 May 2012. It investigated the specific elements of the prevention of, preparedness for, and response to chemical accidents caused by natural hazard or natural disaster.
4-January-2013
English
This document outlines the current status of and available guidance documents/tools on the application, use and presentation of PRTR data in OECD member countries and the Commission for Environmental Co-operation based on the results of a survey conducted in November 2011.
23-May-2012
English
The workshop will investigate the specific elements of the prevention of, preparedness for, and response to chemical accidents caused by natural hazard or natural disaster.
12-April-2012
English
This document identifies general pollutant classes, proposes unique identifiers for pollutants and identifies common substances across different national/regional PRTRs.
12-April-2012
English
Documents in the Environment, Health and Safety Division series on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers.
27-January-2012
English
This report was initiated by the OECD’s Sustainable Chemistry Issue Team. Previous work within the OECD attempted to use patent data to better understand innovative activity in sustainable chemistry. However, more information and analysis is needed to understand the dynamics of innovation in this area, especially from the industrial perspective. In order to begin the process in a preliminary way, researchers from the Yale Center for
28-July-2011
English
This case study intends to illustrate this concept for the short chain methacrylates,originally composed of four chemicals, for the bioaccumulation endpoint. The OECD QSAR Toolbox identified about 160 chemicals potentially falling within the applicability domain of the original category, and the hypothesis tested in this case study is the possibility to predict the bioaccumulation potential for untested members of the category. The
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