REACH - Chemical
REACH is based on the idea that industry itself is best placed to ensure that the Chemicals it manufactures puts on the EU / UK market do not adversely affect human health or the environment. This requires that industry has right knowledge of their substance properties and manages the potential risks. We help to ensure you are meeting this obligations, successful registration and prevent use of substances of very high concern.
REACH Aims To:
- Get Manufacturers and Importers to:
- Generate information on hazards of chemicals
- Assess & Manage Risks of chemicals
- Register the chemicals for all uses
- Ensure Information regarding risks posed by chemicals is available
- To users
- Regulators
- General public
- Encourage Industry to Develop
- Substances less dangerous to health
- Substances less damaging to the environment
- Permit EU/ UK Authorities to take faster action regarding chemical risks and hazards
- Enhance the competitiveness of the EU/ UK chemicals industry
- Promote alternative methods for the assessment of hazards of substances
- Ensure the free circulation of substances on the internal market of the European Union
