Environmental Health Department- National Institute of Health – Porto, Portugal
Project title
Implement International Chemical Control Toolkit (ICCT) In Portugal and in some African countries not yet identified.
Keywords
Risk management – Chemical exposure
Project leader
Email address
João Paulo Teixeira
Environmental Health Department
Rua Alexandre Herculano, 321
4000-055 Porto, Portugal
Joao.teixeira@insa.min-saude.pt
Partners (of the CC Network)
FUNDACENTRO
NIOH South Africa
NIOSH
Other partners
University of Porto; OHS professionals; Business Association (cork industry; shoe manufacturing sector; wood furniture industry)
Funding
INSA and Industrial sectors Associations financial support. Others not yet identified
Objective of the
project
- To test, eventually adapt, and implement the ICCT in selected small enterprises, namely: cork industry, shoe manufacturing and wood furniture industry
- To establish cooperation in this respect with African Portuguese speaking countries
Project outcome(s)
and deadline(s) for completion of the
project
- Specific Toolkits for the selected branches, namely cork, shoe manufacturing and wood furniture manufacturing
- Reports; brochures about specific ICCT applications
Deadline: 2010
Target group and/or beneficiaries
Small and Medium enterprises (Cork materials; Shoe manufacturing; Wood furniture) Occupational hygienists
VI National Congress on Occupational Health (Póvoa do Varzim; 2-4 / Nov/ 2006
Course Summary:
Chemicals in workplaces
Exposure to chemicals and Health impact
Exposure assessment (air monitoring and biological monitoring)
Risk assessment. Terms and Concepts
Chemical Control Tool Kit
Case-study: CCTK application
Activity plan in 2007:
Validation of CCTK (Portuguese version) in some industrial sectors
Contact with SME’s (cork; paint, varnishes and cleaning solvents; wood furniture and plastic) for implementation and validation of CCTK
Meeting with occupational hygienists working in these industrial units (5 participants (May, 11 – 2007): training on CCTK application and selection of workplaces for validation of the tool.
Participants performed the chemical risk assessment using CCTK in their units (May – September 2007).
Traditional occupational hygiene risk assessment (air monitoring and if possible biological monitoring) ((June – September 1007)
Meeting: analysis of data (September)
Seminar: Proposal for an International Seminar on the Prevention of Occupational Diseases for Portuguese-speaking Countries to be organized by the WHO hosted by Centre of Environmental and Occupational Health, National Institute of Health, Porto to be held on 29-31st October.
There was also contact with FUNDACENTRO in order to revised the Portuguese version of CCTK and validate the tool in different sectors.
List of outcomes already achieved by this project
Preventing Occupational Hearing Loss - A Practical Guide' . U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Nacional Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, October 1996- to Portuguese language;
Organization of the "Prevention of Occupational diseases International Seminar" 30-31 October 2007, Porto, Portugal
Organization of the " Occupational Exposure to Cytostatics " 12 November 2007- Porto, Portugal with the collaboration of Dr. Rudolf Schierl, Institute for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Munich, WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Medicine
Validated the Portuguese version of "International Chemical Control Tool kit’’ in the wood furniture industry.
List of additional outcomes expected from this project by 2012
Validation of the Portuguese version of "International Chemical Control Tool kit’’ in the cork industry (end 2011).
Organization of International Symposia in Toxicology and Environmental Health with a special topic in Prevention of Occupational Diseases (September 2011) Porto, Portugal.
Establishing cooperation to implement International Chemical Control Toolkit (ICCT) in Angola (2010-2012).
2009-2012 Work Plan Number
GPA2.11e
Formerly AA3: Ch9
GPA Objective
Objective 2: To protect and promote health at the workplace
CC or NGO Name
National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing
Project title
Application and expansion of Control Banding of chemicals and dust on small and middle-scale enterprises (SMEs) in China
Keywords
Application, control banding, chemicals, dust, small and middle-scale enterprises
Project leader
Email address
Tao Li
niohplt@sina.com
Partners (of the CC
Network)
IOHA and NIOSH
Other partners
Li chaolin, Le shuang, Ren jun, Zhang min, Chen qingsong
Funding
National finance support of China, WHO, ILO
Objective of the project
To build different industries models of occupational health (such as in shoemaking, quartz making, concrete making, storage battery making enterprises, etc.). To expand the successful experiences of Control Banding of Chemicals in SMEs.
Project outcome(s) and
deadline(s) for
completion of the
project
Translation about the advanced Control Banding of chemicals into Chinese.
Expansion of Control Banding of chemicals in SMEs. Some chemical toolkit.
Target group and/or
beneficiaries
Policy makers, occupational health and safety researchers, enterprise managers, workers
Summary of the project
Translate the advanced Control Banding of chemicals into Chinese. Investigate the occupational hazard risk of chemicals in different enterprises.
Train the manager, health care workers, etc. about control banding of chemicals. Select some pilot enterprises using control banding of chemicals. Summarize and expand the experiences in pilot enterprises to other enterprises.
Dissemination
WHO documents and National documents
Impact (global or
regional)
Both global and national
Progress on Project
We have finished translating the Control Banding of chemicals into Chinese. Then we trained the manager, health care workers, etc. about control banding of chemicals in some pilot county/district. They study the toolkit of control banding of chemicals and using it into construction projects assessment.
List of major outcomes already achieved by this project
We have held some training course about Control Banding of chemicals. Then the manager, health care workers, etc. in the pilot county/district were trained. In additional, we included some content of the Control Banding of chemicals into the occupational health standards of china, and integrated into the assessment and management of occupational hazards in the workplaces.
We also have developed the pilot program on the health education and promotion in workplaces in cities of 9 provinces, such as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai etc from 2007 to now. The 19 enterprises include pharmacy、machine、metallurgy、oil and chemistry、electric power and electron 7 industries. We have finished that the basic date of pilot enterprises were investigated and analyzed. The information of low and knowledge on the Control Banding of chemicals were also trained for workers in these enterprises.
List of additional major outcomes expected from this project by 2012
We will further extending training about Control Banding of chemicals. Then, we will further making summary for training of Control Banding of chemicals in pilot county /district. Finally, we will recommend practice experience of the Control Banding of chemicals to other enterprises.
2009-2012 Work Plan Number
GPA2.13c
Formerly AA3:Ch1
GPA Objective
Objective 2: To protect and promote health at the workplace
CC or NGO Name
FUNDACENTRO
Project title
Risk Management of Chemicals: Chemical Toolkit Pilot-Project Implementation
Keywords
Pragmatic approach; Small and Medium Enterprises; Risk assessment; Control Banding.
The key objective of this project is to support small and medium-sized enterprises to focus their efforts on both assessment and control of hazards, using the International Chemical Control Toolkit, a user-friendly methodology that provide the user with guidance for controlling exposure to hazards.
Project outcome(s)
and deadline(s) for
completion of the
project
Training small and medium-sized companies owners, employers and employees concerning the important reasons for which to use the toolkit and how to use it adequately. (by 2007).
Quantitative evaluation to validate the Toolkit control strategies adopted by the enterprises involved in this research (by 2007).
Development of a Chemical Toolkit website in Portuguese (by 2007)
Target group and/or
beneficiaries
Small and Medium Enterprises – Foundry and Printers
Summary of the project
In Brazil, as observed in many other countries, problems regarding protection from hazards substances in small-sized enterprises are similar. Looking for a simple tool to assess and to control such exposures, FUNDACENTRO has started in 2005, a pilot-project to implement the International Chemical Control Toolkit to control chemicals in Foundries and Printers.
Dissemination
Training (specific courses concerning about how to use the Toolkit), Meetings and Workshops.
Impact (global or regional)
Regional
Progress on Project
In order to reach the proposed goals, a broad range of activities has been developed. The main results are described bellow:
Awareness raising about hazards prevention and control through diffusion of information, providing free access to the produced Toolkit Guidelines (foundries and printers), available to download from http://www.fundacentro.gov.br/CTN/pub_eletronicas.asp?D=CTN;
Training employers, employees and OSH professionals, concerning the reasons to use the ICCT based guidelines and how to use it. This activity has comprised 05 oral presentations in OSH meetings and postgraduate courses and 03 short-duration training courses (02 in Brazil and 01 in Peru). A distance learning course will be held in august 2007 through the Fundacentro virtual platform.
List of outcomes already achieved by this project
List of additional outcomes expected from this project by 2012
2009-2012 Work Plan Number
GPA2.15q
Formerly AA3:Ch8
GPA Objective
Objective 2: To protect and promote health at the workplace
CC or NGO Name
Department of Occupational Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Project title
Demonstration and evaluation of control banding application in small
The objective for this project is to apply control banding drafted by
the WHO/ILO International Group (2004) in small scale enterprises(SSEs)
Project outcome(s)
and deadline(s) for
completion of the
project
To provide a guideline for control banding in SSEs according to control banding drafted by the WHO/ILO International Group. To demonstrate and evaluate control banding in SSEs in China
Target group and/or
beneficiaries
small scale enterprises
Summary of the
project
According to control banding drafted by the WHO/ILO International Group (2004), we will prepare a guideline and demonstration of control banding in small scale enterprises (SSEs) in China.
Dissemination
Control banding in SSEs in China will be published. Some scientific papers will be published.
Impact (global or
regional)
China
Progress on Project
Training information collected
1 review paper published in Chinese science journal
List of major outcomes already achieved by this project
Integrated with our research activities, we provide 8 factories with consultative service to help them setting up the suitable and cheap engineering measures against lead hazards and ergonomics problem in the process of storage battery production. We help the owner to re-organize the flow-chat. The lead pollution is significantly controlled. From such work, we noted that the knowledge of owner is very important; sometimes they do not know how to control the hazards in cheap way, particularly in the early stage when they do not want to put much money in this area. In China, the role of occupational health service agencies is not completely demonstrated.
List of additional major outcomes expected from this project by 2012
The experiences on control of lad hazards with suitable engineering measures and reasonable organization can be summarized, demonstrated and spread among small scale industrials in China.