Safety and Risk Management projects
New EU-project: REACH contribution to development of emerging technologies.
The focus of the study is on how REACH AND CLP foster the development, commercialisation and rapid time-to-market of products of emerging technologies. The EU regulatory framework is in principle technology neutral and forward looking. However, in some areas fragmented regulatory framework or regulatory uncertainties may be a reason for lack of private investments in early technologies, e.g. into uspcaling or market uptake. This may reduce the full potential exploitation of emerging technologies as a means of addressing the EU 2020 challenges. The focus of this work is to analyse how emerging technologies can be smoothly and effectively introduced on the market within the given legislative framework, and whether the legislative framework can capture specific issues potentially raised by a new technology. Specific attention will be paid to the potential for enhancing success of spin-offs and SMEs. (DG Enterprise and Industry, 2011-2012).
Guidance for TDG safety adviser
In a project for the Ministry of Transport and Communications, guidance for Dangerous Goods Safety Advisers (DGSA) was developed. The guidance contains helpful examples and tools, and demonstrates how to optimize the benefits that the work done by the safety adviser can bring to a company. The guidance is intended to support safety advisers in their daily work, and to encourage companies to invest in transport of dangerous goods safety and to ensure safety advisers are appointed. The focus in the guide is on road transport and specifically on transport of packed good. The specific requirements that arise from changes of transport mode, or from sea or air transport, are demanding issues that are highlighted in the guidance. The Safety Advisers work has many common interfaces with the company’s general safety work. In this guidance, the approach taken is to encourage development of an overall safety management approach to dangerous goods. (Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland, 2010-2011.)
Chemical Substitution: from Principles to Practice
The EU project focused on practical matters of substitution of hazardous chemicals in the workplace. A practical guidance document was developed providing methodology for how to carry out effective and targeted substitution, including examples of successful substitution in practice. (The project was funded by the Employment, Social Affairs and Equal opportunities DG, 2010-2011).
VIRIKE – risks in Finnish water supply
The risk management practices used by water supply facilities and key stakeholders in Finland were reviewed and challenges evaluated in the VIRIKE project. The outcome of the project indicates that the level of risk management varies significantly in Finland. Every fourth water supply facility of the project’s questionnaire respondents has not done any risk evaluation. (2009)
KERTTU – For safer transport hubs
In the multi-stakeholder KERTTU project different transport sectors and authorities jointly developed a major accident hazard assessment methodology suitable for assessing risk associated with Transport of Dangerous Goods (TDG) hubs. (2008-2009)
