Skip to content

Health and Safety Executive

HSC - Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS)

WATCH sub-committee agenda

8th Meeting, November 2006
Thursday 9th, 10.45 am - 5.00 pm - Friday 10th, 9.00 am - 3.30 pm
Merchant Room, Marriott Hotel, Liverpool City Centre

Item		Description	Notes
Thursday 9 November
	10.15 – 10.45	Coffee am
1	10.45-11.00	Administrative issues
2	11.00-11.20	WEL – request for tender brief & funding proposal
3	11.20-11.40	REACH Competent Authority : current state of play	WATCH/2006/12
4	11.40-12.00	Minutes of 6th meeting held on 20 June ‘06 Matters arising / Secretary’s report / Membership Dates & venues of meetings in 2007 AOB - If members have items of AOB, please inform the Secretariat before the meeting	WATCH/Min/2006/2 WATCH/SecReport/2006/3
	12.00-1.00	Lunch
Open Session 1.00 – 5.00 pm
5	1.00-2.30	COSHH 2002 (as amended)- Communicating the changes	WATCH/2006/6 Annex 1 - COSHH 2002 (as amended) and Effective control of exposure Annex 2 - COSHH 2002 (as amended)- Principles checklist Annex 3 - Communication matrix
6	2.30-3.00	HSE, WATCH and REACH
	3.00-3.30	Coffee
7	3.30-5.00	Disease reduction programme: Cancer project : Nature and extent of use of, and occupational exposure to, chemical carcinogens in the UK	WATCH/2006/7 Annex 1- Priority list of carcinogens of concern identified for Phase 2 review Annex 2 - Detailed summaries of the results from Phase 2 reviews
8	5.00-5.30	COPD prioritisation : up-date on impact of WATCH
Friday 10 November
9	8.30-10.45	REACH Overview of REACH Examples of on-going issues - DNELs Future WATCH involvement	ii. WATCH/2006/8 Annex 1 - EU Preliminary Technical Guidance Document Annex 2 - Specific guidance on mutagens Annex 3 - Specific guidance on carcinogens Annex 4 - HSE paper on genotoxic carcinogens submitted to EU EDG, September 2006 Annex 5- Gold et al (2003) Comparison of cancer risk estimates on a variety of risk assessment methodologies. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 37: 45-53 (not available electronically) Annex 6- Kroes et al. (2004) Structure-based thresholds of toxicological concern (TTC): guidance for application to substances present at low levels in the diet. Food and Chemical Toxicology 42: 65-83 (not available electronically)

	10.45 - 11.00	Coffee & COPI arrive
10	11.00 – 3.00 (Lunch: 12.00-1.00)	New & emerging issues Update on last year’s prioritised topics Working list & new ideas Nanotechnology Exposure data assessment	ii. WATCH/2006/9 Annex 1 - Potential New and Emerging Issues Annex 2 - Relevant Extract from minutes of October 2005 WATCH meeting iii. WATCH /2006/10 Annex 1 - Occupational health aspects of nanotechnologies (WATCH/2005/2) Annex 2 - Relevant extract from January 2005 WATCH meeting Annex 3 - HSE Review- Progress on nanotechnologies iv) WATCH 2006/11 Annex 1 - Relevant extract from minutes of October 2005 WATCH meeting Annex 2 - Occupational hygiene intelligence within HSE (WATCH/2006/4) Annex 3 - Relevant extract from minutes of June 2006 WATCH meeting
11		Date of next New & Emerging Issues meeting Close

Related content

Ask an expert 0845 345 0055

Health and Safety Executive

hse.infoline@connaught.plc.uk

Caerphilly Business Park

Caerphilly CF83 3GG

Directgov - Business Link

Updated 22.05.09