Health and Safety Executive

Working Group on Action to Control Chemicals (WATCH) agenda

Thursday 23rd – Friday 24th October 2008

Sub-committee of the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances

14th Meeting, Crowne Plaza, Birmingham NEC

Item Description Notes
Thursday 23rd October 2008
10.45am – 5.00pm
Coffee 10.15 – 10.45 am
1 Administrative Issues
2 Asbestos : The risks of mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to relatively low-level exposures to different forms of asbestos. What statements can reliably be made about risk at different exposure levels? WATCH/2008/7
Lunch 1.00 – 1.30
3 Welding Fume and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) WATCH/2008/8
4 Futures (Horizon Scanning) Bronwen Ley (HSL)
Friday 24th October 2008
9.00 am – 3.00 pm
5 Minutes of 13th Meeting held on 17 June 2008
Matters arising / Secretary’s report
WATCH/Min/2008/2
WATCH/SecReport/2008/3
6 SCOEL activities Professors Hay & Levy
7 Lead : Current Regulatory Position WATCH/2008/9
  Coffee 10.30 – 11.00 am  
8 A Safe Guide to Handling and Disposal of Manufactured Nanomaterials WATCH/2008/10
  Lunch 12.30 – 1.30  
9 Azo dye penetrants - update John McAlinden (HSE)
10 Date of next meeting 24th February 2009
Rose Court, London
11 AOB
- If Members have items of AOB, please inform the
Secretariat before the meeting

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