Reducing Risk by Reducing Hazard – Use of Chemical Hazard Screening as the First Step in the Assessment Process

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10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.37How to use a DOI?

Keywords

chemical hazard screening, assessment process

Abstract

With the introduction of materials specific legislation, such as RoHS in 2003, the pace of change of materials in the electronics industry has seen a dramatic increase. Changing materials is costly, and an important business need is the development of a process to select alternatives that will not need to be substituted in the future. To guard against multiple substitutions, the alternatives selected need to have lower impacts on human health and the environment. According to the principles of green chemistry the most efficient way to reduce overall risk is to use less hazardous materials in product design. To guard against regrettable substitution, and future restriction, an alternatives assessment process including chemical hazard assessment as the first step in the process is described. Example applications of the alternatives assessment process are introduced.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hans Wendschlag
AU  - Cory Robertson
AU  - Helen Holder
AU  - Curtis Wray
PY  - 2014/08
DA  - 2014/08
TI  - Reducing Risk by Reducing Hazard – Use of Chemical Hazard Screening as the First Step in the Assessment Process
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 conference ICT for Sustainability
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 306
EP  - 310
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.37
DO  - 10.2991/ict4s-14.2014.37
ID  - Wendschlag2014/08
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