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News Release from: HSE Health and Safety Executive
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2006
HSE launches REACH help desk
Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals (REACH) help desk will assist businesses in getting to grips with new regulations
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), from today, will be providing a help desk to support UK business in the run-up to the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals (REACH) regulations coming into force The help desk can be contacted on 0845 408 9575 or via email at mailto:ukreachca@hse.gsi.gov.uk REACH is a new European regime for the regulation of chemicals, for which HSE will be the Competent Authority (CA), aimed at ensuring a high level of protection for human health and the environment from hazardous chemicals
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 1 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Once fully operational the CA, in addition to providing the help desk, will monitor compliance, evaluate substances of concern, as well as taking regulatory action as appropriate, coordinate UK enforcement of the regulations The CA will work closely with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Environment agency, the devolved administrations and other government departments and liaise with the new European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki.
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