Person moving test tubes that contain dangerous substances.

Alternative Assessment and Substitution of Dangerous Substances at Workplaces

9th – 11th of February 2021
Online course

About this course

Substitution of many substances of concern can be easier when you know the basic concepts of alternative assessment and substitution. The course introduces these principles and the available tools to support the substitution of hazardous substances at workplaces.

Please note!

This is an on online course conducted through Zoom.

The price of the course consists of the course fee of EUR 350
and the day package of choice.

Day package I

This package includes:

  • conference facilities and technical equipment
  • course material
  • coffees, lunches
  • dinners and the social program on Tuesday.

We strongly encourage you to take part in the social program, as this is a vital part of the NIVA course experience. We believe in the power of networking (between people) and strive to create an inspiring possibility for that through the social program.

The total price of the course is EUR 760 (course fee EUR 350 + day package fee EUR 410).

EUR 410

Day package II

This package includes:

  • conference facilities and technical equipment
  • course material
  • coffees and lunches.

Kindly note that the day package II does not include dinners nor the social program.

The total price of the course is EUR 565 (course fee EUR 350 + day package fee EUR 215).

EUR 215

Accommodation

21st – 23rd of April 2020 at Hotel Scandic Paasi, Helsinki, Finland.

To book a room from the block kindly make the reservation through this link​ using the booking code “BNIV210420“.

The room price for a single standard room is EUR 128/night (including breakfast) and for a double room EUR 148/night (including breakfast).

The block reservation will be available as long as there are rooms available at the hotel.

EUR 128 – 148 / night

Course objectives

The overall goal of this course is to provide the participants with basic concepts and tools to support the substitution of hazardous substances at workplaces.


Subject background

Exposure to dangerous substances in the workplace continues to be a major safety and health issue despite comprehensive EU legislation that is designed to control and reduce occupational exposure to dangerous substances. The most effective way to reduce these risks from dangerous substances is elimination and substitution – removing the substance by changing the process or product in which it is used or replacing it with a less dangerous one. Substitution is a step-wise process – a complete risk assessment of the current substances and the substitutes – called ‘Alternative assessment’ – is a key step in the process.

The European Chemical Agents Directive (CAD) recommends following a hierarchy or ‘order of priority’ of control measures to prevent or reduce exposure to dangerous substances. A complete elimination is at the top, followed by this hierarchy: substitution, technological measures, organisational measures and personal protective equipment (STOP-Principle). Unfortunately, in practice personal protective equipment is the preferred strategy, substitution is often seen as too difficult.

Meanwhile a lot of guidance and tools have been developed and published for different sectors and  work tasks, for many substances and for different objectives and levels of difficulty (see the OECD-tool:  http://www.oecdsaatoolbox ). It is necessary to make these tools better known to the occupational safety and health community so that they can learn to select and apply the right tools for their purposes.


General Course fee and cancellation information

The course fee is invoiced after the registration deadline.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received by 7th of February 2021: full refund
Cancellations received by 8th of February 2020 or later: no refund

The price is subject to minor changes.


Contact person

Course leader

Lothar Lieck
EU-OSHA
email: lieck@osha.europa.eu

In practical matters, please contact:

Project and Communications Manager

Erika Lehtonen
NIVA
email: erika.lehtonen@niva.org

Course leader

Lothar Lieck

  • Senior Project Manager, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Spain

Course lecturers

Denis Mottet

Joel Tickner

Raluca Stepa

Christina Jönson

Pam Eliason

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