Chemical Safety is achieved by undertaking all activities involving chemicals in such a way as to ensure the safety of human health and the environment. It covers all chemicals, natural and manufactured, and the full range of exposure situations from the natural presence of chemicals in the environment to their extraction or synthesis, industrial production, transport use and disposal.
Chemical safety has many scientific and technical components. Among these are toxicology, ecotoxicology and the process of chemical risk assessment which requires a detailed knowledge of exposure and of biological effects.
WHO programmes and activities
Mechanisms of fibre carcinogenesis and assessment of chrysotile asbestos alternatives
- WHO Policy paper: mercury in health care
EHC 237 Principles for Evaluating Health Risks in Children
- Guidelines on the prevention of toxic exposures