Learning Outcomes
After completing this eLearning course, you will be able to:
MODULE 01 - Registration & Obligations
- Understand the objectives, roles and principles of REACH registration
- Determine what needs to be registered
- Exemptions
- Types of substance (mono, multi, reaction mass, UVCB, polymer)
- Types of registration (full intermediate, PPORD)
- Tonnage calculations
- Gain a broad appreciation of the inquiry, joint and lead registration process, including the role of SIEFs
MODULE 02 - Substance Characterisation & Sameness
- Understand the importance of substance identity and sameness
- Broadly identify the key parameters needed to demonstrate substance identity
- Recognise analytical characterisation process and its application in demonstrating sameness
- Describe how to approach designing an analytical strategy
- List common types of analytical techniques and where they are applicable
- Explain the characterisation of well-defined and complex substances and the additional tests required for nanomaterials
- Recall the importance of experimental documentation
- Summarise how to assess sameness and what to do if sameness cannot be
demonstrated
MODULE 03 - Lead Registration - The Process
- Have a clear understanding of the overall process and the various activities involved
- Be aware of the potential timescales and costs required for your tonnage band
- Understand the dossier preparation and submission process
- Appreciate the ongoing obligations of the Lead Registrant.
MODULE 04a - Lead Registration - Hazard Assessment
- Understand the process of conducting a DGA and ITS for the purpose of REACH
- Understand how endpoints can be fulfilled
- Broadly identify approaches to use for adaptation of endpoint testing
MODULE 04b - Lead Registration - Chemical Safety Report
- Identify when a Chemical Safety Report is needed
- Identify all the uses of a substance in its lifecycle
- Be aware of the tools available to measure or estimate exposure and risk
- Assess appropriate risk management measures
- Explain your communication obligations to your customers
MODULE 05 - Joint Registration
- Outline the Joint Registration process
- Understand the information requirements for Joint Registration
- Appreciate the potential costs and timescales
- Establish a registration strategy for your substance portfolio
- Determine your ongoing obligations following registration
MODULE 06 - Data Sharing
- Appreciate the objectives, roles and principles of REACH data sharing
- Understand the fair, transparent and non-discriminatory objectives of data
sharing in order to reduce costs and unnecessary testing - Understand the legal rights of joint registrants with regards to data sharing
- Know what to do in the event of a data sharing dispute and how this may be used to your benefit
MODULE 07 - Dossier & Substance Evaluation
- Understand the process of dossier and substance evaluation
- Understand the different outcomes of the evaluation process
- Have a broad appreciation of the business impact of evaluation
MODULE 08 - Regulatory Risk Management for Substances of Concern
- Understand how regulators identify substances with suspected properties of concern
- Be aware of the tools at the disposal of regulators to confirm these suspected properties
- Recall what options are open to the regulators for further risk management of these substances
- Understand what each of these measures entails in practice (SVHC obligations, authorisation, restriction)
- Be aware of the business impact these extra measures can have on industry
- Recognise the options available to industry to be forewarned about these potential extra measures
MODULE 09 - Introduction to Authorisation
- Identify which uses of which substances require or are at risk of requiring authorisation
- Know which tasks are required when during the authorisation process
- Assess whether you need to apply or can you depend on others
- Identify the potential impacts to your business
- Estimate how much authorisation might cost
- Help with your supplier's application
MODULE 10 - Applying for Authorisation
- Identify which route will need to be taken for authorisation
- Initiate an Analysis of Alternatives
- Contribute a socio-economic analysis
- Plan a substitution strategy
- Recruit a project team