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ChemCon Conference Madrid – Wrap up

Madzunya, Samuel — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:14:00 GMT

After an extremely informative and content-rich week, Day 5 needed to promise something new...and it delivered. The focus of the day was the forward outlook, and included discussions on new developments in sustainability efforts, a short diversion into supply chain and the day—and the week—finishe ... (More)

ChemCon Madrid 2012 - Day 3

Madzunya, Samuel — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:24:00 GMT

Charles Chaplin said “Simplicity is not a simple thing” and that is definitely true for GHS harmonized classification. Dr. Caroline Li of BASF started the day with a GHS introduction of the Asia pacific countries where a few countries have already implemented (China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, ... (More)

ChemCon Madrid 2012 - Day 2

Madzunya, Samuel — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:47:00 GMT

Tuesday, March 6th was a busy day. This was the first official day of the ChemCon conference in Madrid. During the morning sessions, the speakers covered topics such as Registrations, Authorizations and Restrictions, while the afternoon was dedicated to North and South America. All zones were cove ... (More)

ChemCon Madrid 2012 - Day 1

Madzunya, Samuel — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:46:00 GMT

Blue sky, sun already set high. Madrid, one of the finest hotels in the city. Crowd starts to gather in the nice conference room with high ceilings. The scene is set. This first day of ChemCon starts with the usual greetings of colleagues and friends from all over the world, who haven't seen ... (More)

Accenture to present APAS solutions at ChemCon 2012

Madzunya, Samuel — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:05:00 GMT

The ChemCon 2012 edition will take place in Madrid March 5 – 9, bringing together more than 250 experts to focus on international chemical legislation including REACH, GHS and country-specific information on inventories and labelling requirements. This year will see the entry of Accenture on th ... (More)

Getting richer with REACH

Madzunya, Samuel — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:10:00 GMT

With the end of the year comes the season of budgets of all kind; whether these are private as your Christmas shopping budget, or the money spent on projects we have to report. REACH activities are no exception, even if it is usual to hear that Compliance is a mandatory cost whatever the amount is ... (More)

Addressing the challenges of product stewardship for new product introduction

Madzunya, Samuel — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:18:00 GMT

Over the past decade, growth in complexity and geographic applicability of the product stewardship regulatory environment has increased dramatically and is expected to keep increasing over the coming years. REACH-inspired/modeled substance inventory law updates represent a major challenge to the e ... (More)

Environment, Health and Safety diagnosis in New Caledonia for a global mining company

Madzunya, Samuel — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:02:00 GMT

Tokyo Airport 19.11.11 in between flights on our way back to France after one week of EHS audit for a giant global Mining company located ‘at the edge of world. This is my last REACH blog post for Accenture. As of December 1st will be back to the Industry side of the house posting on EHS and ... (More)

Safety first. Building a sustainable safety culture.

Madzunya, Samuel — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:55:00 GMT

At the regulatory level, compliance with proscriptive Environment Health & Safety (EH&S) legislations is now often critical to market access in many countries. But the importance of EH&S is even more far-reaching. Reports show a clear link between the effective management of opera ... (More)

Chemcon discusses the status of the chemical control legislation in the Northern, Middle and South Americas

Piñon, Eugenio I. — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:35:00 GMT

Day 5: July 1 The morning session’s last day of the Chemcon conference gave an overview of the status of chemical control legislation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) region and Middle and South America. Overall, for these regions, chemical legislation schemes are more often ... (More)