Dangerous chemicals and materials

Type of study	Bachelor
Language of instruction	English
Code	040-0704/01
Abbreviation	DCHM
Course title	Dangerous chemicals and materials
Credits	4
Coordinating department	Department of Occupational and Process Safety
Course coordinator	Ing. Michaela Skřížovská, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic terms in chemical management
2. Chemical management
3. Physical hazards
4. Environmental hazards
5. Health hazards
6. Health risk assessment
7. Environmental risk assessment
8. Regulation CLP
9. Regulation REACH
10. Wastes and evaluation of hazardous properties waste
11. Safe transport of dangerous substances
12. Obtaining information about hazardous substance
13. Nanomaterials

E-learning

Study materials available on LMS Moodle VŠB-TUO.

Literature

REGULATION (EC) No 1272/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. In: Official Journal of the European Union, L 353/1.
REGULATION (EC) No 1907/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC, . In: Official Journal of the European Union, L 396/1.

Advised literature

Perry R.H.: Chemical Engineers handbook, 1973 by McGraw-Hill, Inc., ISBN 0-07-049478-9.
Guidance. ECHA European chemicals agency [online]. Helsinki [cit. 2019-11-28]. Available at: https://www.echa.europa.eu/cs/web/guest/support/guidance
Chesar. ECHA [online]. Helsinki: European Chemicals Agency, c2018 [cit. 2019-11-28]. Available at: https://chesar.echa.europa.eu/
Tools: Introduction. Ecetoc [online]. [cit. 2019-11-28]. Available at: http://www.ecetoc.org/tools/.

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