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Technical Review on Methodology of Generating Exposure Scenario in eSDS of EU REACH

유럽 신화학물질관리제도의 eSDS에 첨부되는 노출시나리오 작성법 개발 동향

  • Choe, Eun-Kyung (Eco-testing and Knowledge Service Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology) ;
  • Kim, Jong-Woon (Global Knowledge Research Center, KIST Europe, Universitaet des Saarlandes Campus) ;
  • Kim, Sang-Hun (Global Knowledge Research Center, KIST Europe, Universitaet des Saarlandes Campus) ;
  • Byun, Sung-Won (Eco-testing and Knowledge Service Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
  • Received : 2011.08.01
  • Accepted : 2011.10.10
  • Published : 2011.12.30
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Abstract

As one of the REACH obligations, the extended safety data sheet (eSDS) should be communicated within the supply chain under the REACH Regulation. Based on technical guidance documents published on the ECHAs website and survey of EU's recent REACH-related informations, this paper includes a study on details of how to develop exposure scenarios (ES) such as structure of ES, process of ES develpoment, standard workflows and key input data to develop ES with an introduction of eSDS concept. This paper also contains an overview on operational conditions (OCs) and risk management measures (RMMs) that are what to consider when building an ES. The structure of Chesar (Chemical Safety Assessment and Report tool) developed by European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is studied with a review of the available exposure estimation tools for workers, environment and consumers. Case example of generic exposure scenario (GES) for organic solvent is presented. To guide Korean EU-exporting companies, their participating roles in three steps of preparing ES are addressed.

2007년 6월 시행된 유럽 신(新)화학물질관리제도(REACH, Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of CHemicals)에서 물질 제조자가 공급망 상 제공해야 하는 법적 의무 사항인 확장된물질안전보건자료(eSDS, extended Safety Data Sheet)에 대하여, 본 총설에서는 eSDS의 개념 파악과 함께 노출시나리오(ES, Exposure Scenario) 작성 방법에 대한 유럽의 개발 동향을 기반으로 노출시나리오의 구성요소 및 각 구성요소별 주요 입력정보 그리고 단계별 노출시나리오 작성 방법을 알아보았다. 노출시나리오 작성에 필요한 정보로는 용도기술어 시스템(UDS, Use Descriptor System), 작업조건(OC, Operational Condition) 및 위해성관리대책(RMM, Risk Management Measure)이 조사되어 이에 대해 구체적인 이해를 도모하였다. 근로자, 환경, 소비자를 평가 대상으로 하는 기존의 주요 노출 평가 툴의 특징을 살펴보고, REACH 하의 노출시나리오 생성을 실행하기 위해 유럽화학물질청(ECHA, European Chemicals Agency)에서 최종 개발하여 발표한 노출 평가 툴인 Chesar (Chemical Safety Assessment and Report tool)의 구성을 알아보았다. EU 집행위에서 개발한 유기용매 분야의 일반 노출시나리오 (GES, Generic Exposure Scenario) 사례를 소개하였고, 3단계로 구분할 수 있는 노출시나리오 작성 과정 중에서 국내 수출 중소기업에서 담당할 부분 및 활용 방안을 제시하였다.

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