Main description:

Risk Management of Complex Inorganic Materials: A Practical Guide facilitates the risk assessment and management of complex inorganic materials around the world by providing accessible and specific guidance on their assessment. Inorganic complex materials, such as ores and concentrates, metal containing- glasses, ceramic and inorganic pigments, alloys, and UVCBs produced during the manufacturing of metals present specificities not addressed by most guidance documents. This book explains the main characteristics of inorganic complex materials affecting their hazard and risk assessment and management, including their source and main uses, also covering hazard and exposure assessment, risk characterization and risk management.

It is an essential reference for regulators involved in risk assessment and risk management, industry experts charged of compliance with chemical management program requirements, consultants preparing chemicals management files for companies and regulators, and academics involved in research on complex inorganic materials.

Contents:

1. General introduction
2. Exposure to inorganic complex materials
3. Principles of risk management
4. Main characteristics of relevance for the assessment of complex inorganic materials
5. Data needs, availability, sources and reliability
6. Ecotoxicity assessment of complex inorganic materials
7. Toxicity assessment of complex inorganic materials
8. Ores and concentrates
9. Exposure to UVCBs during manufacturing (recycling) of metals
10. Ceramics and Inorganic pigments (manufacturing and use)
11. Alloys (manufacturing, use, end of life)
12. Specific methodologies/tools to support assessment