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Evaluation
of an e-Learning Tool of REACH
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Commissioned by:
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German Federal Environment Agency (FKZ 360 12
016)
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Carried out by:
Heike Lüskow, Antonia Reihlen
Institute for Environmental Strategies, Germany
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Duration:
December 2006 - February 2007
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| Background |
| The new European chemicals policy REACH comes into force
in June 2007. This will replace the existing system of chemicals regulation
and it has consequences for all actors involved in industry and authorities.
Since 2006 Ökopol GmbH has been developing an e-Learning tool
in cooperation with two Danish partner organisations HSE consult and
DHI water & environment. This tool aims to train persons involved
with REACH with the technical content of REACH. |
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| Objectives and results |
| The e-Learning tool aims to make users familiar with
the vocabulary of REACH and to gain an understanding of the whole
system of this new regulation. Employees from companies learn to identify
their own roles so as to understand their legal responsibilities under
REACH. |
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| The project tests if the e-learning is suited to achieve
this objective and if the users feel that this instrument is useful
in helping them to understand the new requirements. This includes
asking the staff members from companies, especially from end users
of chemical substances and preparations, and from authorities if they
feel confident in using the REACH-vocabulary and in identifying their
roles and duties. |
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| The e-Learning tool is designed for users who have been
little engaged with REACH up to now. The additional modul "riskplatform"
is addressed to persons who have no background in chemicals risks,
toxicology and ecotoxicology. |
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Another aim is to find out which role new methods of
interactive and self dependent learning can play in companies and
authorities.
For this reason persons from different companies and authorities are
testing this tool. Experience and findings from the test will be discussed
with the participants in a workshop in February in order to get a
feedback on content and method of the e-learning tool. |
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| Contact |
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| Dirk Jepsen |
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