Safety & Technology
French, Italian and Russian translations of the ECSA
Guidance on Storage and Handling of Chlorinated Solvents are now
available.
The ECSA Guidance on Storage and
Handling exists since the Eighties of the last century and was
updated several times. This guidance is intended to help
distributors and users of chlorinated solvents to handle those
products safely and with care, thus protecting human health and
environment against possible negative impact.
Since the issue of the 3rd edition of this guidance, in 2000,
additional care has been taken to illustrate modern equipment in
surface and dry cleaning for a safe & sustainable use of
chlorinated solvents. In this 4th edition the storage part of this
guidance has been adapted with recommendations to the use of
state-of-the-art equipment.
Download the
ECSA Guidance on Storage and Handling document (pdf) in English, French, Italian, German or Russian.
Overview of modern equipment in surface and dry
cleaning here.
Guidance on Safe & Sustainable Use of Chlorinated
Solvents:
The European Chlorinated Solvent
Association (ECSA) has developed an online toolbox to provide users
of chlorinated solvents with information about the safe &
sustainable use of the products. Follow the link to the
ECSA Product
& Application Toolbox, a Guidance on Safe & Sustainable
Use of Chlorinated Solvents.
Safety & Quality Assessment System for Distributors
of Chlorinated Solvents:
ESAD (European Single Assessment
Document) is part of the SQAS (Safety & Quality Assessment
System) that is a system to evaluate the quality, safety, security
and environmental performance of Logistics Service Providers and
Chemical Distributors. ESAD enables chemical producing companies to
have the quality and safety management systems of their
distributors assessed in a uniform manner thus avoiding multiple
assessments by each individual chemical company. Assessment
results, established by an independent body, can be evaluated by
the individual chemical producing company and can be used in the
process of evaluating the safety, health and environmental
performance of distributors and in defining areas for improvement
with each of them (source: sqas.org).
Last update: 10/2012
