Proposed Regional GHS Implementation Strategy for ASEAN

1. Proposed Regional GHS Implementation Strategy for ASEAN Mazlin Bin Mokhtar & Goh Choo Ta Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) 43600 UKM BANGI, Selangor, Malaysia Email: mazlin@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my, gohchoota@yahoo.com

2. Scope of Implementation Strategy: • Goal • Objectives • Anticipated Scenario • Proposed Regional GHS Implementation Roadmap

3. 1. Goal • To establish an ASEAN Regional GHS Implementation Roadmap through multi-stakeholder consensus involving collaboration, networking, synergetic efforts, expertise and information sharing at national and regional levels, as well as international level through ASEAN external relations.

4. 2. Objectives Overall Objective • To facilitate ASEAN member countries to implement GHS by year 2008, including supporting activities for capacity building. Immediate Objectives • To agree on appropriate activities for GHS implementation at national and regional levels by incorporating the needs of the Vientiane Action Programme (VAP) or other relevant programmes in ASEAN. • To identify the role of key stakeholders and propose timeline for each activity.

5. 2. Objectives (cont) Immediate Objectives (cont) • To facilitate GHS implementation within ASEAN member countries and also ASEAN partnerships (11 countries). • To strengthen national, regional and international cooperation and collaboration in GHS implementation. • To integrateGHS elements into existing workplans and budgets, and consider possible requirements for additional resource mobilization if required.

6. 3. Anticipated Scenario GHS Implementation at Regional Level • Regional GHS Implementation Roadmap is agreed and implemented. • ASEAN-OSHNET Guidelines on Chemical Classification, Labelling and Safety Data Sheet is agreed and adopted by ASEAN member countries. • GHS elements are incorporated into the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Programme. • ASEAN Protocol 9 (transport) is amended by incorporating appropriate elements from several international technical documents that are in-line with GHS.

7. 3. Anticipated Scenario (cont) GHS Implementation at Regional Level (cont) • Capacity across the four key sectors, i.e. industrial workplace, agriculture, transport and consumer products in the region in terms of GHS implementation is enhanced through multi-stakeholder approach. • A committee/working group for consumer products in ASEAN is established. • ASEAN Steering Committee on the GHS (ASCGHS) is established, if feasible. • ASEAN Group of Resource Persons on the GHS (AGRPGHS) is established, if feasible.

8. 3. Anticipated Scenario (cont) GHS Implementation at Regional Level (cont) • Harmonise Building Block Approach (BBA) among the ASEAN member countries • Transitional period for GHS implementation is identified. • Incentives for coordinated implementation of GHS among ASEAN member countries are identified. • Issues on mechanism of Confidential Business Information (CBI) have been identified and discussed.

9. 3. Anticipated Scenario (cont) GHS Implementation at National Level • All the ASEAN member countries have established a National Coordinating Committee on the GHS Implementation (NCCGHS). • Develop a multilingual (e.g. English and national language) website that consists of GHS implementation status across the four key sectors and other GHS related information. • Harmonise Building Block Approach (BBA) across the four sectors • National GHS Implementation Strategy is established and implemented.

10. 4. Proposed Regional GHS Implementation Roadmap There are two sections for the Proposed Regional GHS Implementation Roadmap: Section A: GHS Implementation at ASEAN regional level according to sector: (A1) Industrial Workplace; (A2) Agriculture; (A3) Transport; and (A4) Consumer Products. Section B:Cross-sectoral GHS Implementation issues at ASEAN regional level

11. Section A1: GHS Implementation at ASEAN Regional Level: Industrial Workplace

12. Section A1: GHS Implementation at ASEAN Regional Level: Industrial Workplace (cont)

13. Section A2: GHS Implementation at ASEAN Regional Level: Agriculture

14. Section A2: GHS Implementation at ASEAN Regional Level: Agriculture (cont)

15. Section A3: GHS Implementation at ASEAN Regional Level: Transport

16. Section A4: GHS Implementation at ASEAN Regional Level: Consumer Products MRAs

17. Section A4: GHS Implementation at ASEAN Regional Level: Consumer Products (cont)

18. Section B: Cross-sectoral GHS Implementation issues at ASEAN regional level Relevant ASEAN Senior Officials Meetings and Ministerial Meetings ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) GHS Implementation at the ASEAN Regional Level Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM) ASEAN GHS Implementation Strategy and Roadmap AMEICC Secretariat ASEAN Steering Committee on the GHS (ASCGHS)* ASEAN Group of Resource Persons on the GHS (AGRPGHS)* ASEAN Secretariat: Bureau for Economic Integration National Group of Resource Persons on the GHS (NGRPGHS) Ten (10) National GHS Implementation Strategies Ten (10) National Coordinating Committees on the GHS Implementation (NCCGHS) GHS Implementation at the National Level GHS Committee on Industrial Workplace (GHSCIW) GHS Committee on Agriculture (GHSCA) GHS Committee on Transport (GHSCT) GHS Committee on Consumer Products (GHSCCP) (* Proposed new structures/bodies)

19. Section B: Cross-sectoral GHS Implementation issues at ASEAN regional level Example

20. Section B: Cross-sectoral GHS Implementation issues at ASEAN regional level (cont)

21. NZ-GHS Case Study as a potential model for ASEAN to scrutinize, adopt and adapt? Agencies involved: • Environment Risk Management Authority (ERMA) New Zealand • Ministry of Environment • Department of Labour • Transport agencies • Local government Existing Regulations and Act: • Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act 1996 • Hazardous Substances (Minimum Degrees of Hazard) Regulations2001 • Hazardous Substances (Classification) Regulations2001 • Hazardous Substances (Classes 1 to 5 Controls) Regulations 2001 • Hazardous Substances (Classes 6, 8, and 9 Controls) Regulations 2001 • Hazardous Substances (Identification) Regulations 2001 • Hazardous Substances (Packaging) Regulations 2001 • Hazardous Substances (Tracking) Regulations 2001 • Hazardous Substances (Disposal) Regulations 2001 • Hazardous Substances (Emergency Management) Regulations 2001

22. Group Standards (an approval under HSNO for groups of hazardous substances of a similar nature, or type or having similar circumstances of use): • Additives, Process Chemicals and Raw Materials • Aerosols • Animal Nutrition and Animal Care Products • Class 4 Substances • Class 5.1.1 Oxidising Substances and Class 5.2 Organic Peroxides • Cleaning Products • Compressed Gas Mixtures • Construction Products • Corrosion Inhibitors • Cosmetics • Denatured Ethanol • Dental Products • Embalming Products • Fertilisers • Fire Fighting Chemicals • Food Additives and Fragrance Materials • Fuel Additives • Laboratory Chemicals and Reagent Kids • Leather and Textiles • Lubricants • Metal Industry Products • N.O.S. (Not Otherwise Specified) Substances • Photographic Chemicals • Polymers • Refining Catalysts • Solvents • Surface Coatings and Colourants • Water Treatment Chemicals

23. Terima Kasih Thank You

24. Building Block Approach From GHS purple Book, First Revised Version 2005: ‘Countries are free to determine which of the building blocks will be applied in different parts of their systems. However, where a system covers something that is in the GHS, and implements the GHS, that coverage should be consistent.’ Information from the Report of the 12th Session of the UNSCEGHS (Geneva, 12-14 December 2006) (a) Hazard classes are building blocks (b) Within a hazard class, each hazard category can be seen as a building block BACK

25. Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) • MRAs are agreements between two or more countries to mutually recognize or accept some or all aspects of one another’s country conformity assessment results. • Advantages of MRAs are such as reduced costs, greater certainty for market access, increase competition and freer flow of trade. It is anticipated that adoption of GHS could streamline or simplify mechanism for the MRAs where GHS is a globally recognized standards. BACK

26. Proposed selected ministerial bodies, senior officials meetings and working groups that can bring up GHS as an agenda item • Labour: • ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting (ALMM) • ASEAN Senior Labour Officials Meeting (SLOM) • Agriculture: • ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) • Senior Officials Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (SOM-AMAF) • ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Crops • ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Agriculture Cooperatives • ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Agriculture Training and Extension • ASEAN Technical Working Group on Research and Development • ASEAN Network for Pesticide Regulatory Authorities • Transport: • ASEAN Transport Ministers Meeting (ATM) • ASEAN Senior Transport Officials Meeting (STOM) • Transport Facilitation Working Group • Air Transport Working Group • Land Transport Working Group • Maritime Transport Working Group

27. Standards: • ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting (AEM) • ASEAN Consultative Committee on Standards and Quality (ACCSQ) • Working Group on Standards and Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAS) • Working Group Accreditation and Conformity Assessment • ASEAN Cosmetic Committee (ACC) • Pharmaceutical Product Working Group (PPWG) • Traditional Medicines and Health Supplements Product Working Group (TMHSPWG) • Wood-Based Product Working Group (WBPWG) • Rubber-Based Product Working Group (RBPWG) • Customs: • ASEAN Finance Ministers Meetings (AFMM) • Meeting of the ASEAN Directors-General of Customs • Meeting of the ASEAN Experts Committee on Customs Matters (ECCM) • Meeting of the ASEAN Customs Directors on Information and Communication Technology (ACDICT) • Meeting of the ASEAN Customs Directors on Enforcement and Mutual Assistant (ACDEMA) • Meeting of the ASEAN Coordinators of Customs Training Centre (ACCTC) • ASEAN Customs Procedures and Facilitators Working Group

28. Environment • ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment (AMME) • ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment (ASOEN) • ASEAN Working Group on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (AWGMEA) • ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME) • ASEAN Working Group on Water Resources Management (AWGWRM) • ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC) BACK