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Republic Act No. 6969 Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act. Te, Vance Aaron C. SEMFILA EA2. Types of Hazard Symbols. General Caution sign. Types of Hazard Symbols. Warning sign. Types of Hazard Symbols. Toxic sign. Types of Hazard Symbols.
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Republic Act No. 6969Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act Te, Vance Aaron C. SEMFILA EA2
Types of Hazard Symbols General Caution sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Warning sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Toxic sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Ionizing Radiation sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Non-ionizing Radiation sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Radiation danger – high level sources sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Biohazard sign
Types of Hazard Symbols High Voltage sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Chemical Weapon sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Lazard Hazard sign
Types of Hazard Symbols Chemical Hazard sign
NFPA 704 (National Fire Protection Association) • Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response
Republic Act No. 6969 • Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress • Approved October 26, 1990 • Ramon V. Mitra – Speaker of the House of Representatives • Jovito R. Salongs – President of the Senate • Corazon C. Aquino – President of the Philippines
Republic Act No. 6969 • Department of Environment and Natural Resources • The implementing agency and assisted by the Inter-Agency Advisory Council • Provides for the regulation of all chemical substances that may pose threat to public health and the environment
Subject • An Act to Control Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof, and for other Purposes
Purpose • Control of Toxic Substances and Hazardous Nuclear Waste
Section 1. Short Title • Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act of 1990
Section 2. Declaration of Policy • Policy of the State to regulate, restrict or prohibit • The importation, manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures that present unreasonable risk and/or injury to health or the environment • To prohibit entry (even transit) of hazardous and nuclear wastes and their disposal into Philippine territorial limits
Section 2. Declaration of Policy • To provide advancement and facilitate research and studies on toxic chemicals
Section 3. Scope • Cover the importation, manufacture, processing, handling, storage, transportation, sale, distribution, use and disposal of all unregulated chemical substances and mixtures in the Philippines
Section 4. Objectives • To keep an inventory of chemicals that are presently being imported, manufactured, or used • Their existing and possible uses, test data, names of firms manufacturing or using them • To monitor or regulate the importation, manufacture, processing, handling, storage, transportation, sale, distribution, use and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures
Section 4. Objectives • To inform and educate regarding the hazards and risks • Manufacture, handling, storage, transportation, processing, distribution, use and disposal • To prevent the entry, even in transit, as well as the keeping or storage and disposal of hazardous and nuclear wastes into the country
Section 5. Definition • Chemical Substances • Any organic or inorganic substance of a particular molecular identity • Any combination of such substances occurring in whole or in part as a result of chemical reaction or occurring in nature • Any element or uncombined chemical
Section 5. Definition • Chemical Mixtures • Any combination of two or more chemical substances if the combination does not occur in nature • Include non-biodegradable mixtures • Process • Preparation of a chemical substance or mixture after its manufacture for commercial distribution
Section 5. Definition • Importation • The entry of a products or substances into the Philippines (seaports or airports) after having been properly cleared through or still remaining under customs control • Manufacture • Mechanical or chemical transformation of substances into new products • By power-driven machines, by hand • Done in factory or home
Section 5. Definition • Unreasonable risk • Expected frequency of undesirable effects or adverse arising from a given exposure to a substance
Section 5. Definition • Hazardous substances are substances which present either • Short-term hazards • Acute toxicity by ingestion, inhalation or skin absorption, corrosivity or other skin or eye contact hazard, risk of fire or explosion • Long-term hazards • Chronic toxicity, carcinogenicity, resistance to detoxification process, potential to pollute underground or surface waters
Section 5. Definition • Hazardous wastes • substances that are without any safe commercial, industrial, agricultural or economic usage and are shipped, transported or brought from the country of origin for dumping or disposal • also refer to by-products, side-products, process residues, spent reaction media, contaminated plant or equipment or other substances
Section 5. Definition • Nuclear Wastes • Hazardous wastes made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incidental to the production or utilization of nuclear fuels
Section 6. Functions, Power and Responsibilities • The Department of Environment and Natural Resources – implementing agency • To keep an updated inventory of chemicals that are presently being manufactured or used • To require chemical substances and mixtures that present unreasonable risk or injury to health or to the environment to be tested before they are manufactured or imported for the first time
Section 6. Functions, Power and Responsibilities • To require chemical substances and mixtures presently being manufactured or processed to be tested if they pose unreasonable risk or injury • To evaluate the characteristics of chemicals that have been tested to determine their toxicity and the extent of their effects • To enter into contracts and make grants for research, development, and monitoring of chemical substances and mixtures
Section 6. Functions, Power and Responsibilities • To conduct inspection of any establishment in which chemicals are manufactured, processed, stored or held • To confiscate or impound chemicals found not falling within said acts • To monitor and prevent the entry, even in transit, of hazardous and nuclear wastes and their disposal into the country
Section 6. Functions, Power and Responsibilities • To document and to require other information if necessary to carry out the provisions • To call on any department, bureau, office, agency, state university or college, and other instrumentalities of the Government for assistance • To disseminate information and conduct educational awareness campaigns
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Ramon J.P. Paje Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources Chairman
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Dr. Enrique T. Ona Secretary of Health Member
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Gregory L. Domingo Secretary of Trade and Industry Member
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Mario G. Montejo Secretary of Science and Technology Member
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Voltaire Gazmin Secretary of National Defense Member
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Albert del Rosario Secretary of Foreign Affairs Member
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz Secretary of Labor and Employment Member
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council Cesar V. Purisima Secretary of Finance Member
Section 7. Inter-agency Technical Advisory Council ProcesoAlcala Secretary of Agriculture Member
Section 8. Pre-Manufacture and Pre-Importation Requirements • Submit the following Information to DENR • The name of the chemical substance or mixture • Its chemical identity and molecular structure • Proposed categories of use • Estimate of the amount to be manufactured, processed or imported • Processing and disposal • Test data related to health and environmental effects
Section 9. Chemicals Subject to Testing • There is a reason to believe that the chemical substances or mixture may present an unreasonable risk to health or the environment • There are insufficient data and experience for determining or predicting the health and environmental effects • The testing of the chemical substance or mixture is necessary to develop such data
Section 9. Chemicals Subject to Testing • The manufacturers, processors or importers shall shoulder the costs of testing
Section 10. Action by the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources of his Duly Authorized Representative • The Secretary or his duly authorized representative • Within 90 days from the date of filing of the notice of manufacture, processing or importation • To decide whether or not to regulate or prohibit its importation, manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use or disposal • May extend the 90 days for justifiable reasons within a reasonable time
Section 11. Chemical Substances Exempt from Pre-Manufacture Notification • Those included in the categories already listed in the inventory of existing chemicals • Those to be produced in small quantities solely for experimental or research and developmental purposes • Chemical substances and mixtures that will not present an unreasonable risk • Chemical substances and mixtures that exist temporarily and which have no human or environmental exposure • Result of chemical reaction in the manufacture or processing of a mixture of another chemical substance