Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

k) Enforcement
Enforcing this very wide-ranging new system presents 
new challenges to regulators across Europe. REACH 
places new duties on a range of different businesses. 
Mostly, the new duties will be on manufacturers and 
importers of chemicals, but there are also requirements 
for downstream users of chemicals to share information 
with their suppliers. Although HSE will play a key role in 
enforcing REACH, both as the UK Competent Authority 
and more generally as the UK occupational health and 
safety regulator, enforcing REACH will fall to a number 
of regulatory bodies. HSE are working closely with other 
regulators to support Defra in setting up the framework 
for enforcing REACH in the UK. Defra planned a consult 
on enforcement arrangements for REACH in early 2007.
17.6.8 References
Chemical (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) 
Regulations 2002, SI No 2002, 1689, The Stationery 
Offi ce
Chemical (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) 
(Amendment) Regulations 2005, SI No 2005, 2571, The 
Stationery Offi ce
Chip for Everyone HSG 228, HSE Books 2002
ISBN 07176 2370 X
Approved classifi cation and labeling guide (fi fth edition) 
L131, HSE Books, 2002
ISBN 07176 2369 6
Approved Supply List. Information approved for the 
classifi 
cation and labeling of dangerous substances 
and preparations for supply (seventh edition) L129, HSE 
Books 2002
ISBN 07176 2368 8
Read the label INDG 352, HSE Books 2002
ISBN 07176 2366 1
Why do I need a safety data sheet? INDG 353 HSE 
Books 2002
ISBN 07176 2367 X
The Idiot’s guide to CHIP INDG 350 HSE Books 2002
The compilation of safety data sheets. Approved Code 
of Practice (third edition) L130 HSE Books 2002
ISBN 07176 2371 8
HSE’s CHIP website:www.hse.gov.uk/hthdir/noframes/
chip/chip0.htm