The A to Z Guide to NICNAS

 

A

• About NICNAS

• Act - the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989

• Additives

• Adhesives and sealants

• AICS online

• Alerts

• Amendments to the Act

• Annual Registration Fee for importers and/or manufacturers

• Annual Reports NICNAS

• Approved Foreign Scheme

• Asbestos

• Assessment Reports

• Audited self-assessment for synthetic Polymers of Low Concern (PLC)

• Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances (AICS)

• Australia - Canada Bilateral Arrangement

• Australia - United States Bilateral Agreement

B

• Biological material

• Building/construction supplies

C

• Calculation of fees

• Canada

• Candidate list of chemicals for assessment

• Cement

• Certificates

• Certified Agreements

• Children's cosmetics, compliance

• Cleaning/household products

• Chemical Gazette

• Classifications

• Commercial Evaluation Category (CEC)

• Community Engagement Forum (CEF)

• Compliance

• Company Registration

• Confidential Listing of Chemicals on AICS

• Conventions and Treaties

• Cosmetics and toiletries

D

• Definition of 'industrial chemical'

• Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Resources (DEWHA)

• (the former) Department of Environment and Water Resources (DEW) now Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Resources (DEWHA)

• Department of Health & Ageing (DoHA)

E

• Early Introduction Permits (EIP)

• Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

• Electronic template for Notifiers

• Existing Chemicals Assessments

• Existing Chemical Info Sheets

• Existing Chemicals Program

• Exporters

• Environmental Risk Management Agency (ERMA) New Zealand

• 'Excluded use'

• Exemptions

• Exposure Assessment

F

• FAQs

• Fees and charges

• Food Standards Australia/New Zealand

• Formaldehyde

• Forms

• Full Risk Assessments

• Funding of NICNAS

G

• Gene Technology Regulator, Office of

H

• Handbook for Notifiers

• Hazardous Chemicals

• Hazard Assessment

• Health

• Hotline

I

• Importers

• Incidentally-Produced Chemicals

• Industrial Chemical - definition

• Industry compliance

• Industry Government Consultative Committee (IGCC)

• Inks in pens/biros

• International Assessment Programs (IPCS/CICADS; OECD-SIDS)

• Introducers of industrial chemicals

J-K-L

• Lead

• Legislative framework

• Levels of Registration

• List of Company Registrants

• Low Regulatory Concern Chemicals (LRCC)

• Low Volume Chemicals (LVC)

• Limited Notification

M

• Manufacturers of industrial chemicals

• Material Safety Data sheets

• Mechanical processes

• Media releases

• Medical related purposes

• Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with states and territories

• Methylene Chloride Alert

N

• Nanotechnology

• National Occupational Health and Safety Commission
  (now ASCC)

• Naturally occurring chemical

• New Chemicals Assessments

• New Chemicals Program

• Newsletter

• NICNAS Matters

• NICNAS Registration

• Non-confidential listing of chemicals on AICS

• Non-hazardous chemicals

• Non-stick cookware

• Notifiers

O

• OECD Existing Chemicals Task Force

• OECD New Chemicals Task Force

• OECD SIDS Program

• Office of Chemical Safety (OCS)

• Online services (Online Action Plan)

• Organisational Structure, NICNAS (PDF)

P-Q

• Paints

• Paint stripping

• PEC Assessment Reports

• Permits

• Pesticides

• Petroleum and mineral products

• Pharmaceutical and Healthcare products

• Phthalates

• Pigments and dyes

• Plastics and resins

• Polymers of Low Concern

• Printing and Inks

• Prior Informed Consent (PIC)

• Printer cartridges

• Proscribed chemicals

• Publications

R

• Register of

• Reform initiatives

• Regulation of industrial chemicals

• Regulatory framework for NICNAS

• Relevant Industrial Chemicals

• Research, Development or Analytical (RD&A) chemicals

• Review of Existing Chemicals Program

• Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

S

• Safety Information Sheets

• Science Forum

• Screening Assessments

• Secondary Notification Assessments

• Service Charter (NICNAS)

• Small business obligations

• Small Volumes Notification

• Standard Notification

• Stockholm Convention of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Treaty

T

• Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)

• Toners, inks

• Training, Industry Awareness

• Treaties

U-V

• United States Environmental Protection Agency / Cooperation Program

W

• Who we are

• What we do

• What's new

X-Y-Z