Hazardous Substance Control Bureau, Department of Industrial Works (DIW), Thailand disclosed a notification for decision tree, which descrived a new criteria on hazardous chemicals, depending upon ten characteristics of substances below;

1. สารที่สามารถระเบิดได้ (Explosive)

2. สารไวไฟ (Flammable substance)

3. สารออกซิไดซ์ (Oxidizing agent) หรือสารเปอร์ออกไซด์ (Peroxide)

4. สารมีพิษ (Toxic substance)

5. สารที่ทำให้เกิดการเปลี่ยนแปลงทางพันธุกรรม (Mutagen)

6. สารกัดกร่อน (Corrosive)

7. สารที่ทำให้เกิดการระคายเคือง (Irritant)

8. สารก่อมะเร็ง (Carcinogen)

9. สารที่เป็นพิษต่อระบบสืบพันธุ์ (Toxic to reproductive organ)

10. สารที่เป็นอันตรายต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม (Environmentally hazardous substance) 

Major objectives of the notification were;

• to track hazardous substances which did not include on the hazardous substance lists, issued by DIW  
  
  and
  
  
• to collect information for preparation of existing chemicals inventory in the future.
  
  
  There were some exemptions and threshold of annual volume etc.
  

The decision tree is available when clicking on   DIW haz5.6.pdf (0.09MB). Note that the document was written in Thai language.

Please get in touch with us when you have questions.

Hashimoto (Mr.)

e-mail:shinya_h@hstecheng.com

Mobile:+66915454896 (Japanese, English)

Mr. Hashimoto delivered a presentation entitled 'Regulatory Status on Hazardous Chemicals in Thailand and it's Countermeasures by Enterprizes' at Tokyo on July 30th. The seminar was organized by JOHO KIKO Co., Ltd.

More than 70 people attended the seminar and shared information.

SEMINAR JOHO July 30 201520150807.pdf (0.71MB)

A guide book on procedures of hazardous substances import to Thailand will be published soon at Tokyo. 

Readers of the book will clearly grasp the complicated procedures with plain English by experts in this field who live in Thailand.

HS-TECH was planner for this publishing project.

Mr. Hashimoto will deliver presentation entitled 'Prediction of Air Quality due to emission of greenhouse gases from an Automobile Industry’ with Mr. Sharad, a business partner for HS-TECH ENGINEERING and CEO of fluidyn, France at Session 4: Air Pollution & Odor Control for 3W EXPO 2015 in BITEC on January 30th.

3W Expo 2015, an International Exhibition on Water Treatment, Wastewater Treatment and Waste Treatment Technologies and Management during 29-31 January 2015 at Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Center (BITEC) in Bangkok, Thailand.

International Exhibition on Chemical & Process Engineering and Pollution Engineering will be held during 29-31 January 2015 at the same place.

You can check details of the conference in 3W EXPO at;

http://3w-expo.com/conference.html

Thailand governments (Pollution Control Department, Department of Industrial Works and Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been taking initiatives, called  'Pollutant Release, Transfer & Register (PRTR) Pilot Project' in Rayong Province, locates on the south eastern region of Thailand. 

Key components in this project are as follows;

• Develop calculation methods  to estimate amount of release and transfer of hazardous chemicals, designated by the Pilot Project [Completed].
  
  
• Submit data voluntarily to government by polluters who belong to industrial sectors,  based on the 'calculation methods' for each industrial categories [Ongoing]. 
  
  

• Grasp amount of release, transfer chemicals from various sectors including industry, house, hospital, vehicle etc [Ongoing].
  
  

           Example: Data Validation Meeting at  headquarters of Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT)

              http://www.jica.go.jp/project/english/thailand/013/news/general/140815.html

• Share information on chemicals with various stakeholders through RISK COMMUNICATION MEETINGS in Rayong area with facilitator and chemicals adviser who have specific knowledge on management of this kinds of meeting and chemicals [Ongoing].
  
  
• Build basic scheme (plan) on PRTR system to mitigate environmental impacts in Thailand, associated with chemicals by means of various policy mixture [Ongoing].
  
  
  

Contact;

If you want to know more details of PRTR, please conect with

• Shinya Hashimoto,

        Managing Director, HS-TECH ENGINEERING Co., Ltd.

        shinya_h@hstecheng.com

        TEL; 0915454896