Providing public information on chemical safety

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends increasing public awareness of problems of chemical safety by directing information campaigns such as programmes providing information about chemical stockpiles, environmentally safer alternatives and emission inventories that could also be a tool for risk reduction to the general public.

1. Safeguarding employee health
2. Improving information systems on toxic chemicals
3. Communicating safety information

1. Supporting regional transfer of chemical safety information
2. Developing public information guidelines on chemical risks
3. Developing chemical safety performance indicators
4. Addressing year 2000 problem for chemical safety

1. Providing public access to environmental information
2. Involving local communities in pollution control
3. Controlling chemicals

1. Assessing chemical risks
2. Adopting community right-to-know programmes on chemical risk based on international guidelines

1. Concealing environmental information

1. Ending environmental secrecy

1. Safety
2. Misinformation
3. Information
4. Disinformation
5. Deformation