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ECHA tools

• REACH-IT: Online platform to submit data and dossiers (pre-registration, registration, C&L notification, authorisation) on chemicals.
• IUCLID: An application used to capture, store, maintain and exchange data on intrinsic and hazard properties of chemicals and can be used to fulfill data submission obligations of the Registration process under REACH.  
• CHEmical Safety Assessment and Reporting tool, Chesar: This IUCLID-based tool is used to carry out the chemical safety assessment (CSA) and prepare the chemical safety report (CSR). The information present in the ‘Guidance on Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment’ have been converted into this application.
• Workers and consumer exposure estimations provided by Chesar are calculated using the ECETOC Target Risk Assessment tool.
• Environmental exposure estimates provided by Chesar are based on the EUSES 2.1 fate model.

Environmental exposure assessment tools

• EUSES: Environmental risk assessment tool intended mainly for initial and refined risk assessment but also includes consumer exposure and the worker EASE model.
• CHARM: To assess releases from offshore platforms, the CHARM model can be an alternative to EUSES. This tool has been developed for screening level risk assessment of offshore substances such as drilling and production chemicals or completion/workover.

Worker exposure assessment tools

First tiered exposure assessment tools:

• ECETOC Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA): An assessment tool intended mainly for risk assessment for workers and consumer exposure but environmental exposure can be integrated.
• EMKG-Expo-Tool: An exposure assessment tool used for human health exposure in the workplace
• MEASE: this is an occupational exposure assessment tools for metals based on measured data from the metals industry.

Higher tiered exposure assessment tools:

• Advanced REACH Tool (ART): This tool is used for detailed exposure assessment which combines mechanistically modelled inhalation exposure predictions with available exposure data for different scenarios.
• Stoffenmanager exposure model: Used to prioritise and control risks of handling chemicals and chemical products in the workplaces.
• RISKOFDERM dermal model: this tool is focused on the assessment of dermal exposures in industrial and professional settings.

Consumer exposure assessment tools

• ConsExpo computer tool: this modelling software tool is used to determine consumer exposure to chemicals based on the different exposure routes.
• GExFRAME system: this estimates exposures to chemical substances from consumer products, together with a means to calculate consumer exposure to chemical substances.

Generic exposure scenario tools

• EOSCA Generic Exposure Scenario Tool (EGEST): This Excel-based tool allows a first pass screening assessment (Tier 0 and Tier 1) for inhalation, dermal and environmental exposure. It is designed for chemical suppliers, operators and other chemical users working with exploration and production chemicals in the North Sea.

Addressing information requirements

• JRC QSAR model database (QMDB): A tool used to predict measures of toxicity from physical characteristics of the structure of chemicals. A database has been developed to provide quality-reviewed information on QSAR models and their validity.
• OECD QSAR Tool box
• EPI Suite (Estimation Programs Interface): A screening-level tool comprised of physical/chemical properties and environmental fate estimation programs to predict physicochemical properties of a chemical.
• GREAT-ER  (Boeije et al. 2000; Schowanek et al. 2001; Wind 2004) and GEMCO (Generic Estuary Model for Contaminants; CEFIC LRI, 2004) can be used to estimate adsorption, degradation and volatilisation in the water compartment.
• FOCAS (Fate of Chemicals in Amended Soils) model: This model is used to predict the fate of consumer productsand other chemicals in soil based on amendments from sludge, compost, or irrigation water.
• ASTREAT (McAvoy, et al. 1999): A Windows executable tool used to quantify chemical pathways within wastewater treatment systems.

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