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RISK ASSESSMENT and MANAGEMENT IN CHEMICAL

INDUSTRY IN VIETNAM

Bangkok, November, 2012

Nguyen Xuan Sinh Vietnam Chemicals Agency

Ministry of Industry and Trade of Vietnam

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Contents

Overview of Vietnam chemical industry 1

Vietnam Law on Chemicals 2

Chemical management and implementation of Chemical Law in Vietnam 3

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Overview of Vietnam chemical industry

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Overview of Vietnam Chemical Industry

Chemical Industry

Industrial Gases

Plant protection chemical

Detergents

Paints and printing inks

Petrochemicals

Chemical Powers

Fertilizer

Basic chemicals Pharmaceuticals

Rubbers Products

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No Product Group Enterprises Total capacity To meet the demand 1 Fertilizer 69 7.590.000ton/year 78% 2 Plant protection chemical 93 60.000 ton/year 15% 3 Petrochemicals 11 1.013.000 ton/year raw materials imports to 90% 4 Basic chemicals 25 1.836.000 ton/year import 100% of soda, sulfur 5 Chemical Powers 26 20.000.000kWh

6 Industrial Gases 41 68.000 m3/h acetylene and rare gases are still imported

7 Rubbers Products 154 895.000 ton/year 70-75%

8 Detergents 103 800.000 ton/year meet the demand in the domestic market

9 Paints and printing inks 143 300.000 ton/year 70% 10 Pharmaceutical chemicals 6 500 ton/year > 90% is imported

Total (to the end of 2010) 671

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Up to 2012 Up to 2020

Average Annual Growth Rate 14% 15 – 16%

Sector Contribution

- Around 10% Industrial Production Value - 10% Industrial Labor Force

10.8% Industrial Production Value

P r i o r i t y s u b -sectors

- Agrochemicals (fertilizers, Pesticides) - Petrochemicals


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Vietnamese Law on Chemicals

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Date of issue: the law was passed on November 21, 2007, by the XII National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at it 2nd session.

v Composition : 10 Chapters, 71 Articles v  Special Attentions

- Chapter I: General provisions; - Chapters II –VII: Specific provisions stipulating chemicals activities & chemical - related activities; - Chapter IX: State administration on chemical activities and others

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I

1. Applicable Legislation; 2. Definitions of Terminology; 3. Governing Principles; 4. Government policy on chemical activities; 5. Prohibited activities.

II - VII 1. Development planning; 2. Production and trade of chemicals; 3. Classification, labeling, packaging and MSDS of chemicals; 4. Use of chemicals; 5. Prevention and mitigation of chemical accidents; 6. Declaration, registration and notification of chemicals, in particular.

VIII &IX

1. Environment protection and community safety; 2. State administration on chemical activities; 3. State Agency; 4. Specialized inspection on chemical activities; 5. Penalization of violations under the law; 6. Settlement of disputes; 7. Implementation of the Law.

Content of Chapters

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Chemical management and implementation of Chemical Law

in Vietnam

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Chemical Management and implementation of Chemicals Law in Vietnam

v CHEMICAL CONTROL LEGISLATION(National Level) : Environmental Protection Law Health Care Law Safety Code for production, use, storage and transportation of

dangerous chemicals Narcotics (drug, heroin) Prevention Law Radiation Safety Law Ordinance on Plant Protection Prime Minister’s Decision on Controlling Petrol, oil and LPG Food Safety Law.

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Decree from the Government v Decree No. 108/2008/ND-CP dated October 2008 on “Detailed regulation and guideline of implementation of several articles in Law of chemicals” Decree No.90/2009/ND-CP dated October 20th, 2009 on administrative punishment of chemical activity. v Decree No.26/2011/ND-CP dated April, 8 th, 2011 on “Repair some articles of Degree No.108/NĐ-CP on guideline of implementation of several articles in Law of chemicals” v Decree No.26/2011/ND-CP dated April, 8 th, 2011 on “Repair some articles of Degree No.108/NĐ-CP on guideline of implementation of several articles in Law of chemicals” v Decree No. 104/2009/NĐ-CP dated 2009 on Transportation of Chemicals.

Chemical Law (Vinachemia)

Circular from the MOIT v  Circular 28/2010/TT-BCT dated June

28th, 2010 guiding on implementation of Chemical Law and Decree 108/2008/ND-CP dated 07/10/2008;

v  Circular 30/2011/TT-BCT dated Augus t 10 th , 2011 s t ipu la t ing temporarily the permissible content limitation of some hazardous chemicals in the electronic, electrical products.

v  Circular 40/2011/TT-BCT dated November 14th, 2011 guiding on chemical declaration.

v  Circular 04/2012/TT-BCT dated February 13th, 2012 guiding on chemical category and labeling.


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v Chemical Management Activities in Vietnam: - Master Plan for chemical industry development to 2020, vision to 2030; - Chemical register; - Establish the Center for Chemical database and Support for Chemical

accident response; - Chemical inspection; - Information for chemicals management in national level on the website:

www.cuchoachat.gov.vn; - First stage for implementing GHS; - International cooperation for chemicals management.

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v Chemical management activities in cooperation with SAICM, APEC, AMEICC; KEMI (Sweden); METI (Japan) and KOICA (Korea)

§  Chemical management project with UNDP)/SAICM; §  Project «Survey of Mercury Management in Vietnam» with UNEP; §  Chemical Management Forum for Indochina countries with KEMI; §  Information Center for REACH and ROSH with UNIDO; §  Chemical management projects with METI, Japan under MOC

between MOIT and METI v Chemical management in accordance with international

conventions: Kyoto Protocol;Stockholm Convention (POP convention);Chemical Weapon Convention;Vine Convention & Montreal Protocol on ODS; Rotterdam Convention

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v CHALLENGES - Lack of technical guideline: although there has been Government Decree of

chemical safety and that comes into force already, but because still lacking guidelines for implementing the certain items.

- Overlap of activities: because of a lot of stakeholders (ministries) involved in the chemical management and chemical safety in a not clear mechanism of duty or responsibilities allocation, the response ways of the relevant bodies to the management requirements could be quite passive, not active.

- Lack of coordination and cooperation; - Information exchange;

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v CHALLENGES - The legal provisions are not enough strict. Chemical

inspection: have not been given due attention - Awareness of the business on the chemical safety remains

low - Coping skills of workers is not good -  Equipment and manpower to response for chemical

accident: not good. -  Chemical breakdown of the chemical industry of Vietnam

occurred more

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v Regulation on RA in chemicals: not available. v Study on RA: Until now, there are some case

study on RA in the few chemical factory. Example: Application of risk assessement methods in Fertilizer; Assessement of chemical risk and hazardous waste management and some initial results of reseach on methods of assessement chemical risk for human health.

v In 2011 & 2012: Japan support some training course on RA & RM for Vietnam Chemical Agency

Need to training of safe management of chemical risk l Demand for chemical in increasing in Vietnam,

raising awareness of safety – management of chemical risk to communities, businesses and for people exposed to chemicals in general, the toxic chemical in particular is a important work.

l People will be more aware of action consistent with the actual situation and minigate the negative impact cause by chemical triggers.

l To achieve these objectives shoud have a team equipped with the knowledge of safety management – risk chemicals.

Cont.

l  This team will apply the theory into pratice to reduce the toxic effect caused by use of chemicals to human health and our environment and also to strengthen education to raise awareness about safety risks of chemicals in the community to the individual to the individual stakeholers.

l  The demand for human resources needs to be seen as the key in the implementation of the purpose of education and implementation of requirement for safety management of chemical risks.

l  Most of chemicals are toxic and potentially affected the environment and human health. But awareness of chemicals risks and the preventive measures are limited.

Challenge for Risk Management

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v  Gathering Data

Search (existing data） insufficient data

Estimation

unreliable

Measurement

e.g.) Internet etc

e.g.) (Q)SAR, models

e.g.) animal study, environmental measurement etc.

Very expensive, takes a long time

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v  Analysis Data

Risk characterization

(Lack of science proof)

Measurement value

(Based on science study: Routes, parameters)

Fomula, models, softwares

(Unsufficient: Local, terrain, climate etc.)

Proposals in RA & RM in Vietnam

l  Legal solution: Promote the implementation and monitoring closely the implementation of legal document on chemical safety, assessement and chemical risk management in an industrial chemical and chemical protection plants.

l  Technical solution: need to improve production techniques and related toxic chemical to reduce damage caused by use chemicals to human helth and env.

l  Measures for education training: Human resources firm from the traning of young scientists and intellectual capacity.

l  Investment in facilities for basic reaseach areas of chemical risk assessement.

Trends of RA in Vietnam

l Methodology of RA: Develop long term cooperation program with the developed as Japan, USA;

l To exchange experiences with forein expert to raise the level of scientists in Vietnam.

l Estabilst a legal document in RA

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