Introduction to PTK and its Services
PTK is a new specialist consultancy in regulatory chemicals issues. Its founder, Andrew Fasey, has many years of experience at the heart of UK, European and international policy making in the chemicals arena.
With an in-depth knowledge of both REACH, GHS, the current EU legislation and international programmes from both a policy and a technical perspective, combined with an excellent knowledge of how the European and international institutions work, PTK is able to provide a range of consultancy services to enable your business to gain competitive advantage from Chemicals legislation – and not be weighed down in cost and red tape.
PTK can:
- interpret the requirements of EU and international chemicals legislation and programmes for your business.
- influence the development of chemicals legislation through carefully targeted and effective communication.
- identify the impact of EU and international chemicals legislation and programmes on your business.
- recommend action to be taken to maximize the benefit to you and to minimise any costs.
- offer comprehensive political, strategic, legal and technical support on EU and international chemicals legislation and programmes.
PTK have extensive networks across the EU, internationally and in the UK with stakeholders (i.e. NGOs, EU institutions, trade associations, chemical companies, downstream user companies, specialist consultants). This network will be used to deliver the best possible outcome for PTK's clients.
REACH Services Offered by PTK Ltd and Collaborating Organisations
Skills/Functions/Resources:
- Strategic management
- Impact assessment (by company)
- Interpretation and advice
- Training (broad and specific)
- Data capture
- Systems development and application
- Data input and management
- Technical experts e.g.
- Physico-chemical effects
- Toxicologists
- Ecotoxicologists
- Aquatic
- Terrestrial
- Environmental fate
- Risk assessors
- Occupational hygienists
- Exposure assessment (environment, workplace)
- Risk communicators
- Risk management
- Lawyers
- Communicators
- Internal
- External
- Customer contact
- Supplier contact
- Marketing
- R&D personnel
- Procurement, distribution, SC interface
- IT hardware
- IT software (e.g. data recording and tracking, action tracking, progress)
- Representation to authorities (MS, COM, ECHA)
- Auditing and quality assessment
Duties:
- Pre-registration
- Substance identification
- Analytical methods
- Volume tracking
- Acting as 3rd party representative
- SIEFs
- Consortia
- Negotiating
- Arbitration
- Mediation
- Lead company representative in SIEFs
- Acting as ‘Only representative’
- Contracts for SIEFs and consortia
- CBI - advice
- Cost estimation
- Cost sharing calculation
- Effects data collection
- Effects data analysis
- Identification of data requirements
- Exposure based waiving
- Classification and labelling (may require some of the technical expertise above)
- Analysis of effects data
- ‘equivalent’ SVHC
- C&L Inventory
- SVHC criteria
- PBT and vPvB identification/assessment
- Safety Data Sheet preparation
- (Quantitative) Structure Activity Relationships (computer modelling effects)
- Testing strategies
- Exposure assessment
- Exposure monitoring
- Exposure estimation (e.g. EUSES)
- DNEL and PNEC derivations
- Risk management measures
- Exposure scenarios
- Chemicals safety assessments (registration and authorisation)
- Dossier preparation
- Phase-in
- Non-phase-in
- Intermediates
- Transported
- Isolated and site limited
- Substances in articles
- Dossier submission
- Notification of PPORD
- Notification of SVHC in articles
- Evaluation
- Restrictions
- Socio-economic assessment (SEA)
- Authorisation
- CSA
- SEA
- Analysis of alternatives
- Substitution plans
- IUCLID 5
- REACH – IT
- Form completion
- Agency consultation
- Non-phase-in substances
- Non-pre-registered substances
- Monitoring (e.g. substances to: authorisation; restrictions; evaluation)
- Committees
- Communication
- SDS
- Labelling
- Info on SVHC in articles to recipients
- Info on SVHC in articles to consumers
- Risk communication
- Downstream user duties
Customers:
- Downstream users
- EU manufacturers
- EU importers
- Non-EU manufacturers
- Substances
- Preparations
- Articles
The above is a non-exhaustive list. Please contact PTK if there are other services you require.
