Expert forecast on emerging chemical risks related to occupational safety and health (European risk observatory report)

The Community strategy on heath and safety at work 2002-2006 called on the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work to ’set up a risk observatory' to ’anticipate new and emerging risks'. Within this context, a series of four expert forecasts were formulated with the aim of providing as comprehensive as possible a picture of the potential emerging risks in the world of work. Three reports on emerging physical risks, biological risks and psychosocial risks have already been published. This publication (the last one of the series) presents the results of the forecast on emerging chemical risks related to occupational safety and health based on an expert survey and a literature review.