Health and safety information for regulatory purposes--an industrial point of view.
This article describes how one company (The Dow Chemical Company) is managing the issue of increasing demands by regulatory agencies for health and environmental information. Described are: an interdisciplinary organization linked by a resource and communication network; methods of evaluating information requests and establishing priorities for response; and problems in communicating with the regulators. The need for a responsive technical dialogue between government and industry is stressed.
D003625:Data Collection; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D006077:Government Agencies; D006285:Health Planning; D007221:Industry; D007256:Information Systems; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008499:Medical Records; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000379:methods