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The
International Lead Industry recognizes that exposure to lead can result in
risks to human health and the environment. The Industry is committed, through
the International Lead Management Center (ILMC), to work with governments,
industries and the international community to manage the risk of lead exposure.
The
Environment Ministers of the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recognized in the 1996 Declaration
on Risk Reduction for Lead the Industry has experience in the sound management
of lead production and the prudent use of lead products, including the
development of alternative solutions.
The
Although
ILMC was founded and is sponsored by the lead-producing industry, liaison and
cooperation has been established with the major lead product sectors. ILMC
expertise and advice is therefore available across the full range of issues
associated with production, applications, recycling and waste management.
ILMC
complements and supports existing international risk management activities and
responds to the individual needs of countries who wish to introduce such
projects in either industry or their local communities.
The
Center welcomes inquiries and requests for either advice or assistance. Requests
for assistance are assessed through the Center’s considerable network of
technical, metallurgical and occupational health expertise. ILMC provides
assistance by working with national governments and interested parties to
identify the most appropriate risk management options.
ILMC
activities are supported by an extensive and growing database containing
consensus health materials and detailed lead risk information for mining,
refining, manufacturing, recycling and associated case studies. The database
will also maintain a register of those agencies and organizations able to
assist with the funding of community based projects.
The
The Center
was established by the International Lead Industry in response to the need for
coordinated international action on the issue of lead risk management.
The Center
was originally founded as a “not for profit organization” by
ten major mining and lead-producing corporations from
In 2005,
the ILMC was incorporated as a LLC into the International
Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO) and in 2007 the activities of
ILZRO and ILMC came under the financial support of the Lead Development Association International (LDAI) in
Guidance and direction on
lead risk reduction priorities, project feasibility and action programs are
provided by the LDAI Governing Council.
For
over a decade the ILMC has provided technical assistance to International
Agencies, Governments and Companies in the Lead Industry Sector interested in
assessing and reducing the risk of lead exposure. ILMC has demonstrated that
lead exposure risks can be managed through the introduction of specific Environmentally
Sound Management (ESM) procedures tailored to the distinct lead exposure issues
unique to each country’s cultural, technical, geographic and
socio-economic circumstances.
The Pilot
Programs initiated under the OECD mandate enabled the ILMC to establish a
proven track record of Risk Management. ILMC has worked on Multi-stakeholder
Schemes in:
Expertise
gained implementing the Pilot Programs ensures that any such procedures for ESM
are not only effective, but most importantly sustainable. All investigative
data, research, analysis and documentation, including any training modules,
will be retained by the government agency and the Companies responsible for
implementing ESM.
In
recent years the ILMC has been working on a number of Regional and Global lead
risk reduction projects.
Technical
expertise has been provided to the Secretariat to the Basel Convention in the
preparation of the Basel Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound
Recovery of Used Lead Acid Batteries (ULAB) and in the implementation of the
Regional Project for the ESM of ULAB in Central America and the Caribbean and
to establish a ULAB Inventory in
The ILMC
is also is also an active member of the Green Lead Work Group,
implementing Product Stewardship through life cycle management.
ILMC
has assisted many government agencies and companies that recognize the need to
assess and reduce lead exposure. Good operating practices and hygiene
procedures are the most important factors in reducing occupational lead
exposure. Experience has shown that those companies with the lowest levels of
exposure have invariably the highest operating standards and the best hygiene
procedures in the operating areas.
Occupational
health and hygiene training programs can be arranged to improve current
operating practices. Where necessary ILMC can provide training for local industry
based occupational hygienists so that they can deliver risk management programs
at their own locations and facilities.
Information
and educational materials designed to provide workers with information about
personal risk management are available.
ILMC
contributed to the preparation of the Basel Training Manual for the ESM of ULAB
and copies can be downloaded from the Basel web
site.
Many
lead-bearing finished products are essential to the social and economic needs of
modern societies. Various applications could, however, have the potential to
pose a risk of exposure to either the population or the environment.
ILMC has
established liaison with relevant industry and consumer organizations in order
to ensure a cooperative approach to minimize exposure.
Particular
emphasis is given to increasing the level of recycling lead bearing materials
to fully exploit the cost benefits and to reduce possible environmental risks.
ILMC can
provide advice in those cases where a government agency intends to legislate
against the production of a specified lead-bearing material on the most
appropriate substitute and a transition frame-work consistent with multilateral
trade laws and rules.
Information
is available electronically on the Internet at: www.ilmc.org
Visit
the ILMC web site which is developed to offer information on:
During
the four years that the ILMC implemented the Risk Management Pilot Programs in
accordance with the OECD mandate a quarterly newsletter, NewsCasting,
was published featuring updates on the Center’s activities and
participation in International events.
Back
issues of NewsCasting can be downloaded from the ILMC
web site.
This book contains a comprehensive body of technical data to enable all
those interested in lead glazes for foodware to
easily access relevant information in a single source. Several levels of
information have been incorporated to address various needs including, detailed
glaze compositions and lead extraction . This Handbook
explains the safe use of lead-containing ceramic glazes and decorations in a
range of industries from the large manufacturers to smaller cottage industries.
Available to download
as a printable PDF (3 MB).
Manual
para el Manejo Ambientalmente Responsable del Plomo
Cámara Minera de México (CAMIMEX) in
conjunction with the ILMC, Peñoles, S.A. and
the Center for Environmental Quality in Monterrey, have produced a practical
guidance Manual for small to medium sized businesses wishing to provide a safe
and environmentally sound working environment that includes a data base of all
the relevant National Standards and Legislation covering the lead industry.
(Spanish language only)
ILMC Risk Reduction presentation materials are available on the ILMC web
site.
Risk Management Information for products and applications isavailable for the following: