The HESI Frameworks for Alternative Chemical Assessment and Selection of Safer, Sustainable Alternatives Subcommittee (a.k.a. Sustainable Alternatives Subcommittee) was initiated in 2011 as an Emerging Issues Subcommittee. Its mission is to evaluate and identify key elements/criteria and tools to help trigger and guide the selection of safer, sustainable alternatives while minimizing the likelihood of regrettable substitutions. The subcommittee is comprised of technical experts from academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and government and has been working towards holding a workshop to develop more detailed guidance for conducting alternatives assessments. Results of the workshop and of the subcommittee will be submitted for publication in a peer reviewed journal.
The purpose of the workshop was to bring together multi-stakeholder, multi-disciplinary expertise to develop practical, problem driven guidance on the conduct of alternatives assessment. To accomplish this, the subcommittee was divided into three subgroups to address three interrelated topics where clear challenges were previously identified. The goal of each subgroup was to lead a multi-stakeholder discussion, that developed useful techniques and guidance documents to enhance existing alternatives assessment frameworks and to identify challenges where further work is needed. The three subgroup topics were:
1) Attributes and Tools
2) Decision-making and Weighing
3) Data gaps
Please click here to download the draft workshop agenda.
Workshop participation was by invitation-only and the workshop size is limited to 50. We sought active participation by experts in alternatives assessment, specifically in the three topics described above. The workshop was highly interactive with two half-day break-out sessions for discussions.
For additional information, contact Jennifer Young Tanir: jtanir@hesiglobal.org; (202) 659-3306 x132.
hesi@hesiglobal.org
Phone: +1-202-659-8404
Fax: +1-202-659-8403
740 15th Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005
Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter.