Application for copy of Ecospecifier
verified Product Program Standard
Ecospecifier Verified
Product Program
Extract from the Ecospecifier verified Product Program Standard on
the ES CAP Process
Extract from the Ecospecifier verified Product Program Standard on
Program Operation
List of Recently Verified Products
List of products undergoing
Ecospecifier Verified Assessment
Application for copy of
ecospecifier
verified Product Program
Standard (Free)
Extract from the verified Product Standard on the ES CAP
Process
Extract from the verified Product Standard on Program
Operation
Ecospecifier
Verified Product Program
The Ecospecifier
Verified Product Program replaces
the previous ECG Premium Ecospecifier
assessments and listings reassuring potential customers that any
Ecospecifier verified product is an eco-preferred,
healthy product in accordance with our
Ecospecifier verified Product Program
Standard.
Furthermore, it guarantees to consumers and professionals alike
that all key manufacturer health & environmental claims are
third party verified and assessed in a rigorous, scientific manner
using a Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) analysis in combination with our
unique Ecospecifier Cautionary Assessment Process
or ES CAP health and eco-toxicity screen that considers the impacts
of composition down to 0.1-0.001% (ES CAP and Product Category
Specific Standards ranges) using Australian, European, US Standards
and others as appropriate, all under our ISO 9001 Certified Quality
Management System.
The new, easily recognisable Ecospecifier logo
enhances an already well respected and trusted eco-branding to the
benefit of manufacturers own branding and is a low cost way to
assure potential customers that the product information is not
'Greenwash'.
Verified assessment website listings also provide a full
Green Building Rating Tool Technical
Opinion as to the relevance of the product to all
Green Building Rating tool credits relevant to the Emirate, country
or region e.g. Green Star™, LEED®, BREEAM™, Green Mark, Estidama
Pearl, etc. as a powerful marketing tool in addition to
existing strategies.
The verified products program does NOT certify credits, but it
does provide advice about the relevance of the product to all
credits.
All Ecospecifier verified
assessments are included in the relevant country website to attract
interested green building professionals and specifiers using the
site's powerful green building rating tool and credit specific
search functions and significant web-traffic volumes and statistics
feedback to provide major green marketing benefits and drive
sales.
The benefits of a detailed product listing on
Ecospecifier website are also to be found at:
Testimonials - Professional
Testimonials - Manufacturer
Application for copy of Ecospecifier verified Product Program Standard (Free)
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Extract from the Ecospecifier verified Product Program Standard
on the ES CAP Process (Pg. 12).
This standard includes a unique Human Health and
Eco-toxicityEcospecifier Cautionary Assessment
Process (hereinafter referred to as ES CAP) developed by
Ecospecifier based around the United Nations
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of
Chemicals (GHS) and the related EU Directive 2001/59/EC i.e., the
EU Regulation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of
Dangerous Substances and Mixtures and the related UE ESIS: European
chemical Substances Information System has been used [on which the
Australian HSIS system has been based-see below] , assessing
products based on element and compound concentrations present
within a product via a full composition analysis together with a
scale and intensity based risk assessment process.
The basic principle of this system is to approximate the NOAEL, or NOAEC levels of
constituents within products via the ES CAP assessment
process.
This approach recognises that NOAEL/NOAEC and LC/LD toxicity data are DOSE
indicators and as toxicity hazard potential is a function of both
dose and exposure, NOAEL/NOAEC levels or LC/LD toxicity data are,
in themselves, not able to assess toxicity risk levels of products
in manufacture, use (except in the case of VOCs and other gaseous
emissions or with extremely detailed in-situ chemical specific
analysis well beyond the range of any building rating scheme) or
disposal.
The system adopted herein allows an approximation of the
NOAEL/NOAEC after assessing the likely Probability and Severity of
the possible risk before ascribing a hazard/risk level or score
which according to the Expert Panel most closely reflects
NOAEL/NOAECs.
This ES CAP results in the attribution of an appropriate
score and four possible actions/warnings:
- Unmodified inclusion of the product assessment in the
database; OR
- A product listing modified with an 'Issue of Concern' mild
Cautionary Comment/s including relevant R-Phrases and S-Phrases;
OR
- A product listing modified with an 'Red Light' or severe
Cautionary Comment/s including relevant R-Phrases and S-Phrases;
OR
- Exclusion from further assessment and licensing of
Label.
This information is then attached to the Product Assessment
or Label to ensure full transparency.
- REFERENCE STANDARD AUSTRALIA: Safe Work Australia HSIS
System, United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification
and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)and Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 - EU
Regulation on the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of
Substances and Mixtures and ES CAP process (see Appendix
1).
- REFERENCE STANDARD GLOBAL: United Nations Globally
Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
(GHS)and Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 - EU Regulation on the
Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures
and ES CAP process (see Appendix 1).
GREEN BUILDING RATING TOOL REFERENCE STANDARDS:
- REFERENCE STANDARD AUSTRALIA: Green Star™ Technical Manuals
of currently released Sector tools and subsequent tools and
versions.
- REFERENCE STANDARD STH AFRICA, NEW ZEALAND: Green
Star™[1] Technical
Manuals of currently released Sector tools and subsequent tools and
versions
- REFERENCE STANDARDS OTHER COUNTRIES: Scheme specific tool
Reference Manuals, Guides or Standards as relevant, e.g.
LEED®[2] (USA, Canada,
UAE, India and China), BREEAM[3] (UK, UAE, ME), Singapore Green
Mark[4], Estidama Pearl
Design Rating Scheme (Abu Dhabi) and other building sustainability
rating tools.
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Extract from the Ecospecifier verified Product Program Standard
on Program Operation (Pg. 17).
42B3.10
Accessibility
Application to, and participation in, the
Ecospecifier VERIFIED product program is open to
all potential supplier proponents with products that successfully
fulfill the criteria for program requirements. Any successful
supplier/product proponent will be entitled to be granted a licence
and authorised to use the label. Fees and conditions to access the
VERIFIED program will be consistently applied across all
applicants, without any conditions related to the size of
the supplier or membership of any association or group, nor shall
certification be conditional upon the number of certificates
already issued.
3.11 Scientific basis of
product environmental criteria
The development and selection of criteria are based on sound
scientific, life cycle based impact assessment, materials science,
chemical, toxicity, biodiversity and engineering principles. The
criteria are derived from data that support the claim of
environmental and health preferability.
3.12 Avoidance of conflict
of interest
Ecospecifier will ensure that the process
is free from undue influence and that sources of funding will not
create a conflict of interest.
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[1] Green Star™
is a Registered Trade Mark of the Green Building Council of
Australia
[2] LEED is a
Registered Trade Mark of the US Green Building Council
[3] BREEAM is a Registered Trade Mark of
BRE Global Limited and the BRE Trust
[4] GreenMark is
a Registered Trade Mark of Building Codes Authority Singapore