William G' Machin

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William G. Machin Manager Classification and
Hazard Communication Cefic European Chemical
Industry Council Brussels
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GHS Hazard Communication
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• Hazard Communication
• Tools
• Training
• Labels
• Safety Data Sheets

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• Training
• Training users is an integral part of hazard
  communication.
• Key target audiences for training include
  workers, emergency responders, and those involved
  in the preparation of labels, SDS and hazard
  communication strategies as part of risk
  management systems.
• Systems should identify appropriate education and
  training
• Training should be appropriate for and
  commensurate with the nature of the work or
  exposure.
• Others involved in the transport and supply of
  hazardous chemicals also require training to
  varying degrees.
• Systems should consider strategies required for
  educating consumers in interpreting label
  information on products that they use

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Target Audiences Workers Label Safety Data
Sheet Training Workplace Information Transport
Labels Training Other Information
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Target Audiences Consumers Label only source
of information Emergency Responders Medical
Personnel Labels Safety Data Sheets Other
Information Fire Fighters Labels Graphical
Information Other Information
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• Labels
• Harmonised Labelling Elements
• Pictograms
• Signal Words
• Hazard Statements
• Product Identifiers
• Precautionary Statements or Pictograms
• Optional in the UN GHS, but will be mandatory in
  the EU GHS
• Work is ongoing at the UN SCE GHS on
  Precautionary Statements

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Harmonised Labelling Elements (see UN GHS Annex
I) Hazard Class Acute Toxicity Oral Hazard
Category 1 Pictograms or Signal
Word Danger Hazard Statement Fatal if swallowed
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Pictograms Frame Colour Symbol
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Transport Pictograms used for the GHS
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GHS Pictograms
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Precedence of Hazard Pictograms Transport
Pictogram gt GHS Pictogram Health Hazard
Pictograms Skull and crossbones gt Exclamation
Mark Corrosive gt Exclamation Mark (skin/eye
irritation) Health Hazard gt Exclamation
Mark (respiratory sensitisation) (dermal
Sensitisation, skin/eye irritation) Physico-Chemic
al Hazard Symbols In accordance with the UN
Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous
Goods
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Signal Words A word used to indicate the relative
severity of the hazard Danger Used for the more
severe hazard categories (usually 1
2) Warning Used for the less severe hazard
categories Some Hazard Categories do not have
Signal Words assigned The Signal Words assigned
to each Hazard Class and Hazard Category are
shown in Annex 1 of the UN GHS
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Hazard Statements A Hazard Statement is a phrase
assigned to a Hazard Class and Category that
describes the nature of the hazard, including the
severity of the hazard where applicable. A Hazard
Statement is allocated to each Hazard Class and
Category see Annex 1 of the UN GHS NOTE In the
second revised edition of the GHS, Hazard
Statements have now been codified
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Table A3.1.2 Hazard statement codes for health
hazards
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• Precautionary Statements/Pictograms
• A Precautionary Statement is a phrase or
  Pictogram that describes the recommended measures
  that should be taken to minimise or prevent the
  adverse effects resulting from exposure to a
  hazardous product or improper handling or
  storage of a hazardous product.
• There are 5 types of Precautionary Statement
• General Precautionary Statements
• Prevention Precautionary Statements
• Response Precautionary Statements
• Storage Precautionary Statements
• Disposal Precautionary Statements
• For guidance on the allocation and use of
  precautionary statements or pictograms see
  Annex 3 of the UN GHS
• NOTE In the second revised edition of the GHS,
  Hazard Statements have now been codified

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Table A3.2.4 Codification of storage
precautionary statements
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Other GHS Label Information Product Identifier
and Chemical Identities (i) A product identifier
has to be used on a label which should match the
product identifier used in the SDS. Where a
substance or mixture is covered by the UN Model
Regulations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods,
the UN proper shipping name should also be
used (ii) For a substance, the label should
include the chemical identity of the
substance. For mixtures or alloys, the label
should include the chemical identities of all
ingredients or alloying elements that contribute
to acute toxicity, skin corrosion or serious eye
damage, germ cell mutagenicity, carcinogenicity,
reproductive toxicity, skin or respiratory
sensitisation, or Target Organ Systemic Toxicity
(TOST), when these hazards appear on the label.
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Other GHS Label Information Supplier
Identification The Manufacturer or Supplier
should also provide the following information on
the GHS Label (i) Name of the Manufacturer or
Supplier (ii) Address of the Manufacturer or
Supplier (iii) Telephone Number of the
Manufacturer or Supplier Emergency advise should
normally be available from this number
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Presentation of information on the label The GHS
hazard pictograms, signal word and hazard
statements should be located together on the
label. The competent authority may choose to
provide a specified layout for the presentation
of these and for the presentation of
precautionary information, or allow supplier
discretion. Labelling examples are shown in Annex
7 of the UN GHS
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Current EU Labelling
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GHS Label
Transport Information 1.4.10.5.2(d)(i)
GHS Label 1.4.10.5.4.1
Company/Branding Information
GHS Product Identifier (1.4.10.5.2(d)(i)) GHS
Chemical Identities (1.4.10.5.2(d)(ii)) GHS
Signal Word (1.4.10.5.2(a)) GHS Hazard Statement
(1.4.10.5.2(b)) GHS Hazard Statement
(1.4.10.5.2(b)) GHS Precautionary Statement
(1.4.10.5.2(c)) GHS Precautionary Statement
(1.4.10.5.2(c)) GHS Precautionary Statement
(1.4.10.5.2(c)) GHS Supplier Identifier
(1.4.10.5.2(e)) GHS Supplemental Information
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Commercial Information PRODUCT ABC Manufactured
by Company XYZ
Product Information/Use Instructions XXXXXXXXXXXXX
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GHS Supplemental Information 1.4.10.5.4.2
Other Information
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Hazard Communication Considerations 1 Comprehens
ibility 2 Confidential Business
Information 3 Updating of Labels and Safety Data
Sheets 4 Supplemental Information 5 Competent
Authority Options
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• Comprehensibility
• Principles underpinning GHS Hazard Communication
• Information should be conveyed in more than 1 way
• Comprehensibility of the labelling components
  should take account of existing experience
• Hazard Statements used to indicate the severity
  of the hazard should be consistent across hazard
  classes

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• Confidential Business Information (CBI)
• - Rules for the protection of CBI are elaborated
  at National level
• - Protection of CBI should not compromise Health
  and Safety
• - Rules on CBI of an importing country have to be
  respected
• GHS 1.4.8.3 states
• General principles for the Protection of CBI
• (a) For information otherwise required on labels
  or safety data sheets, CBI claims should be
  limited to the names of chemicals, and their
  concentrations in mixtures. All other information
  should be disclosed on the label and/or safety
  data sheet, as required
• (b) Where CBI has been withheld, the label or
  chemical safety data sheet should so indicate
• CBI should be disclosed to the competent
  authority upon request. The competent authority
  should protect the confidentiality of the
  information in accordance with applicable law and
  practice
• The rules in REACH will be those applicable for
  CBI in the EU

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Updating of Labels Safety Data Sheets 1 New
Information Updating should be carried out
promptly on receipt of new or significant
information that changes the GHS classification
of the substance or mixture and leads to a
resulting change in the information provided on
the label or any information concerning the
chemical and appropriate control measures that
may affect the SDS. 2 Periodic
Review Suppliers should also periodically review
the information on which the label and safety
data sheet for a substance or mixture is based,
even if no new and significant information has
been provided to them in respect of that
substance or mixture.
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Supplemental Information Supplemental Information
is permitted if (a) the supplementary
information provides further detail and does not
contradict or cast doubt on the validity of the
standardised hazard information or (b) the
supplementary information provides information
about hazards not yet incorporated into the
GHS. The supplementary information should not
lower standards of protection. The placement of
supplemental information should not impede
identification of GHS information
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Competent Authority Options - Labelling 1.4.6.3.1
Supplemental Information specify additional
Information 1.4.10.5.2(c) Precautionary
Statements specify what to use 1.4.10.5.2(c)
Precautionary Statements allow use of
Pictograms 1.4.10.5.2(d)(ii) Product Identifier
can require all Chemical Identities 1.4.10.5.2(d)(
iii) Product Identifier to allow Chemical
identity on SDS 1.4.10.5.3.1 Symbol Precedence
require all Phys-Chem. Pictograms 1.4.10.5.4.2 Sup
plemental Information allow additional
information 1.4.10.5.5 CMRs to allow certain
information either on label or SDS 1.4.10.5.5 Labe
lling Metals Alloys allow information on SDS
only 1.4.10.5.5.2 Consumer Risk Based Labelling
allow Risk based labels 1.4.7.2.2 Updating Labels
for new information may specify time
limit 1.4.7.2.3 Label Content Review may
specify review period required 1.4.10.4.2.3 GHS
Pictograms can permit use of black
frame 1.4.10.5.3.3 Hazard Statements may
specify sequence on label 1.4.10.5.4.1 Label
format may specify format 1.4.10.5.4.3 Use of
Colour on label may stipulate own
provisions 1.4.10.5.5.1 Workplace Labelling may
allow alternative methods
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• Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
• Primary use of the SDS is for workplace
  users (1.5.1.2)
• SDS enables the employer to (1.5.1.1)
• (i) develop an active programme of worker
  protection measures, including training, which is
  specific to the individual workplace and
• (ii) consider any measures necessary to protect
  the environment.
• An SDS should be produced for (1.5.2)
• all substances and mixtures which meet the
  harmonized criteria for physical, health or
  environmental hazards under the GHS
• all mixtures which contain substances that meet
  the criteria for carcinogenic, toxic to
  reproduction or target organ systemic toxicity in
  concentrations exceeding the cut-off limits for
  SDS specified by the criteria for mixtures (see
  paragraph1.5.3.1).

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Safety Data Sheets (SDS) Headings in Annex II of
REACH are consistent with the GHS 1.
Identification 2. Hazard(s) identification 3.
Composition/information on ingredients 4.
First-aid measures 5. Fire-fighting measures 6.
Accidental release measures 7. Handling and
storage 8. Exposure controls/personal
protection 9. Physical and chemical
properties 10. Stability and reactivity 11.
Toxicological information 12. Ecological
information 13. Disposal considerations 14.
Transport information 15. Regulatory
information 16. Other information. See UN GHS
Annex 4 for guidance
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Competent Authority Options - SDS 1.5.2 To
require an SDS for certain unclassified
mixtures 1.5.3.1.3 To require an SDS for mixtures
which are not classified for acute toxicity or
aquatic toxicity as a result of application of
the additivity formula, but which contain acutely
toxic substances or substances toxic to the
aquatic environment in concentrations 1
1.5.3.1.4 Not to require an SDS for certain
Hazard Classes/Categories 1.5.3.3.1 To require
additional information
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UN SCE GHS 2007/2008 Work Program Hazard
Communication Revision of Annexes 1, 2 and 3 of
the UN GHS (UK Leading) Revision/Simplification
of Precautionary Statements Combination Hazard
Statements Combination Precautionary
Statements Guidance on the labelling of very
small packages (Cefic Leading)