Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
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Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
About This Book
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) addresses classification and labelling of chemicals by types of hazards. It provides the basis for worldwide harmonization of rules and regulations on chemicals and aims at enhancing the protection of human health and the environment during their handling, transport and use by ensuring that the information about their physical, health and environmental hazards is available. The sixth revised edition includes, inter alia, a new hazard class for desensitized explosives and a new hazard category for pyrophoric gases; miscellaneous amendments intended to further clarify the criteria for some hazard classes (explosives, specific target organ toxicity following single exposure, aspiration hazard, and hazardous to the aquatic environment) and to complement the information to be included in section 9 of the Safety Data Sheet; revised and further rationalized precautionary statements; and an example of labelling of a small packaging in Annex 7.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Physical hazards
- Health hazards
- Environmental hazards
- Annexes
- Annex 1: Classification and labelling summary tables
- Annex 3: Codification of hazard statements, codification and use of precautionary statements, codification of hazard pictograms and examples of precautionary pictograms
- Annex 4: Guidance on the preparation of safety data sheets (SDS)
- Annex 5: consumer product labelling based on the likelihood of injury
- Annex 6: Comprehensibility testing methodology
- Annex 7: Examples of arrangements of the ghs label elements
- Annex 8: An example of classification in the globally harmonized system
- Annex 9: Guidance on hazards to the aquatic environment
- Annex 10: Guidance on transformation/dissolution of metals and metal compounds in aqueous media