Put simply this regulation affects everyone who sells hazardous materials to other professional users and will replace the UK’s CHIP regulations. So why do we need to change? The idea of the GHS framework is to make it easier for companies to do business thoughout the world by everyone using the same classifications. If you look at the table for Acute Toxic (Oral) you can see how hard it is for companies, for each country that they want to trade in they have to create a different MSDS.