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.
Welcome to the Minerva weblog. Over the coming weeks I hope to cover a number of topics that will be of interest to anyone involved in producing material safety data sheets (MSDS) to the new GHS/CLP regulations. I hope to pass on some of the information we have gathered together over the past few years and how we have interpreted the regulations.
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Some of the subjects to be covered
Over the next few weeks we plan on discussing these topics:
If there is any topic to do with Material Safety Data Sheets that you would like discussed please contact me on billp@minerva-mix.com
- What is GHS/CLP and who does it affect?
- What do LD50 and LC50 mean?
- The German Water regulations (WGK)
- What are the CLP Classifications, Acute Toxic, STOT RE…..?
- The Hazard and Prevention statements
- The percentage of formulation statements that might appear in section 3.3 of the CLP MSDS (“Contains x% of components with unknown hazards to the environment” and “x percent of the mixture consists of component(s) of unknown toxicity”)
- What are OEL/WEL limits
- Environmental controls
- UN Transport codes
If there is any topic to do with Material Safety Data Sheets that you would like discussed please contact me on billp@minerva-mix.com
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