Identifying hazard classes to be included
- Identifying hazard classes to be included
- Identifying who will do the classification
- Identifying the labelling and safety data sheet requirements
- Identifying who will assess the hazard communication elements
Based on the GHS, decide which of the following GHS hazard classes will be adopted by the sector:
1. Physical hazards
a. Explosives
b. Flammable gases (including chemically unstable gases)
c. Aerosols
d. Oxidizing gases
e. Gases under pressure
f. Flammable liquids
g. Flammable solids
h. Self-reactive substances and mixtures
i. Pyrophoric liquids
j. Pyrophoric solids
k. Self-heating substances and mixtures
l. Substances and mixtures which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
m. Oxidizing liquids
n. Oxidizing solids
o. Organic peroxides
p. Corrosive to metals
2. Health Hazards
a. Acute toxicity
b. Skin corrosion/irritation
c. Serious eye damage/eye irritation
d. Respiratory or skin sensitization
e. Germ cell mutagenicity
f. Carcinogenicity
g. Reproductive toxicity
h. Specific target organ toxicity – Single exposure
i. Specific target organ toxicity – Repeated exposure
j. Aspiration hazard
3. Environmental Hazards
a. Hazardous to the aquatic environment
b. Hazardous to the ozone layer.
Relevant tools
- UNECE. “UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods – Model Regulations Eighteenth revised edition”. Online.
- OECD. “OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals”. Online.
- UNECD. “UN Manual of Tests and Criteria” Online.
- UNECE, Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS, Rev.5), (Geneva: United Nations, 2013), ST/SG/AC.10/30/Rev.5
- UNITAR, ILO and IOMC (2012), Understanding the GHS: A Companion Guide to the Purple Book, June 2012 Edition, (UNITAR, Geneva)
- UNITAR, ILO and IOMC (2010), Developing a National GHS Implementation Strategy, September 2010 Edition (UNITAR, Geneva)