![]() ![]() GHS drops ‘Caution.’ The signal word indicates the relative degree of severity of a hazard. All container labels should display one or more of eight specific “pictograms,” which are basically icons that appears in small red boxes that will help you to quickly identify the specific hazard or hazards associated with the product you are using.īased on the GHS criteria, only two signal words,’ Danger’ and ‘Warning,’ remain.The new SDSs are divided into 16 sections, with information about the product’s chemical hazards appearing in a set order that is always the same for every sheet.Ĭontainer labels should display mandatory information, including a product identifier that is exactly the same as that appearing on the corresponding Safety Data Sheet.Ĭontainer labels will also have standardized “signal words,” “hazard statements,” and “precautionary statements” to help ensure you are alerted to applicable dangers and necessary safeguards you should follow when working with that product. “Material Safety Data Sheets” (MSDSs) are replaced by “Safety Data Sheets” (SDSs). To address this problem, OSHA recently revised their Hazard Communication Standard to align with the international “Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals,” commonly referred to as “GHS.” As a result, manufacturers and distributors of hazardous chemicals and products must begin to standardize how they categorize the hazards of their products, as well as the information and format of their container labels and Safety Data Sheets. The end result was a confusing mish-mash of information that often failed to help workers quickly discern the hazards of the products they were using. ![]() However, there was not a set format to govern how the companies that produced or distributed those chemicals categorized the hazards of their products, or how the labels and MSDSs had to appear. For many years now, employees could gather limited information about the hazardous chemicals they work with by looking at container labels and reading Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs).
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