Packages chemical hazard labels

The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) (CHIP) Regulations 2009 require manufacturers and suppliers to provide users with information about hazards and health risks by labelling their products with relevant hazard information and by issuing Material Safety Data Sheets. 

The Chemicals (Hazardous Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations (CHIP) that were enacted in 1993 under the HSWA, together with subsequent amendments, are concerned with the supply of dangerous substances and preparations and sets out how these should be classified, labelled and packaged. There is also a requirement on the supplier to provide safety data sheets. 

The Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002 (CHIP 2002) are concerned with ensuring that hazardous chemicals when packaged for sale, both to employers and to consumers, are properly packaged and adequately labelled. Also that safety data on the chemicals are provided to the users. 

The most common transportation labels warn against the chemical hazards of flammability (including explosion and oxidizer hazards), corrosiveness, toxicity, or pressure (compressed gas). These labels are shown in Figure App. 3.7. At times, shipments may consist of material that can present a hazard in more than one shipping hazard category. In such cases, DOT regulations specify how these packages are to be labeled (49 Cre 172.402). 

Change from old CHIP (Chemicals Hazard Information and Packaging) to new GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals) regulation... 

Requirements for labelling of containers for supply may differ from those for conveyance. Key features of a supply label are to identify the substance (the chemical name in most cases) and any hazards and safety precuations. In Europe the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances is covered by Directive 67/548/EEC as amended. This requires labels to identify appropriate risk and safety phrases (Tables 12.2 and 12.3) depending upon product properties. A substance is considered dangerous if in Part lA of an approved list or if it exhibits hazardous properties as defined in Schedule 1 for supply, or Schedule 2 for conveyance as shown in Tables 12.4 and 12.5. Substances not tested should be labelled Caution — substance not yet fully tested . Criteria for risk phrases are provided, e.g. as in Table 12.6 for toxic compounds. 

An examination is made of the provisions of Italian legislation relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of hazardous chemicals. 

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