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Safety Data Sheets Explained

What a safety data sheet is, who must supply one under REACH, the sixteen sections and the ones that matter most for a COSHH assessment and for an emergency.

A safety data sheet, SDS, is the document a supplier must provide with every hazardous chemical, setting out its hazards, its safe handling and what to do if something goes wrong. Under the EU REACH Regulation the format is fixed at sixteen sections in a set order, in the language of the country of sale. The SDS is where the COSHH assessment gets its facts, and where the first aider and the fire service get theirs.

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A sixteen section document supplied with a hazardous chemical that describes its hazards, safe handling, storage, exposure controls, first aid and emergency measures, required under the EU REACH Regulation.

Section 8, exposure controls and personal protection, which also lists the occupational exposure limit values.

Suppliers must update them when new hazard information or restrictions arise. Employers should review their SDS register at least once a year and request current versions.

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Safety Data Sheets Explained

What a safety data sheet is, who must supply one under REACH, the sixteen sections and the ones that matter most for a COSHH assessment and for an emergency.

Who must provide it and when

Article 31 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, REACH, requires suppliers to provide an SDS free of charge, on paper or electronically, for substances and mixtures classified as hazardous, and to update it when new hazard information or restrictions emerge. Employers must obtain the SDS for every hazardous product they use, keep it accessible to employees and use it in the risk assessment. A product with no SDS available should not be in use.

The sixteen sections

  1. Identification of the product and the supplier, with an emergency phone number.
  2. Hazards identification: the CLP classification and label elements.
  3. Composition and information on ingredients.
  4. First aid measures.
  5. Fire fighting measures.
  6. Accidental release measures.
  7. Handling and storage.
  8. Exposure controls and personal protection, including exposure limit values.
  9. Physical and chemical properties.
  10. Stability and reactivity.
  11. Toxicological information.
  12. Ecological information.
  13. Disposal considerations.
  14. Transport information.
  15. Regulatory information.
  16. Other information, including the date of revision.

The sections a COSHH assessment uses most

Section 2 tells you what the hazards are. Section 8 gives the occupational exposure limit values to compare against the HSA Code of Practice, and the engineering controls and PPE the supplier recommends. Section 7 gives handling and storage conditions, including incompatible materials. Section 9 gives flash point, boiling point and vapour pressure, which decide fire risk and how quickly vapour builds up. Sections 4, 5 and 6 are copied into the emergency procedures and made available to first aiders.

Keeping and using them

Hold a register of every hazardous product with its current SDS, dated, in a folder or a system employees can reach without a password at the point of use. Review the register at least yearly, remove products no longer used and ask suppliers for updated sheets. Train employees to find the SDS and read the sections that matter to their task.

REACH Article 31

Suppliers must provide an SDS for every hazardous product, free and updated.

Sixteen fixed sections

Same order on every sheet, in the language of the country of sale.

Sections 2, 7, 8, 9

Hazards, handling, exposure limits and PPE, physical properties: the assessment core.

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