I haven’t done anything about labelling as I am waiting until the DEC lets us know exactly what is required on the labels.
My main concern is the fact that all our chemicals are at the moment stored in their classes and we know what classes may or may not be stored beside each other.
Under the new GHS system both Hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxide have the same corrosive symbol with no notation anywhere about incompatabilities.
The new labelling from what I have been able to find out does not take into account the classes, They are reserved for transportation and the class labels are NOT to be on the same label as the GHS symbols.
This is taken from the Safe Work Australia website
http://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/sit ... micals.pdf
“Class labels recommended for the transport of dangerous goods as specified in the ADG Code may be used instead of the relevant hazard pictograms specified in the GHS.
Never use both in the same label. A comparison of the hazard pictograms as specified in the GHS and the ADG Code class labels are shown in Appendix G1.â€Â
i don't want to do all the hard work of labelling only to find out that it is not done to the DEC guidelines and have to do it all again.
I also don't want to have spent time labelling with GHS pictograms when as I read the above statement to read that the Transportation of dangerous goods labelling may be used instead on the label.
This statement is also made in the publications from United nations Economic Commission for Europe where I gather this whole change has been initiated.
http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/tran ... annex7.pdf
Though I would like it if someone in authority would giveus these guidelines so I could get to work!
I am not happy just doing what I think is right I want to be sure.