Content for REACH and GHS

REACH: The European Union’s Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) is designed to improve the protection of human health and the environment from the risks that can be posed by chemicals, while enhancing competitiveness within the chemicals industry.

IHS provides unparalleled coverage of REACH.  We provide automated tools that produce the new extended Safety Data Sheets (eSDS), labels and other required hazard communications documents, including modified SDS requirements per REACH Annex II (for example, REACH registration numbers, and all supporting elements to produce an exposure scenario per use, standard use descriptors (SUDs), process, environmental release, market sector, and article categories). In addition, IHS experts collaborate with CEFIC (the European Chemical Industry Council) to develop standards that facilitate efficient exchange of exposure scenario information.

IHS managed regulatory content helps you create extended Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and other required documentation, including:

• eSDS as per REACH Annex II
• Exposure scenario templates following ECHA guidance
• EUPhraC standard phrases, translated in all EU languages
• Bookkeeping and reporting of REACH registration numbers
• REACH screening reports

IHS coverage of REACH regulations include:

• Strategic elements of: (EC) No 1907/2006
• EU substances of very high concern (SVHC)
• REACH Annex XVII, restrictions on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of Certain Dangerous Substances, Preparations And Articles
• Extended safety data sheet format as per REACH Annex II
• Exposure scenario template per ECHA guidance

GHS - The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling (GHS) is a United Nations-sponsored protocol that is designed to drive a common and consistent approach to defining, classifying and communicating hazard information on labels and safety data sheets (SDS). It is designed to improve workplace safety, provide a baseline for jurisdictions that have no hazard communications standards, lessen trade barriers, reduce the need for animal testing, IHS coverage of GHS includes both the UN model regulation and country-specific variations for jurisdictions where the standard has been adopted. Our internal domain experts continuously monitor and interpret existing rules and incorporate new guidelines when a new jurisdiction adopts the GHS model legislation.

IHS sponsors customer task force groups that provide for the exchange of information and ensures a common interpretation of new UN GHS revisions, while monitoring proposed implementations.

IHS provides the full spectrum of fully compliant managed regulatory content for GHS, including documentation to generate: safety data sheets, labels, and classifications (physical-chemical, health and environment hazards).

IHS Covers GHS-Focused Regulations, including:

• UN:GHS 2009 Rev 3
• OSHA Hazardous Communication Standard (Hazcom  2012)
• Classification and labeling in accordance with the last EU DPD/DSD, CLP and SDS in compliance with REACH, using the EU Form and contexts for Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, etc.
• Korea GHS classification list
• New Zealand GHS classification list
• Japan GHS classifications
• Brazil: ABNT NBR 14725 (GHS classification, SDS and labeling)

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Brochures

• EHS & Sustainability Software Solutions for Your Business and Your World
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Research Report

• Enterprise Sustainability Management: Emergence of a New Paradigm
  This new study from LNS Research shares that firm's independent findings regarding the growing importance of ESM. Industry analysts look at how companies around the world are gravitating toward a unified strategy for Enterprise Sustainability Management in order to reduce risks and costs and accelerate operational excellence.
  

Webcasts

• GHS Around the World - Best Practices and Lessons Learned from Global Companies
  IHS and Chemical Watch invite you to join experts from the UN Sub-Committee on GHS, PPG and IHS as they take an in-depth look at GHS adoption around the world. Hear firsthand as they compare and contrast the various GHS implementations around the globe, discuss the US adoption and share best practices and lessons learned from those that have already faced compliance requirements from GHS adoption in other countries.
• Enterprise Sustainability Management - Emergence of a New Paradigm
  View this complimentary webcast to hear the results of an independent research study into the emergence of ESM. Then listen as a panel of experts discusses their first-hand experiences in helping companies from a variety of industries and regions leverage ESM into a new competitive advantage.

Whitepaper

• Understanding the Impact of GHS and the US OSHA Hazard Communication Standard of 2012
  Read this complimentary report to learn how manage change around OHSA's HCS standard, critical deadlines for HCS compliance, changes to standards for classifying chemicals, new formatting requirements for SDSs and other hazard communications documents and much more.

Leverage the market’s most comprehensive source of global regulations and standards. IHS provides dynamic managed regulatory content that is constantly analyzed and updated by our team of experienced domain and industry experts who have broad knowledge of the global regulatory landscape and how it can affect your business.

IHS delivers a vast database of managed regulatory content that includes:

• Content for REACH and GHS 
• Country-specific Regulatory Content
• Industry-specific Content
• Content for Environmental Regulations 
• Content for Transportation Safety Regulations