GHS Classification Guidance for the Japanese Government 2013 Revised Edition
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GHS Classification Guidance for the Japanese Government 2013 Revised Edition August 2013 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Ministry of the Environment, Consumer Affairs Agency, Government of Japan, Fire and Disaster Management Agency, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Tourism TABLE OF CONTENTS Part1 Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1 1-1 Regarding "GHS Classification Guidance" ............................................................................ 1 1-2 Method of describing classification results ............................................................................ 3 1-3 Workflow of GHS classification ............................................................................................. 4 Part2 Physical Hazards Guidance ................................................................................... 8 2-1 Sources of information available for classification and judgment.......................................... 8 2-1-1 Information directly applicable to GHS classification (Classification according to the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods) .................................................. 8 2-1-2 Data collection systems of physical properties ...................................................................... 10 2-1-3 Data collections of physicochemical hazard data .................................................................. 13 2-1-4 Reference materials................................................................................................................ 15 2-2 Classification of Physical Hazards based on physical, chemical states and chemical structure ...................................................................................................................................... 17 2-2-1 Introduction............................................................................................................................ 17 2-2-2 Definition of physicochemical state in GHS .......................................................................... 17 2-2-3 Gases ...................................................................................................................................... 17 2-2-4 Liquids ................................................................................................................................... 18 2-2-5 Solids ..................................................................................................................................... 18 2-2-6 Selection of assessment items according to chemical structure ............................................. 18 2-2-7 Chemical groups related to explosibility ............................................................................... 20 2-2-8 Chemical groups related to self-reactivity ............................................................................. 20 2-2-9 Guidance for classification and examples of classification results indication ....................... 21 2-3 Classification and details of physical hazards ...................................................................... 34 2-3-1 Explosives .............................................................................................................................. 34 2-3-2 Flammable Gases (including chemically unstable gases) ...................................................... 43 2-3-3 Aerosols ................................................................................................................................. 48 2-3-4 Oxidizing Gases ..................................................................................................................... 51 2-3-5 Gases Under Pressure ............................................................................................................ 54 2-3-6 Flammable Liquids ................................................................................................................ 56 2-3-7 Flammable Solids .................................................................................................................. 59 2-3-8 Self-reactive Substances and Mixtures .................................................................................. 62 2-3-9 Pyrophoric Liquids ................................................................................................................ 67 2-3-10 Pyrophoric Solids ................................................................................................................. 70 2-3-11 Self-heating Substances and Mixtures ................................................................................. 73 2-3-12 Substances and mixtures which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases ................... 77 2-3-13 Oxidizing Liquids ................................................................................................................ 83 2-3-14 Oxidizing Solids .................................................................................................................. 86 2-3-15 Organic Peroxides ................................................................................................................ 89 2-3-16 Corrosive to Metals .............................................................................................................. 94 Part3 Health Hazards Guidance ....................................................................................... 97 3-1 Information and data available for classification .................................................................. 97 3-1-1 Sources of Information available for classification ............................................................... 97 3-1-2 Order of precedence when multiple data exist ..................................................................... 105 3-1-3 Management of information in special cases ....................................................................... 106 3-2 Classification of health hazards .......................................................................................... 109 3-2-1 Acute Toxicity ...................................................................................................................... 109 3-2-2 Skin Corrosion/Irritation ...................................................................................................... 122 3-2-3 Serious Eye Damage/Eye Irritation ..................................................................................... 133 3-2-4 Respiratory or Skin Sensitization......................................................................................... 143 3-2-5 Germ Cell Mutagenicity ...................................................................................................... 151 3-2-6 Carcinogenicity .................................................................................................................... 162 3-2-7 Reproductive Toxicity .......................................................................................................... 169 3-2-8 Specific Target Organ Toxicity-Single Exposure ................................................................. 179 3-2-9 Specific Target Organ Toxicity-Repeated Exposure ............................................................ 189 3-2-10 Aspiration Hazard .............................................................................................................. 198 Part4 Environmental Hazards Guidance ........................................................................ 203 4-1 Information available for classification .............................................................................. 203 4-1-1 Sources of Information available for classification ............................................................. 203 4-2 Classification of Hazardous to the Environment ................................................................ 212 4-2-1 Hazardous to the Aquatic Environment ............................................................................... 212 4-2-2 Hazardous to the ozone layer......................................................................................... 228 Appendix: ....................................................................................................................... 230 EU R-Phrases used in this guidance ........................................................................... 230 EU CLP H statements used in this guidance ............................................................. 233 Part1 Introduction 1-1 Regarding "GHS Classification Guidance" The “Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)” (hereinafter, abbreviated as UN GHS) was discussed in the UN for many years, and the Economic and Social Council held in July 2003 adopted a resolution to promote implementation of GHS worldwide, and individual countries are establishing systems to introduce GHS. In Japan, the government launched the GHS Inter-ministerial Committee1 in 2001, which began translating UN GHS-related documents into Japanese, exchanging information to establish GHS-related domestic laws, promoting the classification of substances in Japan, and implementing the GHS classification of substances requiring SDS under PRTR Law2, Industrial Safety and Health Law, Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Law, etc. (about