I'm at the IOSH conference in Telford (globetrotter me) and just sat through a good presentation on the REACH chemicals regulation by Dr Ross Fielding of Harman Technology who knows his stuff and, unusually for this topic, didn't hide behind the letter of the Regulation but talked about its likely implications for health and safety practitioners.
But his most interesting point wasn't actually about REACH but the UN's GHS proposal for a global system for labelling chemicals. GHS is pretty certain to be phased in by 2015 with one of the phases involving running the new labelling standard alongside the existing one.
Karman pointed out this means that this means that all safety data sheets will have to be replaced at least twice in the next seven years.
"Any significant change triggers a new COSHH risk assessment," he said. "And a change to the safety data sheet is a significant change."
So that will give COSHH dutyholders something to keep them busy.
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