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The new Korean GHS regulation "고용노동부 공고 제 2020-247 호" H and P codes are explained in detail

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On June 8, 2020, the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL 2020-247) issued a revised draft of the GHS Classification, Labeling and SDS Guidelines for comment until June 29, 2020. This revision covers MSDS, CBI(Trade secrets), concentration limits, and GHS classification. Today, I will mainly talk about the classification changes of MSDS and some requirements of MSDS.

Old standard:고용노동부 고시 제2016-19호

New standard:고용노동부 공고 제2020 - 247호

Effective date of the new standard:“1(시행일)  고시는 2021 1 16일부터 시행한다.”(January 16, 2021)reference version: UN GHS version 6 and above.

고용노동부 고시 2016-19(旧)

고용노동부 공고 2020 - 247(新)

Note: The new standard has added a transport icon in addition to the GHS icon in all categories. According to the modification of the previous GHS classification standard, "flammable gas" has added category 3, and its H and P codes have been increased accordingly. In addition, the code such as "preventive measures" and "incident response" has also been adjusted and modified.

Note: Added the "Acute Toxicity, Category 5" category module, adding the corresponding H and P codes to indicate the official use of this category module.

Note: Added "Severe Eye Injury/Eye Irritation, Category 2A/2B" category module with corresponding H and P codes.

Note: New classification risk description, corresponding to the previous new classification.

Summary: Risk description and preventive measures that H and P code modification and increase more than the above content, the above is just an example to illustrate, some are modified, some are increased, corresponding to the previously increased classification, and then in the standard also added the transportation icon, easy to query.