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Use chemicals? These tools will help you

Companies who register chemicals

Use map package

This package consists of 4 templates which provide information on how chemicals are generally used in a sector. This information can help registrants to characterise the risks of their substances and provide appropriate safety advice.

Link: Use map package

What the chemicals are used for

The ‘Use maps’ show the most common uses of chemicals in a particular sector. Check out the use map for your sector to make life easier when informing your suppliers about what you and your customers use their chemical for. If there isn’t one for your sector, or if your uses are not covered, have a word with your sector organisation.

Link: What the chemicals are used for

How your product gets into the environment

Your product may get into the environment during its life cycle. Your supplier needs to know about this, so that they can assess the safety and make sure that the advice they give is appropriate for those uses.

Link: How your product gets into the environment

How workers use your product

Your supplier needs to know how workers use your products so that they can assess the safety and make sure that the advice they give is appropriate for those uses.

Link: How workers use your product

How consumers use your product

Your supplier needs to know how consumers use your products so that they can assess the safety and provide appropriate safety advice for those uses.

Link: How consumers use your product

Companies who use chemicals

Extended safety data sheets

Safety data sheets and exposure scenarios are there to help employers, site managers and product safety managers to ensure the safe use of chemicals and to protect the environment from their toxic effects.

Link: Extended safety data sheets

How to use a chemical safely

Templates showing what should be in an exposure scenario.

Link: How to use a chemical safely

Standard phrases you can use

Standard phrases that you can use in your exposure scenario. Using standard phrases makes life easier for you and your customers. Available in catalogue and XML format.

Link: Standard phrases you can use

Understanding safety data sheets

What they are, what they contain, and how they relate to exposure scenarios.

Link: Understanding safety data sheets

Finding the most hazardous ingredients in your mixture

If you produce mixtures, you need to know how people are exposed to them, and which of the ingredients are the most hazardous in terms of inhalation, contact with the skin, ingestion and for the environment. Then you can advise your customers how to use the mixture as a whole safely. This methodology helps you to work it out.

Link: Finding the most hazardous ingredients in your mixture

Advice on using mixtures safely

A template to help you advise your customers on how to use your mixture safely.

Link: Advice on using mixtures safely