Recent Developments on the “Measures on the Management of Physical Hazard Identification and Classification for Chemicals”

Measures on the administration of hazardous chemicals registration (a.k.a SAWS Order 53) has come into force on Aug 1^st, 2012, which stipulates that all the chemicals listed in the Catalogue of hazardous chemicals should get registered. SAWS Order 53 is not only limited to chemicals in the Catalogue, hazard identification for chemicals of uncertain hazards should be arranged by the registering companies by designating some accredited testing institutes. Chemicals determined to be hazardous need to be registered as well. To standardize the identification and classification work of physical hazards of chemicals, China SAWS drafted the “Measures on the management of physical hazard identification and classification for chemicals” and consulted the public prior to Jan 4^th, 2013.