SDS And Labels: A Case Study

1. Introduction
Lubricants are manufactured by blending various components (base oils, additives). Chemically, it is a mixture of chemicals and regulated as chemicals (Figure 11)).
In Japan, many laws regulating chemicals have been promulgated and executed, and sequentially revised depending on situations (Table 1).
Globally, after adoption of a global agenda for transition to sustainability in the 21st century (Agenda 21) at the UN Conference in 1992, management of chemicals has been reviewed worldwide along with adoptions of the Johannesburg agenda (2002) and the SAICAM (2006). In 2007, the EU enacted Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH rules2)), which required actions when exporting, manufacturing

2. SDS and GHS
2.1. SDS
SDS is an abbreviation for safety data sheet. In Japan it has been designated MSDS (material safety data sheet) but after the revision of JIS (JIS Z 7253:2012) its designation was to be harmonized to a global one, SDS. In supply chains it has become more important as a measure to communicate information on products from upstream companies to downstream ones. When selling products and providing trial products or those under development, provided SDSs and provision of labels are essential as a measure to provide product safety information to downstream users.
An SDS consists of 16 sections, a document summarizing hazard information, handling, emergency actions, related laws/regulations of a chemical. Details of respective sections in SDS are given as below according to JIS Z 7253. SDSs overseas are required to have respective sections described complying with GHS-related laws/regulations of the respective countries.
Section 1. Identification
Describes name of the chemical and its supplier

of Release Amounts of Specific Chemical Substances in the Environment and Promotion of Improvements to the Management Thereof, the Industrial Safety and Health Act and Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Act, and the Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Act (Table 3). Those three acts were revised around 2000 to require to provide users with information on properties and handlings of the product (SDS) when traders sell and transfer the chemical. On the contrary, if a product is not covered by those three acts, no SDS provision is required. However, chemicals containing 0.1% or more of mineral oil(s) should issue such a document according to the Act on Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of Specific Chemical Substances in the Environment and Promotion of Improvements to the Management Thereof, and therefore for most of lubricant products it is required to provide SDS. We have a policy to provide SDSs for all the lubricant