Note: This feature is available only to administrators and to inventory assistants with permission to edit product data.
Hazard classifications are categories of pictograms, codes, and terms that label and classify a range of chemical hazards: Corrosive, Explosive, Carcinogen, and so on. When you edit a product's hazard classifications, you select and assign the specific classification items that apply to the product's hazards. You can assign classification items from a number of different hazard classification systems, such as the Canadian WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System), the UN's GHS (Globally Harmonized System), and many more. You can also remove assigned classification items.
Users can view a product's assigned hazard classifications on its Hazard Information display, which is opened using the information (
) icon in the upper right of the Product Information page. If you assign any GHS Pictograms or GHS Signal Words to a product, these are always displayed in the upper right corner of the Product Information page (one Signal Word and up to four Pictograms).
Note: Depending on the label types available in your system, editing a product's hazard classifications may change the data shown on its labels. See Generating Labels for a Product for details.
To edit a product's hazard classifications:
Starting at the Product Information page
Click the EDIT button at the top of the display.
Note: This button appears only when you are logged in as a) an administrator, or b) an inventory assistant with permission to edit product data.
The Information Administration page opens, showing the areas of product data you can edit.
In the Modify Indexes area, click Hazards.
The Hazard Classifications display opens, showing the product's current hazard classifications in the Assigned list.
Edit the product's hazard ratings as desired:
To assign a hazard classification item: In the Available list, click the expand (
) icon of the classification whose item(s) you want to assign. Under this classification, select the desired item(s) and click the assign (>>) button.
Note: If an assigned item contains a bracketed blank ( [___] ), fill in this blank with an entry appropriate to the product: Select the item in the Assigned list, enter an appropriate entry in the field that appears, and click Save.
To remove an assigned hazard classification item: In the Assigned list, click the expand () icon of the classification whose item(s) you want to remove. Under this category, select the desired item(s) and click the remove (<<) button.
Note: If you need to refer to the product's MSDS, click [View MSDS] in the upper right to open the product's MSDS in a new window.
Each assignment/removal is automatically saved. If you assign or remove any GHS Pictograms or GHS Signal Words, these changes may be reflected in the hazard information displayed in the upper right of the Product Information page.
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