My company receives raw materials in for testing an d traditionally we have put a label on the boxes to indicate any potential health/handling hazards, for example flammable, corrosive, oxidizer, etc.   I believe this system started years ago because it was felt that analysts who test the raw materials may not check the MSDS, althoug h we tell them they are required to do so.   (Most of our raw mater ials are not hazardous or are only minimally so)

I do not like the current labels we are using and am thinking about seeing if I can obtain the nine different GHS pictogram labels for Hazard classes to use instead.  I think they are better and cov er a wider range of potential hazards.  I am wondering if anyone else is doing this and how they feel about the GHS pictograms.   I do not kn ow as much about GHS as I should, but my understanding is that these pictogram s will be on MSDSs in the US somewhere down the road. 

Pat Peifer

Project Manager, Health Safety and Training

West Pharmaceutical Services