(Updated: November 2025)

Version is a way to easily identified identify any update of the content of the document to new data or an a regulation update or any other changes. SDS version update need to be is defined by the SDS Writer as a major or a minor version.

Contents

Contents

• Major / Minor version - Criteria and Impact
• Major version
• Minor version
• SDS Generation Process

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Major / Minor version - Criteria and Impact Major / Minor version

- Criteria and Impact

Major / Minor version - Criteria and Impact

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Major version Major version

Major version

Some key changes in the safety data sheet should

trigger a major version of the document. They are: 

• Section 1 :

• Usages, supplier

• data,

• emergency telephone

• number 
• Section 2 :

• Classification 
• Section 3:

• Change of the hazardous ingredients present in the product and to be reported on the SDS (new ingredient or classification)
• Section 14:

• Change of product transport classification

• Introduction of a new Exposure Scenario (EU only)

• Change of authorization and/or restriction number in EU versions (S1&S15)
• Regarding Section 15, SDS writers must evaluate if the changes are important enough to be marked as Major.

If it is a major update the reason MUST be described in the section 16 of the SDS.

Generation of a Major version will be identified by an increment of the version number by an integer, e.g.: from 2.3 to 3.0

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The impact in case of a Major version of the SDS, is that it will trigger for Subsequent SDS shipping in SAP-EHS.

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Minor version Minor version

Minor version

All other

changes without impact on

labeling and does not

require re-issue to former recipients.
Generation of a

minor version will be identified by an increment by a decimal, e.g.: from 2.3 to 2.4

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With a minor update of the SDS, the document is updated, but this change will not automatically trigger a new SDS shipping for the customers.

Resume of the meaning of the number of the version:

V 1.0   => First version of the document

V 2.3 to V 2.4=> Update of the document with a minor version

V 2.3 to V 3.0=> Update of the document with a Major version

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SDS Generation Process SDS Generation Process

SDS Generation Process

In the mass creation report, I have it is needed to choose whether the document will be a minor or major modification, implying a minor/major version of the SDS. 

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