Welcome to the EHS Glossary. You will find here some abbreviations and their meanings.

  • EHS: Environment Health & Safety
  • Enterprise: Mainly GBU but split in 3 categories (Commercial Product, R&D Product, Confidential Product).
  • GHS: Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
  • WHIMS:  Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
  • GLM: Global Label Management
  • CAS: Chemical Abstracts Services. Single number registered to the Chemical Abstracts Service Database.
  • SDS: Safety Data Sheet. This document is organized in chapters, e.g. Product Identification, Composition, Hazards Identification.
  • SDS - Asia Pacific: Safety Data Sheet applicable for Asian countries, e.g. China (SDS_CN), HongKong (SDS_HK), TaiWan (SDS_TW), Japan (SDS_JP), Korea (SDS_KR), Singapore (SDS_SG), India (SDS_IN), Malaysia (SDS_MY), Thailand (SDS_TH), NewZealand (SDS_NZ), Australia (SDS_AU).
  • SDS -  Europe: Safety Data Sheet applicable for European countries.
  • PDS: Product Data Sheet
  • TDS: Technical Data Sheet
  • Label - Asia Pacific: Label for Asian countries.
  • FISPQ - Latin America: Label for Latin American countries.
  • Transport Label (TR_LB): Template of Transport Label for Products
  • Transport Sheet (TR_DG): Transport Classification synthesis for all Regulation
  • TREMCARD: Transport Emergency Cards
  • TRM_BR: Brazilian Tremcard
  • TRM_JP: Japan Yellow Card
  • TRM_KR: Korean Safety Card