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