The Gold (M)SDS is a Chemwatch independent authored material Safety Data Sheet. Any material that has a Gold (M)SDS in the Chemwatch collection (database) will be available across the entire products packages depending on licence agreements. Chemwatch conducts calculations of up to 400 datapoints and the expert reviews are conducted for each chemical or product. All regulatory classification data, transport data is referenced to 100+ countries and available in 47 languages. 


Common attributes of the Gold (M)SDS


  • Colour codes depicting the Chemwatch Hazard Alert Code - which shows the level of the hazard based on five categories; flammability, toxicity, body contact, reactivity and chronic.
  • Each section header is colour code as per the hazard rating
  • Issue Date 
  • Document jurisdictional settings as per legislative instrument applied and active country
  • GHS/Local/REACH
  • HTML format (standard) and PDF format (printing or saving or emailing the report)




Hazard Rating and Colour Code Summary


Hazard Category

Hazard Rating

Hazard Level

Colour Code

Nature of Hazard Substance

 

Flammability

 

Toxicity

 

Body Contact

 

Reactivity

 

Chronic

0/Min

Non

 

 Grey 

Non Hazardous Substance 

1

Low

 

 Blue

Low Hazardous Substance 

2

Moderate

 

 

 Yellow

Moderate Hazardous Substance 

3

High

 

 Orange

Highly Hazardous Substance 

4

Extreme

 

 Red

Extremely Hazardous Substance 


Furthermore to the availability of a Chemwatch Gold (M)SDS; the following reports are then made available;


MSDS and Label Panel Button Type of Report  Report Description
Mini (M)SDS One page summary report

One page summary report which is also colour coded the same as the Gold MSDS hazard alert code rating

Graphical representation of data

Structured in 6 sections
Labels Label document templates

Label document templates designed by Chemwatch as default templates. Optional custom templates that are designated as 'User Defined" tempates
Emergency Emergency reports There are various types of emergency reports available; first aid, spills, fire fighting, CHINA, SOP, PPE, Toxicological, Transport ERG (Emergency Response Guide), DGTECSA (Transport card in South Africa)