On 1st June 2015 new CLP regulations came into force. The old Hazard symbols were replaced by new pictograms. My organisation has over 50 buildings, where stores, cleaners cupboards and flammables cabinets are quite common and the old hazard symbols are displayed. My question to all you chemical experts is …….. do we have to replace every sign across all sites in order that we comply with the new legislation?

Any information would be welcome.

I didn't think safety signs were part of CLP unless on packaging.

LB

Extract from Safety Signs & Signals Guidance, L 64 Third edition July 2015

Using signs to mark areas, rooms and enclosures
62 It is important to mark those areas, rooms or enclosures used for the storage of significant quantities of hazardous substances or mixtures by a suitable warning sign, unless the warning labels on individual containers are clearly visible from outside or nearby. Note that marking requirements for explosives stores are dealt with in the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005

63 Where stores are being used for hazardous chemicals or mixtures they should be indicated by the relevant warning sign taken from paragraph 3.2 of Part II of Schedule 1 of the Regulations (the yellow triangle black pictogram warning signs). If there is no equivalent warning sign in these provisions then the relevant hazard pictogram from Annex V to the CLP Regulation must be used. Stores containing anumber of different substances may be indicated by the ‘general danger’ warning sign.

64 The signs or labels referred to above must be positioned, as appropriate, near
storage areas or on doors leading into storage rooms.


To be accurate, European Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures came into force on 20 January 2009 in all EU Member States, including the UK..

The CLP Regulation has applied to "substances" that are placed on the market since 1 December 2010.

It was not mandatory to use the CLP classification system to classify "chemical mixtures" (preparations) until 1 June 2015.

There are certain limited circumstances where these transitional arrangements for substances and preparations/mixtures can be extended: the re-labelling and re-packaging of substances and mixtures which are already labelled and packaged and in the supply chain (‘on the shelves’) on the above compliance dates may be postponed until 1 December 2012 and 1 June 2017 respectively.