International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products (AISE)

Gathering storm

GHS It may be true that GHS is of greater import to manufacturers and shippers of chemicals than it is to logistics service providers, but everyone in the supply chain should be aware of the direction of discussions by the GHS experts as some issues may well impact the transport regulations

Explosion aftermath

Sticking to their guns

GHS The decisions taken by the GHS experts can often affect the transport regulations and those in the transport sector are keeping a close eye on its deliberations on corrosivity criteria. At their second meeting of 2011, the GHS experts gave little ground on this potentially awkward requirement

Road Signs in Europe

The road less travelled

ROAD At its last session, WP15 had second thoughts about a number of provisions adopted only two months before by the joint meeting. There is a risk that some of these decisions will result in further disharmony between ADR and other transport regulations, if only temporarily

Potters Group forklift truck transporting goods

Don't forget to write

GHS Little of any substance was decided at the first meeting of the GHS Sub-committee for this new biennium. However, several correspondence groups reported back and have been sent off with new instructions.

Storage Terminal Explosion Aftermath

Problems, problems...

MULTIMODAL Regulators in all the modal authorities are finding problems in aligning the provisions for environmentally hazardous substances, spurred by changes originating in GHS.

Road Tanker on Construction Site

Head to head

GHS Clarification of some problematic areas was agreed by the GHS experts at their final session of the 2009/2010 biennium but they may find it harder to deal with some more contentious problems during the coming two years

Harmony within reach

GHS The ambition to establish and implement a globally harmonised system for chemical classification and labelling is nearing fruition.

Opinion formers

MULTIMODAL As is traditional, the first meeting of the UN TDG Sub-committee for the new biennium reached few conclusions.

The lost chord

MULTIMODAL Total harmonisation in the regulations that touch on the transport of dangerous goods seems as far away as ever. It is not only the modal provisions that keep drifting out of reach – GHS has now introduced another variable into the equation

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