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The International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSCs) offer essential health and safety information on chemicals to promote their safe use. They are intended to be used at the "shop floor" level by workers and employers in factories, agriculture, construction and other places of work, being particularly useful in less developed areas and in small and medium size enterprises. They are also designed to be part of education and training activities.

The Cards consist of a series of standard sentences summarizing health and safety information collected, verified and peer reviewed by internationally recognized scientists. The Cards have not legal status and may not reflect in all cases the detailed requirements included in national legislation.

The ICSCs provide information on the intrinsic hazards of specific chemicals together with first aid and fire-fighting measures, and information about precautions for spillage, disposal, storage, packaging, labelling and transport.

The ICSCs project is an undertaking of the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS). [More...]

The Cards have no legal status and may not reflect in all cases the detailed requirements included in national legislation.

The preparation of ICSCs is an ongoing process of writing and reviewing by a group of scientists coming from various IPCS participating institutions in different countries.

A fundamental feature of the ICSCs is that they are peer reviewed by a group of scientists. This is considered to be a significant asset of the Cards versus other packages of information on chemicals.

ICSCs are originally prepared (written and revised) in English and placed on the Web. Subsequently, national institutions translate the Cards from English into different languages.

ICSCs are available on the World Wide Web in different languages:

ORIGINAL
International English	US national English

TRANSLATIONS
Chinese Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Hindi Hungarian Italian	Japanese Korean Russian Spanish Swahili Thai Urdu Vietnamese

 

The ICSCs are also part of the SafeWork Bookshelf.

Related supplementary information includes:

• The list of EU Risk Phrases
• The list of EU Safety Phrases
• The list of EU Risk Notes
• The list of EU Danger Symbols
   
• The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
   
• The Compiler's Guide (as of November 2005) and
  the Appendices 1-8 describing the calculation methods.