An ICSC summarizes essential health and safety information on chemicals for their use at the "shop floor" level by workers and employers in factories, agriculture, construction and other work places.

ICSCs are not legally binding documents, but consist of a series of standard phrases, mainly summarizing health and safety information collected, verified and peer reviewed by internationally recognized experts, taking into account advice from manufacturers and Poison Control Centres. [More...]

The ICSCs are available on the World Wide Web in many languages:

Original
international English (1613 ICSCs as of December 2007)	US national English
Translations
Chinese Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Hindi Hungarian Italian	Japanese Korean Russian Spanish Swahili Thai Urdu Vietnamese

(Translations exist on paper in other languages; a directory of these is under construction.)

The international English ICSCs are also part of the SafeWork Bookshelf collection.

Related supplementary information on our site includes:

• the list of European Union Risk Phrases (updated by ATP 28 in August 2001)
      see also the official, multilingual EC directive
• the list of EU Safety Phrases (updated by ATP 28 in August 2001)
      see also the official, multilingual EC directive
• the list of EU Risk Notes
• the list of EU Danger Symbols
   
• the complete Compiler's Guide (as of November 2005) and
  the Appendices 1-8 describing the calculation methods.