Six elements on a shipped container
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Where the standard applies, a shipped container has six required elements
A product identifier. A signal word. Hazard statements. Pictograms. Precautionary statements. And the name, United States address and United States telephone number of the manufacturer, importer or other responsible party.
The sixth element is more specific than it looks
A U.S. address and a U.S. telephone number. So the contact has to be reachable domestically, which is a requirement about who can be called rather than about who made the thing.
The first five have to match an appendix
The information must be in accordance with Appendix C for each hazard class and associated hazard category, prominently displayed, and in English, with other languages permitted in addition where appropriate.
And then one paragraph adds a layout requirement
The signal word, the hazard statements and the pictograms must be located together on the label, tag or mark. Three of the six elements are required to sit in one place.
Which no other spine in this library does
Other rules require a panel, a prominence, a type size, a side of a label, or a position on a garment. This one requires that three specific items be grouped, so a reader meets them as a unit.
The reason is readable from the elements themselves
A pictogram without its signal word is a symbol with no severity attached, and a hazard statement without the pictogram is text that may not be read. Together they carry one message.
Two categories of hazard are explicitly left off the container
Hazards not otherwise classified, and hazards identified and classified under paragraph (d)(1)(ii), do not have to be addressed on the container. So the label is not a complete hazard inventory by design.
Workplace labeling is a separate and looser requirement
A container in the workplace may carry either the shipped-container information or a product identifier plus words, pictures, symbols or a combination providing at least general information about the hazards.
Which is the only place this library has seen a two-tier label
A full specification for the container that leaves one employer, and a reduced one for the container that stays, on the reasoning that other information is immediately available to employees on site.
And none of it attaches to a container on a shelf
The requirement attaches to whoever ships a hazardous chemical. Buying a jar neither transfers nor discharges it, and no page here suggests otherwise.