Has the list of hazardous chemicals been updated?

The official version hasn’t been released yet; everything else is just rumor at the moment!

It probably hasn’t been changed yet, but it’s likely to happen soon – in recent years, especially this year, there seem to be an especially large number of new regulations and standards being introduced.

The confirmed news is that the new version of the Regulations on the Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals will come into effect on December 1 this year. The accompanying “Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals” will be released by the end of this year. The new version of the catalog has seen the number of substances increase from 3,800 to over 7,000. In other words, the scope of regulation under the new hazardous chemicals regulations has been expanded. The core of the new regulations is to require our companies to update or create SDS and labels that comply with GHS standards, as well as to register hazardous chemicals. Therefore, I urge colleagues in the chemical industry to pay close attention to news in this area and take action as early as possible.

Even being in the Work Safety Supervision Bureau, I haven’t really heard much about it.

The version update is scheduled for the end of this year to the beginning of next year. This year, departments such as the Work Safety Administration held discussions regarding the revision of this list. Meeting of the Leading Group and Expert Group for the Revision of the Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals Held in Beijing – Website of the State Administration of Work Safety, 2011/07/26. Source: Third Department for Supervision and Management, State Administration of Work Safety. On July 21, a meeting of the leading group and expert group for the revision of the Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals was held at the **State Administration of Work Safety. Entrusted by Sun Huashan, Deputy Director of the State Administration for Work Safety and Head of the Leading Group for the formulation and revision of the Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals, Wang Haoshui, Director of the Third Supervision Department of the State Administration for Work Safety and Deputy Head of the leading group, presided over the meeting. **The heads of the relevant departments from the 10 member units of the leadership group – namely, the State Administration for Work Safety, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and the Civil Aviation Administration – as well as all members of the expert group attended the meeting. The meeting discussed the formal establishment of a leading group and an expert panel for the compilation and revision of the Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals, and reviewed and approved in principle the Measures for the Compilation and Revision of the Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals. The expert group listened to a report presented by the Chemical Registration Center of the **General Administration of Work Safety on the work related to the formulation and revision of the List of Hazardous Chemicals, and discussed the hazard information of chemicals to be included in the List, data sources, as well as the Sample List of Hazardous Chemicals. The meeting highly recognized the extensive preliminary work carried out by the **General Administration of Work Safety in the formulation and revision of the Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals. The various member units expressed their willingness to actively participate in this effort in order to jointly advance the formulation and revision of the Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals. The meeting required that, as the next step, methods for formulating and revising the \"Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals\" should be determined as soon as possible, working rules for the expert group should be established, a timeline should be set, and the work progress accelerated so that the \"Catalogue of Hazardous Chemicals\" can be published at the earliest possible time. This will provide support and assurance for the implementation of the \"Regulations on the Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals\" (State Council Order No. 591) and its accompanying regulations. Note: Article 3 of the Regulations on the Safety Management of Hazardous Chemicals (Decree No. 591 of the State Council) stipulates that: “The list of hazardous chemicals shall be determined, published, and adjusted from time to time by the department under the State Council responsible for work safety supervision and management, in conjunction with the competent departments of the State Council in charge of industry and information technology, public security, environmental protection, health, quality supervision, inspection, and quarantine, transportation, railways, civil aviation, and agriculture, based on the standards for identifying and classifying the hazardous properties of chemicals.” ”