REACH

Reference to ExxonMobil MSDSs

Asset Management, Europe AfricaErik FlorusDEC 2011

REACH is the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use (EC 1907/2006). It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances. The law entered into force on 1 June 2007.

It applies to most products in commerce and most ExxonMobil products.

The goal is to provide a greater level of protection for humans and the environment by ensuring that proper information on storage, handling, chemical make-up and potential exposure scenarios are easily available. The intent of REACH is to apply the authorization process to ban the use of substances of very high concern. Unfortunately, the regulation requires a high level of administrative effort – for all products irrespective their possible threat to human health or the environment.

The REACH Regulation places greater responsibility on industry to manage the risks from chemicals and to provide safety information on the substances. Manufacturers and importers are required to gather information on the properties of their chemical substances, which will allow their safe handling, and to register the information in a central database run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki.

Companies can find explanations of REACH on the ECHA website, in particular in the guidance documents, and can contact national helpdesks.

The new MSDS contsists of 16 sections and exposure scenarios for specific uses of substances that are classified as dangerous.

Exposure scenario’s are sets of conditions that describe how substances are manufactured or used during their life-cycle and how the manufacturer or importer controls, or recommends to control, exposures of humans and the environment.

The exposure scenarios must include the appropriate risk management measures and operational conditions that, when properly implemented, ensure that the risks from the uses of the substance are adequately controlled.

Exposure scenarios need to be developed to cover all “identified uses” which are the manufacturers’ or importers’ own uses, and uses which are made known to the manufacturer or importer by his downstream users and which the manufacturer or importer includes in his assessment.

This information can be valuable reference for contractors to include in their JSA’s

ExxonMobil MSDS

You can find the MSDSs for selected Exxon, Esso and Mobil products at the repository web site : www.msds.exxonmobil.com/psims/psims.aspx

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Result – list of all relevant ExxonMobil products (Fuels and Lubes)

ExxonMobil MSDS – table of content

SECTION 1 PRODUCT AND COMPANY IDENTIFICATION SECTION 2 HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION

CLASSIFICATION / PHYSICAL / CHEMICAL HAZARDS / HEALTH HAZARDS / ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS

SECTION 3 COMPOSITION / INFORMATION ON INGREDIENTS SECTION 4 FIRST AID MEASURES

INHALATION / SKIN CONTACT / EYE CONTACT / INGESTION / NOTE TO PHYSICIAN

PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS WHICH MAY BE AGGRAVATED BY EXPOSURE

SECTION 5 FIRE FIGHTING MEASURES EXTINGUISHING MEDIA / FIRE FIGHTING / FLAMMABILITY

PROPERTIES SECTION 6 ACCIDENTAL RELEASE MEASURES

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES / PROTECTIVE MEASURES / SPILL MANAGEMENT / ENVIRONMENTAL PRECAUTION

ExxonMobil MSDS – table of content

SECTION 7 HANDLING AND STORAGE SECTION 8 EXPOSURE CONTROLS / PERSONAL

PROTECTION EXPOSURE LIMIT VALUES / ENGINEERING CONTROLS /

PERSONAL PROTECTION / ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROLS SECTION 9 PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES SECTION 10 STABILITY AND REACTIVITY SECTION 11 TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION SECTION 12 ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION

ECOTOXICITY / MOBILITY / PERSISTENCE AND DEGRADABILITY / ECOLOGICAL DATA

SECTION 13 DISPOSAL CONSIDERATIONS DISPOSAL RECOMMENDATIONS / REGULATORY DISPOSAL

INFORMATION

ExxonMobil MSDS – table of content

SECTION 14 TRANSPORT INFORMATION SECTION 15 REGULATORY INFORMATION

CLASSIFICATION / EU LABELING: REGULATORY STATUS AND APPLICABLE LAWS AND

REGULATIONS SECTION 16 OTHER INFORMATION

KEY TO THE RISK CODES CONTAINED IN SECTION 2 AND 3 OF THIS DOCUMENT (for information only):

REVISIONS DISCLAIMER ANNEXES – SCENARIO’s