Precautionary Labeling of Packaged Petroleum Products

摘要

Throughout industry and commerce there is a general need for improvement in communication to users concerning health and safety aspects of products and their proper use. Labelling, which for the purposes of this report means all methods capable of providing information on a container, should not be regarded as the sole method of hazard communication to users. Provision of advisory publications concerning the safe use of products is also valuable. The first part of this report reviews European legislation and labelling systems and shows a variety of regulations and systems implementing different concepts of consumer and/or worker protection. A number of problem areas arise when applying EEC Directives on precautionary labelling to petroleum products. CONCAWE has studied the situation and the second part of this report describes a system to provide appropriate advice for the safe use of a product in addition to drawing the attention of the users to its potential hazards.