Europe amends five key worker health, safety directives
Review is “painfully slow going”
The European Commission has announced plans to amend five health and safety at work Directives, in order to align them with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), but critics charge that the changes won’t make workers any safer.
The new rules for classification and labelling of chemicals were laid down in a 2008 EU Regulation which aims to adapt EU legislation to the GHS before June 2015. GHS is a system devised by the United Nations to see that chemicals everywhere in the world are labelled with the same hazard pictograms.