Suitability – Limit GHS labelling on final product

How do I add suitability constraints which limit GHS Labelling on the final product?

Suitability Constraints are compliance rules which are applied when you perform a Suitability Check. They are usually used to check compliance to regulatory and customer specific rules on final product labelling and ingredient use /non-use. CLP is the EU version of GHS, so setup follows the same principles.

Suitability Constraints are added in ‘Manage Suitability Constraints’, press ‘Add’ then:

1. Enter the Party who is the target of the check. This can be a customer, supplier, TO or party group.
2. Enter a comment which expresses the intention of the suitability check (optional but useful when looking back at potentially many checks)
3. Chose item classes which are relevant for the check, or make no choice if you want the check to apply to all item classes
4. Enter applications which are relevant for the check, or make no choice if you want the check to apply to all applications
5. Choose an appropriate condition and specify the circumstances

A few examples follow.

Note: You should add the suitability check to an appropriate party. If you think the suitability checks will be common to many customers you can add a regulatory party to which you can apply multiple checks (e.g. you could add a party group called ‘Exclamation pictogram allowed on final product’). You can then associate many customers with this party group and this will apply the checks to those customers (to do this, modify the customer, go to ‘related Parties’ tab, and add the regulatory party group as a ‘Parties Belonged to’ party.

As GHS labelling does not apply to all final product types (food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) you may wish to set up an application ‘GHS Products’ (or ‘CLP Products’) to which the individual applications are associated by placing them in ‘Belonging Applications’. The new application, which represents the group should then be used in the Constraints.

To limit the final product label to avoid Aspiration Hazard (AH 1) hazard and the exploding chest pictogram

1. AH 1 = is the property to target as this is a TFV property
2. Add a suitability check as follows:
   1. Condition: Property Maximum
   2. Property: AH 1=
   3. Limit: 0.9999
   4. In Application = Tick (yes)

To limit the final product to avoid an Environmental pictogram

1. When you have cumulative properties like environmental hazards you need to target the lowest contributing property for the outcome you want. With environmental hazards EH C1 impacts EH C2 impacts EH C3. If you want no labelled pictogram (but the environmentally hazardous statement which accompanies EH C3 is ok) then the lowest property to target is EH C2. You should also include a suitability check on EH A1 just in case there are materials with a short term but not long term environmental hazards (unusual but can happen)
2. Add a suitability check as follows:
   1. Condition: Property Maximum
   2. Property: EH C2= and EH A1= (you can add multiple properties to a suitability check)
   3. Limit: 0.9999
   4. In Application = Tick (yes)

To limit the final product label to avoid Skin Corrosion hazard pictogram

1. SCI 1A= SCI 1B= and SCI 1C= all need to be targeted
2. Add a suitability check as follows:
   1. Condition: Property Maximum
   2. Property: SCI 1A= SCI 1B= and SCI 1C=
   3. Limit: 0.9999
   4. In Application = Tick (yes)

To limit the final product label to avoid Eye Corrosion hazard pictogram

1. Target EDI 1=
2. Add a suitability check as follows:
   1. Condition: Property Maximum
   2. Property: EDI 1
   3. Limit: 0.9999
   4. In Application = Tick (yes)

To limit the final product label to avoid Carcinogenic Human Health pictogram

1. CAR 1A=, CAR 1B=, CAR 2= all need to be targeted
2. Add a suitability check as follows:
   1. Condition: Property Maximum
   2. Property: CAR 1A=, CAR 1B= and CAR 2=
   3. Limit: 0.9999
   4. In Application = Tick (yes)

Add remaining properties as appropriate for your industry and the hazards which are relevant.

You could add all these checks to a single Suitability Constraint but they are best separated because when you perform a suitability check and generate a report this approach gives more useful information about compliance.

In all cases check you should test the checks to ensure they are working in the way you require.