The nine GHS pictograms.
What each hazard symbol means and which hazard classes put it on a label.
GHS01 Exploding bomb
Signal word: Danger / Warning
- Explosives
- Self-reactive substances and mixtures
- Organic peroxides
GHS02 Flame
Signal word: Danger / Warning
- Flammable gases, aerosols, liquids and solids
- Self-reactive substances and mixtures
- Pyrophoric and self-heating substances
- Substances that emit flammable gas in contact with water
- Organic peroxides
GHS03 Flame over circle
Signal word: Danger / Warning
- Oxidising gases, liquids and solids
GHS04 Gas cylinder
Signal word: Warning
- Gases under pressure (compressed, liquefied, dissolved, refrigerated)
GHS05 Corrosion
Signal word: Danger / Warning
- Corrosive to metals
- Skin corrosion
- Serious eye damage
GHS06 Skull and crossbones
Signal word: Danger
- Acute toxicity, categories 1 to 3 (fatal or toxic)
GHS07 Exclamation mark
Signal word: Warning
- Acute toxicity, category 4 (harmful)
- Skin and eye irritation
- Skin sensitisation
- Respiratory tract irritation and narcotic effects
- Hazardous to the ozone layer (EU CLP)
GHS08 Health hazard
Signal word: Danger / Warning
- Respiratory sensitisation
- Germ cell mutagenicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Reproductive toxicity
- Specific target organ toxicity (single and repeated exposure)
- Aspiration hazard
GHS09 Environment
Signal word: Warning
- Hazardous to the aquatic environment (acute category 1, chronic categories 1 and 2)
The diamond numbers above are placeholders for the official artwork, which SDS Desk prints on your labels and SDS. Pictograms follow from classification, so look up what a code means with the H-statement lookup and see the full label requirements.
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