GHS chemical labelling architecture
A database-driven architecture designed for a scientific organisation to produce colour GHS labels from controlled product and hazard information.
The requirement
A scientific organisation needed a more controlled approach to producing colour GHS chemical labels.
GHS labels combine hazard pictograms, a signal word, and hazard and precautionary statements, all of which must match the product’s classification. When labels are built by hand, every product and every classification change is another chance for the label and the classification to drift apart.
The architecture
The design was a database-driven labelling architecture centred on three things:
- Controlled product and hazard information, held as data rather than typed onto labels
- Centrally managed templates that assemble each label from that data
- Industrial colour label printers, positioned within the operational environment
Workflow design and compliance considerations ran through all three.
Why it was designed this way
When hazard information lives in controlled data, a classification change is made once and reaches every label that carries it. Printing in colour within the operation means each label is produced complete, pictograms included, from the current data.
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