Glossary
Updating safety data sheets (SDS) for substances

Risk management measures

Any action, equipment or parameter involved in the production/use of the substance which aims to control or reduce exposure of humans or the environment.

Substance

A chemical element and its compounds in their natural state or obtained by a manufacturing process, including any additive necessary to preserve its stability and any impurity resulting from the process used, but excluding any solvent which can be separated without affecting the stability of the substance or modifying its composition.