Product Safety

Proper management of chemicals

Chemicals Safety Management System

At the Toagosei Group, our first task at the product development stage is to conduct a safety examination. We also perform necessary safety tests when making notifications required by laws and regulations when a product falls under the category of a new chemical substance. We also make necessary responses to new substances in the inventory of each country.
At disaster prevention meetings held before test production or scaling up of production, we discuss the safety of materials handled and products, as well as disaster prevention during manufacturing. We check chronic effects as well as acute health hazards, such as the danger of chemical injury, through chemical substance risk assessments and also deliberate on compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, environmental impacts, and other matters.

Provision of Safety Information

We provide chemical product safety information using safety data sheets (SDS), product labels, yellow cards, and other means.
SDS are documents prepared for communicating detailed information related to chemical product handling methods and safety. We issue SDS to customers, sales agents, transportation companies, and other companies that handle the Group’s products. SDS for some products can be downloaded from the corporate website.
The revision of the system for the autonomous management of chemical substances has increased the number of substances subject to chemical substance risk assessment, and we are taking measures such as the development of SDS.
The mandatory provision of SDS and product labels in national languages in accordance with Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)* has spread in various countries around the world including Japan. We are creating and updating SDS and product labels as needed in response to such trend.
Many departments are involved to manage product information and appropriately communicate it to the supply chain. Members of the Technology and Production Administrative Division and the Supply Chain Management Division are engaged in information gathering, internal education, response to consultation and other tasks to support implementing departments.

*GHS: Globally Harmonized System (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals)

Green Procurement

We present information on the chemicals we offer to help our customers achieve green procurement, and we also provide information on chemSHERPA.

In order to provide environmentally friendly and reliable products, we have established "Green Procurement Guidelines" to control environmentally hazardous substances in raw and packaging materials, and conduct quality and environmental management surveys of our suppliers. We have a system in place to select raw materials that meet green procurement requirements from the product development stage.

*chemSHERPA: a scheme designed for the communication of information on chemical substances contained in products in the supply chain, released in October 2015 and in full use by companies since 2017.