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an SDS can download the GHS pictograms from www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/pictograms.html. Pictograms should meet the following size specification to avoid stretching or having oversized pictograms on the SDS:
       * >1x1 cm² and <2x2 cm

The name of the pictogram should also be provided, which are defined in the tables in Appendix C (for example, flame, skull and crossbones).

Dangerous goods class labels may also be used; however, graphical elements do not need be duplicated.

3.3 Section 3 – Composition and Information on Ingredients
The ingredient(s) of the hazardous chemical must be identified. This includes the identification of impurities and stabilising additives that contribute to the classification of the hazardous chemical.

Disclosure of ingredient names
The chemical identity of an ingredient must be disclosed on an SDS in accordance with Schedule 8 of the WHS Regulations (Disclosure of ingredients). In some cases, a generic name may be used.
Ingredients that are not classified as hazardous but have an exposure standard and which are present above 1% should be mentioned in the SDS if it is likely that they might be released under standard storage and application conditions.
Disclosure of ingredient names is not required by the WHS Regulations for those ingredients that meet only physicochemical and/or environmental hazard classifications, or for non-hazardous ingredients.
There is no requirement to disclose the identity of ingredients for the following GHS health hazard categories because they fall outside the scope of the WHS Regulations:
    * Acute toxicity – Category 5 (oral, dermal and inhalation)
    * Skin corrosion/irritation – Category 3
    * Serious eye damage/eye irritation – Category 2B
    * Aspiration hazard – Category 2
    * Aquatic toxicity (all categories)
    * Flammable gas – Category 2
    * Ozone depletion.

Use of Generic Names[5]
Generic names may be used in an SDS if the identity of an ingredient is genuinely commercially confidential, and if:
    * the ingredient is in any of the following health hazard categories:
          + Acute toxicity - Category 4 (oral, dermal, inhalation)
          + Aspiration hazard - Category 1
          + Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 2A
          + Skin corrosion/irritation - Category 2
          + Specific target organ toxicity (single exposure) - Category 3;
    * the ingredient does not cause the correct classification of the hazardous chemical to include any other hazard class or category; and
    * an exposure standard for the ingredient has not been established.
A guide for selecting generic names for ingredients is included in Appendix D.

Disclosure of proportions of ingredients
Where the chemical identity or generic name of an ingredient that makes up a hazardous chemical is disclosed, the proportions of the ingredients must also be disclosed in an SDS.
For multiple ingredients, proportions should be listed in descending order by mass or