Global Safety Compliance

In a world driven by a powerful global workforce, keeping them safe is not just a necessity but crucial. Legend Safety is proud to be known to having a positive effect on global workplace safety. Safety is a language spoken by many and needed by all.

Regardless of which design approach is selected for the product being exported, a successful international agency compliance effort must be regarded as a corporate-wide effort. Although it may begin with engineering, it must involve production, quality, purchasing, legal, insurance, and marketing in order to be effective. Because it is essential that all of these groups and influences work cooperatively towards the same goals, active support by top management is extremely important. This support should come in the form of a clear corporate policy statement that defines the corporate responsibility to provide products which comply with national and international regulations. It should also define which agency requirements and which standards should be satisfied.

Legend Safety is committed to global occupational and environmental health and safety compliance; assisting you in the global safety compliance of your industry.


About Global Safety

ISO (International Organization for Standardization)
If there were no standards, we would soon notice. Standards make an enormous contribution to most aspects of our lives. It is when there is an absence of standards that their importance is brought home. We are usually unaware of the role played by standards in raising levels of quality, safety, reliability, and efficiency.

ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, on the basis of one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.

ISO standards contribute to making the development, manufacturing and supply of products and services more efficient, safer and cleaner. They make trade between countries easier and fairer. They provide governments with a technical base for health, safety and environmental legislation. Today, many products require testing for conformance with specifications or compliance with safety, or other regulations before they can be put on many markets.

Therefore, ISO is able to act as a bridging organization in which a consensus can be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society, such as the needs of stakeholder groups like consumers and users.

UN Globally Harmonized System
Chemicals, through the different steps from their production to their handling, transport and use, are a real danger for human health and the environment. People of any ages, from children to elderly, using many different languages and alphabets, belonging to various social conditions, including illiterates, are daily confronted to dangerous products.

To face this danger, and given the reality of the extensive global trade in chemicals and the need to develop national programs to ensure their safe use, transport and disposal, it was recognized that an internationally-harmonized approach to classification and labeling would provide the foundation for such programs. Once countries have consistent and appropriate information on the chemicals they import or produce in their own countries, the infrastructure to control chemical exposures and protect people and the environment can be established in a comprehensive manner.

The new system, which was called "Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)", addresses classification of chemicals by types of hazard and proposes harmonized hazard communication elements, including labels and safety data sheets. The work about the elaboration of the GHS began with the premise that existing systems should be harmonized in order to develop a single, globally harmonized system to address classification of chemicals, labels, and safety data sheets. This was not a totally novel concept since harmonization of classification and labelling was already largely in place for physical hazards and acute toxicity in the transport sector, based on the work of the United Nations Economic and Social Council's Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNCEDTG). Harmonization had not been achieved in the workplace or consumer sectors, however, and transport requirements in countries were often not harmonized with those of other sectors in that country.