Australia Model Code of Practice: Preparation of Safety Data Sheets for Hazardous Chemicals 1.3: Prepare an SDS for every hazardous chemical, including consumer products, and (as recommended) for unclassifiable chemicals, mixtures with sensitiser or CMR ingredients and engineered nanomaterials

What does 1.3 require?

Almost all chemicals that meet the WHS Regulations definition of hazardous chemical need an SDS, including those also sold as consumer products. A voluntary SDS for a non-hazardous chemical should still follow the Code as far as reasonably practicable. The Code also recommends an SDS for a chemical that may harm health, safety or the environment but lacks the data needed to classify it (reflecting what is known), for a mixture containing an ingredient that meets the criteria for respiratory or skin sensitisation, specific target organ toxicity, reproductive toxicity, carcinogenicity or mutagenicity even if the mixture itself is not hazardous, and for engineered or manufactured nanomaterials (or chemicals containing them) unless shown not to be hazardous. Other hazard properties not otherwise captured, such as ototoxicity, should be included. One SDS may cover a group of products expected to share hazard properties, if every product identifier appears on it.