Chemical substances inventory
You should make an inventory or list of chemical substances that your business uses, supplies, manufactures or imports. This will help you understand your responsibilities, what you need to do and the impact REACH will have on your business activities.
UK REACH Competent Authority: Creating an inventory for downstream users of chemicals including formulators (Adobe PDF - 111KB)
Chemicals users' requirements
You are a chemical user if as a part of your work you:
- use any chemicals or preparations
- formulate or blend chemical preparations or mixtures
- use any chemicals, preparations or mixtures to produce articles.
If you use a chemical substance you must make sure that you:
- identify and follow all appropriate safety measures identified by the chemical's safety data sheet, if required
- use the substance within its safe exposure limits
- comply with any restrictions or conditions of authorisation that have been placed on its use.
UK REACH Competent Authority: What REACH means for users of chemicals (Adobe PDF - 63KB)
