Free CLP Label Template (Spreadsheet)

What’s in the CLP label template

If your label details live in a spreadsheet today, this gives that spreadsheet a structure. The workbook has four sheets:

• Label register — one row per product, with drop-downs for product type, classification status and signal word, and a Checks column that flags the basics: a missing classification status, supplier telephone number or nominal quantity, a classified product with no hazard, precautionary or disposal statement, and more than six precautionary statements.
• Label text — type a row number and the sheet lays that product’s label text out in reading order, ready to copy into your label design or your printer’s template.
• Reference — what GB CLP says about each label element, quoted from legislation.gov.uk, the nine hazard pictogram codes, and the wording of a selection of hazard and precautionary statements.
• Start here — how to use it, in seven steps, with a worked example row you delete before use.

Classify first, then fill it in

The template records your product’s classification; it does not work it out. Under GB CLP Article 4(4), a mixture classified as hazardous must be labelled before it is placed on the market, and the classification decides which pictograms, signal word and statements the label carries. That work starts with your fragrance suppliers’ safety data sheets. Our CLP Pictogram Finder shows which pictograms a set of hazard properties points to, and the complete UK guide to CLP labels walks through the whole label. When a label is printed, the CLP Label Checker checks it for the essential elements.

It covers Great Britain. Products placed on the market in Northern Ireland are subject to EU CLP instead, and finished cosmetic products, such as toilet soap and bath preparations, are outside GB CLP and labelled under the UK Cosmetics Regulation.