Chemicals Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply (CHIP): The law that applies to suppliers of dangerous chemicals and bio-chemicals. Its purpose is to protect people and the environment from the effects of those chemicals by requiring suppliers to provide information about the dangers and to package them safely. CHIP requires the supplier of a dangerous chemical to: (a) identify and classify the hazards (dangers) of the chemical; (b) give information about the hazards to their customers. Suppliers usually provide this information on the package itself (e.g. a label) or if supplied for use at work, in a safety data sheet (SDS) and; (d) package the chemical safely. ‘Supply’ means making a chemical available to another person. Manufacturers, importers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers are all examples of suppliers.

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH): UK regulations about the handling of chemicals in the workplace. A COSHH form are required to be supplied with any chemicals to where it is delivered and always be available to all members of staff handling it. It contains guidelines on what should be done if the chemical comes into contact with skin and other safety precautions, plus the normal "Irritant", "Flammable" or other chemical and biochemical hazard warnings.

Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals(GHS):  Set to replace the various different labeling standards for hazardous chemicals used in different countries. GHS includes a set of hazard symbols that replaces the European orange-colored hazard symbols and American equivalents. The symbols are similar to the EU symbols, with exceptions, but include a new area for hazards to humans such as carcinogens, mutagens, sensitizers and substances which have target organ toxicity. These insidious biological hazards are now separated from acute chemical toxicity.

Good Laboratory Practice (GLP): a set of principles that provides a framework within which laboratory studies are planned, performed, monitored, recorded, reported and archived. These studies are undertaken to generate data by which the hazards and risks to users, consumers and third parties, including the environment, can be assessed for pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, cosmetics, food and feed additives and contaminants, novel foods and biocides. GLP helps assure regulatory authorities that the data submitted are a true reflection of the results obtained during the study and can therefore be relied upon when making risk/safety assessments.

Material safety data sheet (MSDS): Form containing data regarding the properties of a particular substance. An important component of workplace safety, it is intended to provide workers and emergency personnel with procedures for handling or working with that substance in a safe manner, and includes information such as physical data (melting point, boiling point, flash point, etc.), toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipment, and spill handling procedures. The exact format of an MSDS can vary from source to source.