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Health hazard · Acute toxicity - dermal

H312 — Harmful in contact with skin

Health hazard statements describe what the substance does to a person exposed to it. 263 substances with a harmonised EU classification carry this code.

EU CLP: currentUS OSHA HazCom: currentUS HazCom 2012: currentUN GHS: current

01 · Wording

What H312 says

Official

Harmful in contact with skin.

Source

CLP Annex III · Health hazards

Classification
GHS07 pictogram — exclamation mark

Acute toxicity - dermal GHS chapter 3.1

Category 4 · pictogram GHS07 (exclamation mark) · signal word Warning

UN GHS history

Unchanged since 2009.

Rev.3 2009
Rev.4 2011
Rev.5 2013
Rev.6 2015
Rev.7 2017
Rev.8 2019
Rev.9 2021
Rev.10 2023
Rev.11 2025
wording never changed

Present in every UN GHS edition from Rev.3 (2009) to Rev.11 (2025), with the same wording throughout.

Nine editions of the UN model text, 86 hazard statements, 19 of which ever moved. Read the full story in what changed in UN GHS Rev.11.

02 · Languages

H312 in the 24 official EU languages

A label put on the market in an EU country must carry the wording of that country's own language version of CLP — not a translation of the English one. These 24 lines are quoted from the consolidated regulation, Annex III, and are the text to print.

LanguageOfficial wording of H312
BG български Bulgarian Вреден при контакт с кожата.
ES español Spanish Nocivo en contacto con la piel.
CS čeština Czech Zdraví škodlivý při styku s kůží.
DA dansk Danish Farlig ved hudkontakt.
DE Deutsch German Gesundheitsschädlich bei Hautkontakt.
ET eesti Estonian Nahale sattumisel kahjulik.
EL ελληνικά Greek Επιβλαβές σε επαφή με το δέρμα.
EN English English Harmful in contact with skin.
FR français French Nocif par contact cutané.
GA Gaeilge Irish Díobhálach i dteagmháil leis an gcraiceann.
HR hrvatski Croatian Štetno u dodiru s kožom.
IT italiano Italian Nocivo per contatto con la pelle.
LV latviešu Latvian Kaitīgs, ja nonāk saskarē ar ādu.
LT lietuvių Lithuanian Kenksminga susilietus su oda.
HU magyar Hungarian Bőrrel érintkezve ártalmas.
MT Malti Maltese Jagħmel il-ħsara meta jmiss mal-ġilda.
NL Nederlands Dutch Schadelijk bij contact met de huid.
PL polski Polish Działa szkodliwie w kontakcie ze skórą.
PT português Portuguese Nocivo em contacto com a pele.
RO română Romanian Nociv în contact cu pielea.
SK slovenčina Slovak Škodlivý pri kontakte s pokožkou.
SL slovenščina Slovenian Zdravju škodljivo v stiku s kožo.
FI suomi Finnish Haitallista joutuessaan iholle.
SV svenska Swedish Skadligt vid hudkontakt.

Source: CELEX:02008R1272-20260501, Annex III. © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu — only the electronic Official Journal of the European Union is authentic. Irish is one of the 24 official languages and its H and P texts are printed inside the multilingual Annex tables, but no consolidated CLP has ever been published in Irish — which is why an Irish-primary label cannot be built here.

03 · Legal status

Where H312 is current

GHS is a United Nations model text, revised every two years, and each jurisdiction adopts a revision on its own timetable. A code can be legally current in one system and deleted in another — that is normal, not an error.

JurisdictionBasisStatus of H312
EU CLP Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 CLP Annex IV, Part 2 (consolidated) Current
US OSHA HazCom 29 CFR 1910.1200 Appendix C UN GHS Rev.7 (final rule of 20 May 2024) Current
US HazCom 2012 legacy · GHS Rev.3 UN GHS Rev.3, Annex 3 Current
UN GHS Rev.11 (2025) UN GHS Rev.11, Annex 3 Current

Currently in force under: EU CLP, US OSHA HazCom, US HazCom 2012, UN GHS. Sources: EU CLP · US OSHA HazCom · US HazCom 2012 · UN GHS

04 · On a label

H312 also appears combined

CLP Annex III defines combined hazard statements as single label elements. H312 is a component of 3 of them — this is how you will actually see it printed. The combinations have no pages of their own: a plus sign in a URL has to be encoded and breaks in other people's links and in analytics.

CodeCombined statement
H302+H312 Harmful if swallowed or in contact with skin. CLP verbatim: Harmful if swallowed or in contact with skin
H312+H332 Harmful in contact with skin or if inhaled. CLP verbatim: Harmful in contact with skin or if inhaled
H302+H312+H332 Harmful if swallowed, in contact with skin or if inhaled. CLP verbatim: Harmful if swallowed, in contact with skin or if inhaled

05 · Substances

Substances carrying H312

Every entry whose harmonised CLP Annex VI classification includes this hazard statement. Substances with a reference page here open on this site; the rest open on ghssymbols.com. Of these, 18 are group entries such as “salts of picric acid” or “beryllium compounds” — Annex VI gives them no CAS number, so they are listed by Index No and have no page of their own.

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The full list of H-codes with the jurisdiction switch lives on the hazard statements hub. For what to do about the hazard, see precautionary statements (P-codes).

Wording quoted from the regulation named above. Substance counts come from harmonised classifications in CLP Annex VI — the statements on a real product also depend on the supplier's own classification. Always check the supplier safety data sheet.

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