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Health hazard · Skin corrosion/irritation

H315 — Causes skin irritation

Health hazard statements describe what the substance does to a person exposed to it. 462 substances with a harmonised EU classification carry this code.

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

01 · Wording

What H315 says

Official

Causes skin irritation.

Source

CLP Annex III · Health hazards

Classification
GHS07 pictogram — exclamation mark

Skin corrosion/irritation GHS chapter 3.2

Category 2 · 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

H315 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 H315
BG български Bulgarian Предизвиква дразнене на кожата.
ES español Spanish Provoca irritación cutánea.
CS čeština Czech Dráždí kůži.
DA dansk Danish Forårsager hudirritation.
DE Deutsch German Verursacht Hautreizungen.
ET eesti Estonian Põhjustab nahaärritust.
EL ελληνικά Greek Προκαλεί ερεθισμό του δέρματος.
EN English English Causes skin irritation.
FR français French Provoque une irritation cutanée.
GA Gaeilge Irish Ina chúis le greannú craicinn.
HR hrvatski Croatian Nadražuje kožu.
IT italiano Italian Provoca irritazione cutanea.
LV latviešu Latvian Kairina ādu.
LT lietuvių Lithuanian Dirgina odą.
HU magyar Hungarian Bőrirritáló hatású.
MT Malti Maltese Jagħmel irritazzjoni tal-ġilda.
NL Nederlands Dutch Veroorzaakt huidirritatie.
PL polski Polish Działa drażniąco na skórę.
PT português Portuguese Provoca irritação cutânea.
RO română Romanian Provoacă iritarea pielii.
SK slovenčina Slovak Dráždi kožu.
SL slovenščina Slovenian Povzroča draženje kože.
FI suomi Finnish Ärsyttää ihoa.
SV svenska Swedish Irriterar huden.

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.

Where H315 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 H315
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

Substances carrying H315

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, 47 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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