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Health hazard · Serious eye damage/eye irritation

H318 — Causes serious eye damage

Health hazard statements describe what the substance does to a person exposed to it. 502 substances with a harmonised EU classification carry this code.

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

01 · Wording

What H318 says

Official

Causes serious eye damage.

Source

CLP Annex III · Health hazards

Classification
GHS05 pictogram — corrosion

Serious eye damage/eye irritation GHS chapter 3.3

Category 1 · pictogram GHS05 (corrosion) · signal word Danger

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

H318 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 H318
BG български Bulgarian Предизвиква сериозно увреждане на очите.
ES español Spanish Provoca lesiones oculares graves.
CS čeština Czech Způsobuje vážné poškození očí.
DA dansk Danish Forårsager alvorlig øjenskade.
DE Deutsch German Verursacht schwere Augenschäden.
ET eesti Estonian Põhjustab raskeid silmakahjustusi.
EL ελληνικά Greek Προκαλεί σοβαρή οφθαλμική βλάβη.
EN English English Causes serious eye damage.
FR français French Provoque de graves lésions des yeux.
GA Gaeilge Irish Ina chúis le damáiste tromchúiseach don tsúil.
HR hrvatski Croatian Uzrokuje teške ozljede oka.
IT italiano Italian Provoca gravi lesioni oculari.
LV latviešu Latvian Izraisa nopietnus acu bojājumus.
LT lietuvių Lithuanian Smarkiai pažeidžia akis.
HU magyar Hungarian Súlyos szemkárosodást okoz.
MT Malti Maltese Jagħmel ħsara serja lill-għajnejn.
NL Nederlands Dutch Veroorzaakt ernstig oogletsel.
PL polski Polish Powoduje poważne uszkodzenie oczu.
PT português Portuguese Provoca lesões oculares graves.
RO română Romanian Provoacă leziuni oculare grave.
SK slovenčina Slovak Spôsobuje vážne poškodenie očí.
SL slovenščina Slovenian Povzroča hude poškodbe oči.
FI suomi Finnish Vaurioittaa vakavasti silmiä.
SV svenska Swedish Orsakar allvarliga ögonskador.

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 H318 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 H318
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 · Substances

Substances carrying H318

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, 78 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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