QEHSOperations
Material Safety Data SheetMSDS
The legacy 8-section chemical information sheet, replaced by the 16-section SDS.
MSDS was the pre-GHS term for chemical safety documents. Since the 2012 HazCom revision, "SDS" (Safety Data Sheet) is the correct term with a standardised 16-section format. Legacy MSDS documents from before the GHS transition may still exist in older facilities and must be updated to the SDS format.