H318 — Causes serious eye damage
The GHS hazard statement for serious eye damage, category 1. Here is what it means, the label elements that travel with it, and the substances that carry it.
What it means
Tissue damage in the eye or serious physical decay of vision that is not fully reversible.
When H314 ("Causes severe skin burns and eye damage") is present, H318 is not stated separately on the label — the stronger statement covers it.
Precautionary statements paired with H318
When the engine writes SDS Section 2 for a product carrying H318, these are the precautionary statements it assigns, with combined statements written as one line:
Substances that carry H318
817 of the 4,228 substances in our database carry H318 when classified in pure form — recognizable examples:
Reference information, not legal or professional advice. Statement texts and allocations follow 29 CFR 1910.1200 Appendix C (the GHS as adopted by OSHA HazCom 2024) as implemented by our classification engine; the regulatory text and agency practice control. Claims last reviewed July 23, 2026.
The engine writes these for you.
When SDS HQ authors an SDS, it assigns the hazard statements, signal word, pictograms, and precautionary statements from these same tables — automatically, with the calculation shown.