Product: Tarasafe Ultra H2O

Gerflor Australasia Pty Ltd

Achievements:

Health & Ecotoxicity

• Best Practice PVC Certified
• Low VOC levels
• No Toxicity Issues of Concern

LCA

Life Cycle Analysis - Water

• Water footprint available

Life Cycle Analysis - Resources

• Designed for recycling or reuse

Life Cycle Analysis - Greenhouse Gas

• Carbon footprint available

Corporate Social Responsibility

• ≤10 year warranty
• Complies with Australian law
• Fit for Purpose certified
• Manufacturer take back policy
• Replacement parts available

Ratings Tools

• Green Star AU - GBCA
• IS Rating - ISCA
• LEED - USGBC
• WELL Features - IWBI

Construction Code Compliance

• Australian NCC Materials Requirement Conformant

More information:

The product is GreenTag GreenRate Level A Certified under Scheme A7.

The scope of certification includes Tarasafe Ultra H2O vinyl flooring in 2.0mm thickness.

The products have successfully passed the relevant GreenTag Standard's Cautionary Assessment Process and no issues of concern or red lights comments exist regarding the toxicity of the products.

The product uses an expanding agent which contains ADCA (CAS number 123-77-3). ADCA is categorised with an H334 Hazard Statement ('May cause sensitisation by inhalation'). It is also on the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) for Authorisation.

ADCA is an 'aid to manufacture' that is 'completely expended' in the process used to produce foam backing via purposeful, heat-induced, micro-explosive reaction. As the H-Statement relates to inhalable dust only, risk is only attributable where dust might be created from the foamed backing after manufacture.

Gerflor uses specific aspiration and close the lid of the equipment after introduction in the manufacturing process and any trace amount remaining after the reaction is entirely encapsulated within the polymer foam backing of the final flooring, there is an extremely unlikely chance that end users will be irritated by inhalation given the highly unlikely event that dust was somehow created from the backing while in use that then migrates into the room.

The risk has a potentially higher likelihood only during the manufacturing process of the original expanding agent itself which is outside the scope of this assessment.

Gerflor and its expanding agent supplier provide sufficient evidence that the occupational risks are mitigated. The products have successfully passed the relevant GreenTag Standard's Cautionary Assessment Process and no issues of concern or red lights comments exist regarding the toxicity of the products.

This product is available in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, the USA, China, Malaysia, and South Africa.

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Rating tools relevance:

Green Star® Australia "Buildings" v1.0 Rating tool:

• Credit 9: Responsible Finishes

Green Star® Australia "Design & As Built v1.3" Rating Tools Credits:

• Credit 20: Responsible Products (PVC)
• Credit 21: Sustainable Products

Green Star® Australia "Interiors v1.3" Rating Tools Credits

• Credit 20: Responsible Products (PVC)
• Credit 21: Sustainable Products

Green Star® New Zealand 'Design & As Built NZ' v1.1:

• Credit 20: Responsible Products (Timber | PVC)

Green Star® New Zealand 'Interiors NZ' v1.1:

• Credit 20: Responsible Products (PVC)

Green Star® Australia "Performance 1.2" Rating Tools Credit:

• Credit 21: Procurement & Purchasing (Refurbishment Materials)

IWBI® WELL v1.0 Features:
Compliant Technical Document (Audited) for Feature/s:

• Feature 04 VOC Reduction (Part 3)

IS® v1.2:

• Mat-2 Environmentally Labelled Products and Supply Chain

IS® Design & As-Built v2.1:

• Rso-7 Sustainability Labelled Products and Supply Chains

Earthcheck Rating Tool:

• Sustainable Materials