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Lecture 4

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) must be provided by suppliers with deliveries, accessible to all employees, and current. The document outlines definitions of hazardous materials, key safety information, and how to read an MSDS, including sections on chemical identity, hazards, first aid, and handling. It also includes labeling information for health, flammability, and reactivity hazards.

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Lecture 4

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) must be provided by suppliers with deliveries, accessible to all employees, and current. The document outlines definitions of hazardous materials, key safety information, and how to read an MSDS, including sections on chemical identity, hazards, first aid, and handling. It also includes labeling information for health, flammability, and reactivity hazards.

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Material Safety Data Sheets

(MSDS) Material Safety Data


Sheets
• Are to be provided by Supplier’s with all deliveries

• MUST be Accessible to EVERYONE in the


workplace

• Must be current

• Must be made available to attending physician in


the event of exposure

DEFINITIONS
• Flammable: ANY substance easily ignited and quick
burning, including liquids with a flash point below
Definition cont’d
95 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Caustic: ANY substance able to burn, damage
or destroy organic tissue by chemical reaction;
• Toxic: ANY substance (alone or via chemical
Corrosive.
reaction) able to cause harm/produce injury to
the body through absorption, ingestion,
inhalation, or injection. • Flash point: the lowest temperature at which a
liquid produces enough vapor to ignite.

• Density: (% of Water & Air);

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Definition cont’d
• PEL: Permissible Exposure Limit is the standard Definition cont’d
recognized by industry as the maximum amount or
concentration of a chemical that a worker may be exposed
to. • Ceiling: the maximum (C) concentration
never to be exceeded.
• TLV: Threshold Limit Value is a recommended limit for
chemical substance exposures, similar to the PEL but most
often more restrictive than the PEL. • Lethal Dose50 : (LD50) is the amount of a
substance that, when administered by a
• TWA: an 8-hour Time-Weighted Average is the defined route of entry (e.g. oral or dermal)
concentration the average worker can be exposed during an over a specified period of time, is expected
8-hour workday, day after day, without harmful effects.
to cause the death of 50% of a defined
animal population.
• STEL: “Short Term Exposure Limit” is a 15 minute
period.

READING THE MSDS


Definition cont’d • Identity The chemical name, trade name and
manufacturers name, address and emergency phone
• Lethal Concentration50 : (LC50) is the number can be found here.
amount of a substance in air that, when given
by inhalation over a specified period of time, • Ingredients Includes: substance,
is expected to cause the death in 50% of a % content, CAS Number, Classification,
defined animal population.
• Hazards Identification Dangers for humans and the
environment such as: Most important hazards & Specific
hazards

• First Aid gives instructions on what to do in case of eye


contact, skin contact or ingestion

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READING THE MSDS cont’d READING THE MSDS cont’d
• Fire Fighting Suitable extinguishing media, Unsuitable • Physical and Chemical Properties Appearance, Odor, pH,
extinguishing media, Special hazards in fire, Required Boiling point, Melting point, Flashpoint, Explosive properties,
special protective equipment for fire-fighters. Vapor pressure, Relative density, Solubility

• Stability and Reactivity Conditions to avoid, Materials to


• Accidental Release Measures/Spill Clean-up Personal
avoid, Hazardous decomposition products
precautions, Environmental precautions, Methods for
cleaning
• Toxicology Acute toxicity, Local effects. Excessive exposure
may affect human health as follows: Skin contact, Eye
• Handling and Storage Exposure Controls and Personal contact, Inhalation/ingestion.
Protection
Information on proper PPE (Personal protective equipment • Ecological Information Lists any dangers to the
to use, how to store and temperature limits environment

Reading the MSDS cont’d


• Disposal Lists any special disposal methods

• Transport Information lists codes indicating


the dangers and the type of transport which may
Hazardous Materials
be needed Identification System, HMIS
• Regulations Lists any agency that may regulate
this product

• Other Information
Recommendations/restrictions, Sources of key
data used to compile Safety Data Sheet

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Label Information
 Health = Blue

 Flammability = Red

 Instability or
Reactivity = Yellow

 Other hazards or special


handling = White

 Scale: 0 (no hazard)


to 4 (extreme hazard)

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