Material Safety Data Sheet

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  Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers

  • Jack Hipple(Author)
  • 2017(Publication Date)
  • Wiley-AIChE

    (Publisher)

  2 Safety and Health : The Role and Responsibilities in Chemical Engineering Practice

  Basic Health and Safety Information: The Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

  We often hear the term “hazardous chemicals” as if this were different from other normal materials. We sometimes describe water as if it is not a chemical, but it is! It has a chemical formula (H2 O), and thousands of people die in it every year (by drowning or being carried away in floods) at room temperature, yet we cannot live without it for more than a few days. Every material has a chemical formula and every material, under some conditions, can cause harm. People are also thermally burned by steam. Gasoline, in conjunction with an internal combustion engine, is a necessary material to move a car, but this same material is highly flammable (but only under certain conditions) and can burn cars to the ground and cause serious burns to a car’s passengers, or can be used in arson. It is a chemical engineer’s (along with chemists, toxicologists, and biologists) job to clearly define what these hazardous conditions might be and how they might be created and then not only to prevent these situations from occurring but also to communicate clearly to those around us and who work with these materials this same information and the best known ways of dealing with an unsafe situation. For example, what is the best way to put out a gasoline fire? How can it be prevented?

  The basic set of information that should be available for any chemical or material includes this information. This listing follows the outline of a particular compound’s Material Safety Data Sheet. This is a summary document required to be supplied to a customer of any supplier. A web reference to view an MSDS sheets is included in Appendix II

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  Integrated Design and Simulation of Chemical Processes

  • Alexandre C. Dimian, Costin Sorin Bildea, Anton A. Kiss(Authors)
  • 2014(Publication Date)
  • Elsevier Science

    (Publisher)

  The impact factors presented earlier are formally captured in documents, namely MSDSs or safety data sheets (SDSs), and today compulsory for chemical products all over the world. Before starting a project, the designer must have a good perception about the materials involved in the process from safety, health and environmental viewpoints. This information could motivate important design decisions. The chemical species, known from the process chemistry, should include main components, by-products and key impurities. MSDS provides comprehensive information regarding the hazard, toxicity, storage, transportation, handling and disposal, as well as key physical properties, which a company has to communicate to customers and employees for every chemical manufactured or sold. The content of the document depends on the regulation agency of each country. In the United States, the MSDS is controlled by the OSHA, from 2012 updated under the designation SDS. In Europe, SDSs are an integral part of the system for the regulation of chemicals called REACH. The European document has 16 sections divided as follows (EU Commission Regulation No. 453/2010 of 20 May 2010):

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  Regulatory Toxicology, Third Edition

  • Shayne C. Gad(Author)
  • 2018(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

    (Publisher)

  14 Safety Data Sheets Dexter W. Sullivan, Jr. CONTENTS Introduction Hazard Communication: Background and Basic Requirements for Safety Data Sheets Identification Hazard Identification Composition/Information on Ingredients First-Aid Measures Fire-Fighting Measures Accidental Release Measures Handling and Storage Exposure Controls/Personal Protection Physical and Chemical Properties Stability and Reactivity Toxicological Information Ecological Information Disposal Considerations Transport Information Regulatory Information Other Information International Aspects Labeling for Transportation Conclusions and Future Considerations References INTRODUCTION

  Underpinning all hazard communication regulations around the world is the requirement that Safety Data Sheets (SDS), previously known as Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), on hazardous chemicals are provided in the workplace and that hazardous chemicals are adequately labeled. These regulations also define, in elaborate detail, what makes a chemical hazardous and define many rules on how this information should be communicated on SDSs and labels.

  The United States has been one of the world leaders for legislation and regulation on matters of workplace safety. A more detailed description of these regulations can be found in Chapter 11

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  Precautionary Labels for Chemical Containers

  • N. Langerman(Author)
  • 2018(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

    (Publisher)

  DANGER! • WARNING! • CAUTION!

  Material Safety Data SheetS

  Chapter 9

  PRECAUTIONARY LABELS FOR CHEMICAL CONTAINERS

  Introduction

  This book concerns the primary source of necessary information about chemicals - the precautionary label. The system OSHA designed to convey precautionary information to workers depends upon the use of both the label and the MSDS. Thus, it is appropriate to include information on the MSDS in this book.

  The Chemical Manufacturer’s Association (CMA), in conjunction with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and with the concurrence of both OSHA and the EPA has prepared a guidance for the Material Safety Data Sheet. The remainder of this chapter explains the information that typically appears on an MSDS; using an example MSDS for a totally fictitious product - PR-20.

  The Material Safety Data Sheet is the primary source of technical information concerning safe handling procedures and health affects of a chemical. According to the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) regulations, a Material Safety Data Sheet must be readily available near the work station for every hazardous chemical used. Employees must know how to obtain a Material Safety Data Sheet and must be trained in how to interpret them. Because of the central role a Material Safety Data Sheet plays (along with labels), in providing the key to chemical safety, it is important that you understand how to read them. In this section, we will refer to the Material Safety Data Sheet for the compound “PR-20,”

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  Hydraulic Fracturing and Well Stimulation, Volume 1

  • Fred Aminzadeh(Author)
  • 2019(Publication Date)
  • Wiley-Scrivener

    (Publisher)

  SARA reporting, or possibly better known as the federal “right to know,” requires quarterly and annual reporting of chemical storage details (types of chemicals, amounts and dates of storage) for all facilities which used more than 10,000 pounds per year of the chemical exceeding the threshold quantity. This requirement means a facility storing more than 10,000 pounds of a given chemical in a year must report that chemical and amount. This program is intended as the “right to know” for emergency responders and emergency services that may respond to an emergency situation on the location so they will be able to adequately prepare for what may be stored on site. The drawback of this program as related to the oil and gas industry is that, with quarterly reporting, by the time a chemical has been reported the oilfield function requiring the chemical has normally been long complete and the chemicals are no longer on site. This basically means that once the chemical is reported as being on a location it is no longer there; however, as previously stated, oilfield operations have become such a streamlined process that if you know what has been reported for a previous location by a specified operator you can, for the most part, expect much the same chemicals and products stored at following locations. If you are really curious about all the chemicals used at a site, ask to receive a copy of the Material Safety Data Sheet of the chemicals used.

  3.6.1 Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

  Anytime a company produces for sale or uses a chemical a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) has to be written on the product and on file when used. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimates that there are over 650,000 hazardous chemicals used daily in the United States, and that hundreds more will be added this year alone. To address the physical and health hazards of these chemicals, OSHA finalized the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) on November 25, 1983. The purpose of the HCS is to “ensure that the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported are evaluated, and that information concerning their hazards is transmitted to employers and employees.” (29 CFR 1910.1200(a)(1)).

  Employers are under obligation to use labels, MSDS, and other information to evaluate both the physical and health hazards created by the use of chemicals in their workplace, establish a program that addresses these hazards and train workers to minimize their exposure. According to an OSHA Executive Summary, “Chemical information is the foundation of workplace chemical safety programs. Without it, sound management of chemicals cannot occur. The HCS has made provision of hazard information about chemical products an accepted business practice in the United States. There is now a whole generation of employers and employees who have never worked in a situation where information about the chemicals in their workplace is not available.”

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  Microscale Organic Laboratory

  With Multistep and Multiscale Syntheses

  • Dana W. Mayo, Ronald M. Pike, David C. Forbes(Authors)
  • 2013(Publication Date)
  • Wiley

    (Publisher)

  1 To access their online teacher resource on how to store chemicals properly, see: http://www.flinnsci.com/teacher-resources/safety/ Material Safety Data Sheets 9 Other wastes may have to be buried. For safety and economic reasons, it is important to place waste material in the appropriate container. In today’s world, it often costs more to dispose of a chemical than to purchase it in the first place! The economic impact of waste generation and disposal is gigantic. Based upon the toxic release inventory from the EPA for 2011, do you realize that the chemical industry in the United States released more than 4.09 billion pounds of on-site and off-site chemical waste? 2 Each year hundreds of billions of dollars are spent per year in waste treatment, control, and disposal costs! It is our obligation as chemists to decrease the impact that hazardous chemicals have on our environment. A movement is currently underway (re- ferred to as, “Green Chemistry”or “Benign by Design”) to accomplish this goal by focusing on the design, manufacture, and use of chemicals and chemical processes that have little or no pollution potential or environmental risk. Material Safety Data SheetS Although risks are associated with the use of most chemicals, the magnitudes of these risks vary greatly. A short description of the risks is provided by a Material Safety Data Sheet, commonly referred to as an MSDS. All participants of a lab- oratory experience are strongly encouraged to educate themselves on the risks, large or small, of the chemicals they are scheduled to work with while in lab. The information contained on these sheets can be obtained from a number of loca- tions. While they are normally provided by the manufacturer or vendor of the chemical, and users are required to keep on file the MSDS of each material stored or used, data sheets can be easily obtained online. As an example, the 1985 MSDS for acetone is shown here. This sheet was provided by the J. T. Baker Chemical Company.

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  Guidelines for Process Safety Documentation

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  • 2010(Publication Date)
  • Wiley-AIChE

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  Each of these areas of process knowledge will be discussed separately. Infbmurtion about the Cbemkb rnMatmkb Used-Process knowledge related to chemicals and materials in a process can typically be found among the following sources: Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs); property test data; . research reports; patents; pilot plant reports and data; basic design packages; licensor documents; operating reports for similar processes; and articles in the technical literature. All pertinent data should be considered for documentation. 46 5. Process Knowledge A common source of information is the MSDS. Categories of information on MSDSs are defined in OSHA’s 29 CFR 1910.1200, and ANSI Z400.1 has been issued to standardize the format. The sections recommended by this latter document for inclusion in an MSDS are: Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Seth 4 Section 5 Sectiun 6 Section 7 Section 8 Sectiun 9 Section 1 0 Section 11 Section 12 Section 13 Section 1 4 Section 1 5 Section 16 Chemical Product and Company Identification Composition/Informationon Ingredients Hazards Identification First Aid Measures Fire Fighting Measures Accidental Release Measures Handling and Storage Exposure Controls/Personal Protection Physical and Chemical Properties Stability and Reactivity Toxicological Information Ecological Information Disposal Considerations Transport Information Regulatory Information Other Information Use of a standard format such as that given above should help all those who use MSDSs to find the required information quickly. Missing information can be a serious problem, and those individualsresponsiblefor MSDS preparation should ensure that pertinent information is not omitted. If a section of the MSDS is not applicable for a particular substance (e.g., substance is not flammable and, therefore, Section 5 does not apply) that section should be so marked. Purchased raw materials should be accompanied by a MSDS issued by the material supplier.

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  Industrial Plastics

  Theory and Applications

  • Erik Lokensgard(Author)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Cengage Learning EMEA

    (Publisher)

  Thermoplastic polyester also raises minor hazards. Concerns about these materials focus on additives and their possible toxic effects. For more information about additives, see Chapter 7. The two thermoset materials—polyurethane and phenolic— potentially expose humans to hazardous byproducts of polymerization. A discussion of these hazards appears later in this chapter. READING AND UNDERSTANDING MSDSs Hazardous methods and materials are common in the plas-tics industry. In the United States, a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) accompanies any purchase of hazardous industrial raw materials. Federal Standard 313B, which pro-vides guidelines for the preparation of an MSDS, defines what the term hazardous means. The definition is broad and covers plastics because in the course of normal use plastics “may produce dusts, gases, fumes, vapors, mists, or smokes” that are dangerous. A similar definition of the word hazardous appears in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Hazardous substances are those that have been found capable of posing an unreasonable risk to health, safety, and property. When a customer repeatedly purchases the same material, an MSDS is sent with the first order every year. Although each producer of raw materials is responsible for creating the MSDS, the guidelines require certain categories of information. A thor-ough understanding of MSDSs as they relate to the plastics industry can promote safety for all personnel. New regulations specify the essential information that must be in an MSDS. Because the format is left to the supplier, MSDSs differ in format, but not in information. Many MSDSs use the following order of sections: 1. Product and company identification 2. Composition/information on ingredients 3. Hazards identification 4. First-aid measures 5. Firefighting measures 6. Accidental release measures 7. Handling and storage 8. Exposure controls and personal protection 9. Physical and chemical properties 10. Stability and reactivity data 11.

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  Health, Safety, and Accident Management in the Chemical Process Industries

  A Complete Compressed Domain Approach

  • Ann Marie Flynn, Louis Theodore(Authors)
  • 2001(Publication Date)
  • CRC Press

    (Publisher)

  Currently, only facilities in Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes 20 to 39 (ll1anufacturers and itnporters) are subject to these OSHA regulations, which deal prilllarily .with health and safety in the workplace. Under OSHA, all facilities are required to establish accident prevention safety progrmns, especially those that use and/or store hazardous chemicals. These programs are instituted to Inake the working environment at a facility safe for its employees. Any facility that uses and/or stores a hazardous chelnical luust submit Material Safety Data Sheets to OSHA and all other required agencies. MSDSs were developed to keep track of the different kinds of chenlicals a facility has on its prenuses and nlost itllPOrtant, what actions can be taken if a chenucal release occurs. OSHA also requires facilities to provide for all eillployees traiIung on accident prevention and response in the event of an accident. OSHA will be discussed further in Section 2.7. In general, every 111aterial safety data sheet should provide the local eluergency planlung conllnittee and the fire departInent in each conununity with the naIne of the chelnical covered, as vell as such general characteristics (see Table 2.6.4) as: 1. Toxicity, corrosivity, and reactivity 2. Known health effects, including chroluc effects from exposure 3. Basic procedures in handling, storage, and use 4. Basic countenneasures to take in tile event of a fire, explosion, or leak 5. Basic protective equiplnent to 111ininuze exposure 60 Chapter 2 More specific inforlnation or MSDSs is provided later in the book. Inforlnation on regulated chenllcals is available in the literature. 10 The above data should be useful for the planning to be accomplished by the local emergency planning cOlnluittee and first responders, especially fire departnlents and HAZMAT teams.

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  Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)

  Tenth Revised Edition

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  • 2023(Publication Date)
  • United Nations

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  In the latter case the competent authority would establish procedures for determining the potential exposure and risk for the use of the product. Labels based on this approach provide targeted information on identified risks but may not include certain information on chronic health effects (e.g. specific target organ toxicity (STOT)) following repeated exposure, reproductive toxicity and carcinogenicity), that would appear on a label based on hazard alone. A general explanation of the broad principles of risk-based labelling is contained in annex 5. 1.4.10.5.5.3 Tactile warnings If tactile warnings are used, the technical specifications should conform with ISO 11683:1997 “Tactile warnings of danger: Requirements”. - 33 - - 35 - CHAPTER 1.5 HAZARD COMMUNICATION: SAFETY DATA SHEETS (SDS) 1.5.1 The role of the safety data sheet (SDS) in the harmonized system 1.5.1.1 The SDS should provide comprehensive information about a substance or mixture for use in workplace chemical control regulatory frameworks. Both employers and workers use it as a source of information about hazards, including environmental hazards, and to obtain advice on safety precautions. The information acts as a reference source for the management of hazardous chemicals in the workplace. The SDS is product related and, usually, is not able to provide specific information that is relevant for any given workplace where the product may finally be used, although where products have specialized end uses the SDS information may be more workplace-specific. The information therefore enables the employer (a) to develop an active programme of worker protection measures, including training, which is specific to the individual workplace; and (b) to consider any measures which may be necessary to protect the environment. 1.5.1.2 In addition, the SDS provides an important source of information for other target audiences in the GHS.

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  Global Materials Compliance Handbook

  • John Phyper, Philippe Ducas, Peter J. Baish(Authors)
  • 2004(Publication Date)
  • Wiley-Interscience

    (Publisher)

  If the substance or preparation covered by this safety data sheet is the subject of specific provisions in relation to protection of man or the environment at community level (e.g., restrictions on marketing and use set out in Council Directive 76/769/EEC (11)) these provisions should, as far as is possible, be stated. 110 Material Safety Data SheetS TABLE 3.15. Continued Also mention, where possible, the national laws that implement these provisions and any other national measures that may be relevant. Section 16 Other Indicate any other information that the supplier information assesses as being of importance for the health and safety of the user and for the protection of the environment, for example: —list of relevant R phrases. Write out the full text of any R phrases referred to under headings 2 and 3 of the safety data sheet, —training advice, —recommended restrictions on use (i.e. non- statutory recommendations by supplier), —further information (written references and/or technical contact point), —sources of key data used to compile the data sheet, —for a revised safety data sheet, indicate clearly the information which has been added, deleted or revised (unless this has been indicated elsewhere). PACIFIC RIM MSDS 111 triggers for hazard. Table 3.16 presents a summary of the legislation pertinent to hazard classification. When one of the laws is found applicable to a sub- stance or preparation, the hazard classification applies. The hazard classifica- tions constitute the base information for determining interpretative sections statements. The hazards found applicable for a given product are listed in the name of category in Section 3 of the Japanese SDS. We should also mention that for some legislation cut-off concentrations are also taken into considera- tion and differ with the EU and U.S. ones. Those authoring MSDS in Japan must then use specific databases for such information.

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  Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)

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  • 2010(Publication Date)
  • United Nations Publications

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  The information acts as a reference source for the management of hazardous chemicals in the workplace. The SDS is product related and, usually, is not able to provide specific information that is relevant for any given workplace where the product may finally be used, although where products have specialized end uses the SDS information may be more workplace-specific. The information therefore enables the employer (a) to develop an active programme of worker protection measures, including training, which is specific to the individual workplace; and (b) to consider any measures which may be necessary to protect the environment. 1.5.1.2 In addition, the SDS provides an important source of information for other target audiences in the GHS. So certain elements of information may be used by those involved with the transport of dangerous goods, emergency responders (including poison centres), those involved in the professional use of pesticides and consumers. However, these audiences receive additional information from a variety of other sources such as the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Model Regulations document and package inserts for consumers and will continue to do so. The introduction of a harmonized labelling system therefore, is not intended to affect the primary use of the SDS which is for workplace users. 1.5.2 Criteria for determining whether an SDS should be produced An SDS should be produced for all substances and mixtures which meet the harmonized criteria for physical, health or environmental hazards under the GHS and for all mixtures which contain ingredients that meet the criteria for carcinogenic, toxic to reproduction or specific target organ toxicity in concentrations exceeding the cut-off limits for SDS specified by the criteria for mixtures (see 1.5.3.1).

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