Danger indication

Category of danger Indication of danger Symbol Symbol letter... 

DANGER. Indicates inmtinently hazardons situations which, if not avoided, will result in death or smous injury. 

DANGER indicates immediately hazardous situations that could result in death or serious injury. Use only in extreme situations. 

The fact that all eight of the laboratory personnel saw only the development of a west-ward-moving cloud (along with the noise and other activity, some of which is noted in Table 42.1) and appreciated the threat to themselves, whereas the 18 control room staff apparently did not see anything to warn them of their great danger, indicated also that there could not... 

Yellow (black symbols and text) Hazard (risk of danger) Indication of hazards (electrical, explosive, radiation, chemical, vehicle, etc.) Warning of threshold, low passages, obstacles... 

Characteristics associated with ignitable liquids are relatively simple to understand when a single element or compound is involved however, mixtures are more difficult to understand. Flammability characteristics of the most volatile element or compound may persist this becomes the danger indicator for the entire volume of mixture. This is a common problem with mixing chemicals for laboratories or when cleaning with multiple cleaning solvents. 

With the danger of severe oversimplification, which unavoidably leads to improper underevaluation of important recent developments, I shall try to indicate where traditional, classical MD has brought us today, or will bring us tomorrow. This concerns the techniques rather than the applications, which cannot be reviewed in the present context. The main aspects to consider concern algorithms and force fields. 

Other sources of hazard arise from the handling of such chemicals as concentrated acids, alkalis, metallic sodium and bromine, and in working with such extremely poisonous substances as sodium and potassium cyanides. The special precautions to be observed will be indicated, where necessary, in the experiments in which the substances are employed, and will also be supplied by the demonstrator. The exercise of obvious precautions and cautious handling will in most cases reduce the danger to almost negligible proportions. Thus, if concentrated sulphuric acid should be accidentally spilled, it should be immediately washed with a liberal quantity of water or of a solution of a mild alkali. 

In a performance-based approach to quality assurance, a laboratory is free to use its experience to determine the best way to gather and monitor quality assessment data. The quality assessment methods remain the same (duplicate samples, blanks, standards, and spike recoveries) since they provide the necessary information about precision and bias. What the laboratory can control, however, is the frequency with which quality assessment samples are analyzed, and the conditions indicating when an analytical system is no longer in a state of statistical control. Furthermore, a performance-based approach to quality assessment allows a laboratory to determine if an analytical system is in danger of drifting out of statistical control. Corrective measures are then taken before further problems develop. 

Experimentation with test animals and laboratory and plant experience indicate that the fluorophosphoric acids are less toxic and dangerous than hydrogen fluoride (58). However, they contain, or can hydrolyze to, hydrofluoric acid and must be treated with the same care as hydrofluoric acid. Rubber gloves and face shields are essential for all work with these acids, and full mbber dress is necessary for handling larger quantities. The fumes from these acids contain HF. 

Structural Considerations. Sdos, bins, and hoppers fail, in one way or another, each year. The causes of silo failures are many and varied (9). Such failures can range from a complete and dramatic stmctural coUapse, to cracking in a concrete wall, or denting of a steel shell. This last is often a danger signal indicating that corrective measures are required. 

The most suitable method of fast and simple control of the presence of dangerous substances is analytical detection by means of simplified methods - the so-called express-tests which allow quickly and reliably revealing and estimating the content of chemical substances in various objects. Express-tests are based on sensitive reactions which fix analytical effect visually or by means of portable instalments. Among types of indicator reactions were studied reactions of complex formation, oxidation-reduction, diazotization, azocoupling and oxidative condensation of organic substances, which are accompanied with the formation of colored products or with their discoloration. 

Table 14.2 Indication of dangers with chemical products ...

For substances in Class 9 for which no packing group is indicated in the List of Dangerous Goods, Packing Group II quantities must be used. 

The safety alert concept is another tool that can be used by large or small businesses to communicate past best practices and indicate a path forward. On a daily basis, lessons learned should be communicated in a site safety meeting. A worker or supervisor may have discovered that a current practice could cause a potentially dangerous situation. Many times the correction or long-term fix for a hazard involves engineering... 

All fluorinating agents should be considered toxic in different amounts and, therefore, handled accordingly Nonvolatile fluorides, however, are not too dangerous in this respect, because it is unlikely that they will be swallowed or that they will penetrate into the blood stream What is extremely dangerous is inhalation of volatile fluorides, that is, gases, liquids, or solids with considerable vapor pressure Such fluorides are indicated in the tables in this chapter... 

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