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CHEMINPO provides chemical health and safety information for more than 1300 important workplace chemicals. 

A Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is a document summarizing the hazards and health and safety information for a chemical. In the United States, the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (29 CFR 1910.1200) requires that chemical manufacturers must make an MSDS available to employees and customers for every chemical manufactured or sold. The Canadian Hazardous Products Act (R.S., 1985, c. H-3) has the same requirement. 

Asbestos (Licensing) Regulations Electricity at Work Regulations Health and Safety (Information for Employees) Regulations Noise at Work Regulations Construction (Head Protection) Regulations... 

Health and Safety Information for Employees (Modifications and Repeals) Regulations 1995 Poster ISBN 0 7176 2493 5 Leaflet ISBN 0 7176 1702 5... 

Height safe Essential health and safety information for people who work at height. HSE s website www.hse. gov.uk... 

Physical properties and health and safety information for styrene are given in the literature [8]. 

Access to Health and Safety Information for Museum Workers... 

Health and safety information for commercially available chemicals is found on Safety Data Sheets (SDS) which are available from the manufacturer. The United Nations has recently adopted the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), which will be in place by December of 2015. GHS imposes worldwide consistency on classification of hazards such as toxicity and flammability. 

AH of the toxicity data on MDA have been collected using either 4,4 -MDA or the corresponding hydrochloride salt. The information discussed in this section can also be used for commercial products containing MDA or PMDA. Because MDA is a potentially ha2ardous chemical, worker exposure should be kept to a minimum. For complete health and safety information on MDA consult references 46 and 56—59. 

The National Safety Council, National Fire Protection Association, and other similar organizations pubHsh technical information that describes general safety practices for use during the testing, handling, storage, and transport of sulfur (21,36—40). Each of these pubHcations include a Hst of references for additional health and safety information. 

Visithttp //ntp-support.niehs.nih.gov/Main Pages/Chem-HS.html. This is the site for the National Institute of Environmental Health Science. You will find MSDS-type chemical health and safety information from the National Toxicology Program. Chemical searches can be performed by chemical name, synonym, or CAS (Chemical Abstract Service) number. 

Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) on compact disc from the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (can buy at CCOHS web site). "The HSDB(R) (Hazardous Substances Data Bank(R)) database contains data profiles on 4,500 potentially toxic chemical substances. It is created and updated by specialists at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Compiled from an extensive range of authoritative sources, HSDB is widely recognized as a reliable and practical source of health and safety information. Much of the data is peer reviewed. 

Search MSDS on CCINFOWeb. All databases on CCINFOWeb may be searched for free. The MSDSs are contributed by North American sources, many that are multi-national companies marketing chemical products worldwide. This database meets a growing international requirement for health and safety information on specific chemical products. It helps thousands of users worldwide manage their responsibilities under workplace, environmental and other right-to-know legislation. The MSDS database can be searched quickly and easily for product names and other product identifications, manufacturer or supplier names, dates of MSDSs, or any term used in the text of the MSDS itself. 

Gigienicheskiye normativy soderzhaniya pestitsidov v obyektakh okruzhayushchey sredy (perechen ) (Health and Safety Standards for Pesticide Content in the Environment (List)). GN 1.1.546-96. Moscow Inform.-izdat. Tsentr Goskomsanepidnadzora Rossii, 1997. 52 pp. 

Direction of Innovation (from the standnoint of market actors - 6a) The risk determining properties of DCM are the relatively high vapour pressure connected with a high density of the vapour and a medium toxicity. The health and safety provisions for the use of DCM are sufficient to inform about risks... 

The International Chemical Safety Cards (ICSCs) provide essential health and safety information on chemicals to promote their safe use. They are intended for use at the shop floor level by workers, but also by other interested parties in factories, agriculture, constmction, and other workplaces and often form part of education and training activities. 

It is the responsibility of the operator to read and understand relevant health and safety information (e.g., material safety data sheets) before sampling. The operator must wear appropriate protective clothing for the materials to be sampled the operator should be protected from the material and the material should be protected from the operator. If specific safety precautions and equipment (e.g., respirator) are required, then the operator must be properly trained in the use of the specified equipment and procedures. 

There is a second, equally important, reason for this work, namely, to offer a useful contribution to the industrial health and safety literature, for which there is also still an intense, or growing, need. Even with all we have learned, there are still explosions, chemical spills, and other incidents that could have been avoided by following basic standards. Our hope, with this volume, is to prevent such accidents by providing the engineer with the information necessary for a safer, incident-ftw environment. 

Standard specifications are very important sources of chemical and occupational health and safety information. Most countries have a standardization body which prepares, organizes and promulgates national standards. It is usually the national standardization body which is represented on international bodies for standardization, thus ensuring harmonization and cooperation of action. The standards produced are usually listed in an annual catalog, which is updated by a monthly newsletter or journal. Very often the catalog will be computerized and available either online or on a compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM). 

In order to assist NPCA member companies in communicating such health and safety information to their workers. NPCA through the Occupational Health and Safety Task Force (and in conjunction with the Canadian Paint and Coatings Association—CPCA) has developed a Hazardous Materials Identification System (HMIS) for use by the paint manufacturers. The system allows the paint manufacturing industry to quickly and concisely inform their employees about the variety of hazards presented by the large number of raw materials in the plant. 

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