Safety information sources

Chemical Safety Information Sources, United Nations Environment Program, Nairobi, Kenya, 1993. 

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. 

An exhaustive source of environmental health and occupational safety information MSDSs links to other MSDS sites links to safety sites on the Internet links to occupational safety and health and environmental organizations and research programs OSHA and ERA regulations NIOSH databases discussion boards and much more. 

Processing equipment has standard procedures to operate and meet safety requirements. Safety information and standards are available from various sources that include the equipment suppliers, Society of Plastics Industry (SPI), and American National Standards Institute (ANSI). For the past century we have observed increasing activity on the... 

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. 

A study of the perceived trustworthiness of different sources of information about food safety was reported in the Eurobarometer (1998). It indicated the trust in consumer associations was the highest, followed by national authorities. Overall, sources of information about food safety were least trusted from producers, companies, and market venders. Following is the percentage of respondents perceiving each of the information sources as completely trustworthy ... 

In further analyzing how the crisis influences consumers, Smith et al. (1999) discovered that confidence in all sources dropped after their announcement of a BSE/Creutz-Jakob disease (CJD) crisis in March of 1996 in Great Britain. Consumers were asked about seven different information sources, as well as the extent to which I trust the following sources of information in terms of the advice they give about the safety of meat/ BSE. Although confidence in all sources dropped, the confidence in family and friends dropped the least. 

TABLE 3.1. Published Information Sources for Safety Assessment... 

Parker, C.M. (1988). Available toxicology information sources and their use. Product Safety Evaluation Handbook (Gad, S.C., Ed.). Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 23-41. 

Trade associations are also an excellent source of detailed and up-to-date material safety information, such as for ethylene oxide and acrylic... 

Appropriate skills must be made available during the development of process documentation. For example, for a large facility, process engineers, chemists, and health and safety specialists should be involved. These staff members should have access to appropriate information sources, including ... 

The OSHA PSM Standard and the EPA RMP regulation do not explicitly require the use of multiple sources when compiling process safety information. 

In the compilation of process safety information, require that multiple sources of information be sufficiently consulted to understand and control potential reactive hazards. Useful sources include ... 

Even unifying information about a very specific field such as the pharmacology of discrete drugs is a monumental task. The primary reason for this difficulty is the disparity of purpose between various information sources. Consider how different the purposes are ofWDI (World Drug Index) [20], PDR (Physician s Desk Reference) [21], MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) [22] and REG (Chemical Abstracts Registry) [23], each of which has a different natural data model. 

This chapter is not a comprehensive information source on occupational safety and health. It provides a general guidehne for industrial and technical personnel at industrial sites to understand or familiarize themselves with ... 

The first three sections of an HSG highlight the relevant technical information in the corresponding EHC. Section 4 includes advice on preventive and protective measures and emergency action. Within the Guide is a Summary of Chemical Safety Information, which should be readily available, and should be clearly explained, to all who could come into contact with the chemical. The section on regulatory information has been extracted from the legal file of the International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC) and from other UN sources. 

NPTN is based at Oregon State University and is cooperatively sponsored by the University and EPA. NPTN serves as a source of objective, science-based pesticide information on a wide range of pesticide-related topics, such as recognition and management of pesticide poisonings, safety information, health and environmental effects, referrals for investigation of pesticide incidents and emergency treatment for both humans and animals, and cleanup and disposal procedures. 

This step involves planning the process of using external potentially useful information sources, including so-called solution databases (such as compiled by Lyngby, the Danish EPA and the Dutch TNO), safety perfor-mance/benchmarking data, literature on process safety and reliability, literature on cleaner production/pollution prevention, academic experts/... 

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