USING THE GHS TO EVALUATE CHEMICAL TOXIC HAZARDS

Preview This section explains how you can use the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to evaluate toxicity data to determine the relative risk associated with potential exposure to a toxic chemical. 

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even in instances where you do have hazard data, you have to know how to interpret this to judge the degree of the hazard and also consider the probability of exposure to determine the overall risk. How dangerous, or safe, is a compound with an LD50 of 125 mg/kg And even if you know an LC50 or IDLH concentration, what is the partial pressure of the compound in the lab  

Laboratory Safety for Chemistry Students, Second Edition. Robert H. Hill, Jr. and David C. Finster. 2016 John Wiley Sons, Inc. Published 2016 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

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