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OSHA Standards and Requirements
Published in Thomas D. Schneid, Legal Liabilities in Safety and Loss Prevention, 2019
The SDS (Safety Data Sheet) is a document that describes the physical and chemical properties of products, their physical and health hazards, and precautions for their safe handling and use. The function of an MSDS is to provide detailed information on each hazardous chemical, including its potential health effects, its physical and chemical characteristics, and recommendations for appropriate protective measures. Distributors of regulated chemicals are required to furnish their customers with a completed MSDS for each regulated chemical. Customers receiving SDSs should review them for accuracy and completeness and make sure that the latest MSDS is on file. A comparison of new and old MSDSs is useful because it may identify that there is a new hazard associated with an existing chemical or that a new ingredient is included in a currently used product.
Pyrotechnic Laboratories and Analysis
Published in John A. Conkling, Christopher J. Mocella, Chemistry of Pyrotechnics, 2019
John A. Conkling, Christopher J. Mocella
Storage of solid chemicals in cabinets should be controlled and inventoried and always stored “like with like.” Oxidizers should be stored with other oxidizers, metals with metals, other/organic fuels with other/organic fuels, and other additives stored as is most efficient. Each chemical should be inventoried and the full properties understood via a Material Safety Data Sheet, or “MSDS,” which will detail any hazards and chemical incompatibilities. For example, even though ammonium nitrate and potassium chlorate are both oxidizers, accidental mixing and the presence of a catalyst can convert AN to ammonium chlorate—an unstable and potentially explosive compound. One should be sure to keep those two oxidizers separate. Copies of the MSDS should always be kept on-site or readily available.
Building from Proof of Concept Design
Published in Bahram Nassersharif, Engineering Capstone Design, 2022
When the design team is working with the materials for their design, they must collect and document the MSDS and quantities of the materials stored in the lab for emergencies and fire safety. In case of a fire, the firefighters need access to the list of materials stored in the capstone lab to use appropriate fire retardants for the chemistry present. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires MSDS for all products. The MSDS can be used to assess the chemical hazards of the materials used in the design and proper methods of protecting the designers while building with those materials.
Model-Based Decision Support System for Improving Emergency Response
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Meenakshi Nagarajan, Subhashini Ganapathy, Michelle Cheatham
Hazardous material incidents differ from other emergency operations in several aspects. The initial phases of a hazardous material incident consist of locating the hazardous material, followed by establishing the Incident Command System (ICS) structure. The next phase of mitigating hazardous material incidents is material identification. Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provides essential information to identify a material and the associated hazards. MSDS are only useful if the responder can comprehend the information and implement the correct actions to minimize the adverse effects of the material. Once the material is successfully identified, the incident commander implements the appropriate protective actions associated with the hazardous substance. This study focuses on implementing the decision support system during the phases of chemical identification and hazard location.
Application of Pythagorean fuzzy AHP and VIKOR methods in occupational health and safety risk assessment: the case of a gun and rifle barrel external surface oxidation and colouring unit
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2020
The corrective–preventive actions suggested for H16 involve the flammable and explosive environments measurements. In particular, by identifying flammable and flammable environments, the spark sources in these regions should be protected. Illumination equipment should be held in an explosion-proof environment. Natural gas centres should be marked with signs. The explosion protection document will be reviewed. For H20, employees should urgently be required to obtain a vocational training certificate by interviewing relevant educational institutions. For the third and fourth most serious hazards, H17 and H13, the following measures should be taken into consideration. All chemicals used in the operation should be listed in sections. An update of missing material safety data sheets (MSDS) should be provided. Then, MSDS should be supplied for all chemical intake and should be filed in the infirmary and in places where employees can access them. In particular, the storage of the chemicals should be carried out from one centre. A new and appropriate chemical storage zone should be established. During work, appropriate ear protection supplies and utilization should be ensured by evaluating the results of environmental measurements made to detect noise levels of work equipment. Employees should be trained on usage of personal protective equipment.