| About This Archive | | DCHAS-L 2016 Index | | DCHAS-L Yearly Index | |
Check out Safety Emporium for your N95, N99, and face shield needs.
|
Previous by Date: Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] AIHA Honors President's Award Recipient at AIHce 2016 Date: Friday, June 17, 2016 4:05:19 PM Author: Doug Walters <waltersdb**At_Symbol_Here**EARTHLINK.NET> |
Next by Date: Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] WhatÕs the latest on carbon nanotube safety? Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 18:36:49 -0400 Author: Bruce Van Scoy |
>I have come across what appears to be a problem regarding the GHS classification for methanol and I would like to get the opinions of this group to help me convince my regulatory group to look further than this single GHS classification when creating SDSs for our organization and customers.
One helpful resource in addressing this question is likely to be the Lab Chemical Safety Summary view of data collected by the Pubchem project of the National Library of Medicine. Specifically, the page found at
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/887#section=GHS-Classification&fullscreen=true
GHS classifications from 3 sources:
EU REGULATION (EC) No 1272/2008
Safe Work Australia and the
Chemical Management Center (CMC) of Japan National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE)
These sources don't entirely agree with each other, but the PubChem record includes provence information that allows you to determine who made the GHS designation. And the NITE source provides the Rationale for their classification at the link provided by PubChem. As usual with any Internet information, NITE notes that "The responsibility for any resulting GHS labelling and SDS referenced from this site is with users", but this might provide some helpful insight into your challenge.
- Ralph
Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Chemical Hygiene Officer
Keene State College
ralph.stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu
Previous post | Top of Page | Next post