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Date:
Jun 2, 2010 15:02 UTC
Author:
NEAL LANGERMAN <neal**At_Symbol_Here**CHEMICAL-SAFETY.COM>
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Re: R-S Phrases
Date:
Jun 2, 2010 15:18 UTC
Author:
Allan Astrup Jensen <aaj**At_Symbol_Here**FORCE.DK>
From:
Rob Toreki <info**At_Symbol_Here**ILPI.COM>
Subject:
Re: GHS Pictograms for Hazard Classes
Date:
Jun 2, 2010 15:16 UTC
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You can print them
yourself with labels you get from Office Depot, Staples etc. You
can find large scale images on
http://en.wiki
pedia.org/wiki/GHS_hazard_pictograms by clicking on any of the
pictograms - note beneath the large scale image that this calls up are
even larger scale options. This will allow you to print really
nice labels at just about any size.
As far as
commercial availability, I'm not aware of a domestic source for these
but am sure the list will let us know! At my company, Safety
Emporium, we are still waiting for our suppliers to start printing these
on rolls, but it hasn't happened yet. Brady Europe does offer
them:
http://www.en.bradyeurope.com/bradyeurope/cms/contentView.do?
contentId=1976 but these are not currently available through their
US distributors such as ourselves. I have put in a request for
these.
If you happen to own a Brady
printer (Handimark, Minimark, Globalmark, Powermark) with Markware
software, that page I just referenced has a software patch so you can
print any of those designs yourself. I will download and install
it on ours today, so if anyone has questions about that or the printers,
you can contact me off-list.
Rob
Toreki
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Safety
Emporium - Lab & Safety Supplies featuring brand
names
On Jun 2, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Peifer, Patricia
wrote:
My company receives raw
materials in for testing and traditionally we have put a label on the
boxes to indicate any potential health/handling hazards, for example
flammable, corrosive, oxidizer, etc. I believe this system
started years ago because it was felt that analysts who test the raw
materials may not check the MSDS, although we tell them they are
required to do so. (Most of our raw materials are not
hazardous or are only minimally so)
I do not like the current labels we
are using and am thinking about seeing if I can obtain the nine
different GHS pictogram labels for Hazard classes to use instead.
I think they are better and cover a wider range of potential
hazards. I am wondering if anyone else is doing this and how they
feel about the GHS pictograms. I do not know as much about
GHS as I should, but my understanding is that these pictograms will be
on MSDSs in the US somewhere down the road.
Pat Peifer
Project Manager, Health Safety and Training
West Pharmaceutical
Services
