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What You’ll Find on an MSDSWhat You’ll Find on an MSDS

From BLR and The Horizon Goodwill Safety Committee

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Goals: This safety session Goals: This safety session should teach employees to:should teach employees to:

• Recognize key MSDS hazard and Recognize key MSDS hazard and protection information.protection information.

• Read and use MSDSs to work safely with Read and use MSDSs to work safely with chemicals.chemicals.

Applicable OSHA Regulations: 29 CFR 1910.1200Applicable OSHA Regulations: 29 CFR 1910.1200


OSHA Requires a Material OSHA Requires a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for

Every Chemical and Hazardous Every Chemical and Hazardous Substance in the WorkplaceSubstance in the Workplace

• Chemical manufacturers must prepare Chemical manufacturers must prepare them and provide them to users.them and provide them to users.

• Employers must have an easily available Employers must have an easily available MSDS for each workplace chemical.MSDS for each workplace chemical.


MSDS Hazard and Protection MSDS Hazard and Protection Information is a Guide to Information is a Guide to Working Safely With the Working Safely With the

ChemicalChemical

• Before starting any job Before starting any job with a chemical, read with a chemical, read the MSDS and follow its the MSDS and follow its precautions.precautions.


Identification Data Tells what Identification Data Tells what You’re Working WithYou’re Working With

• Chemical name, hazardous ingredients Chemical name, hazardous ingredients and dateand date MSDS was prepared MSDS was prepared

• Worker exposure limitsWorker exposure limits, such as OSHA’s , such as OSHA’s Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL)

• Manufacturer/supplierManufacturer/supplier name, address, name, address, emergency phone numberemergency phone number


Physical and Chemical Physical and Chemical Changes Changes

Can Affect the Can Affect the Type and Degree of HazardType and Degree of Hazard

• Normal appearance and odor:Normal appearance and odor: Any change Any change could mean greater Risk.could mean greater Risk.

• Boiling point/melting point:Boiling point/melting point: Temperature Temperature at which the chemical changes from liquid at which the chemical changes from liquid to breathable gas or from solid to liquid-to breathable gas or from solid to liquid-changing the hazard and needed changing the hazard and needed protections.protections.


Physical and Chemical Physical and Chemical Changes Changes

Can Affect the Can Affect the Type and Degree of HazardType and Degree of Hazard

• Vapor pressure/vapor density/evaporation Vapor pressure/vapor density/evaporation rate:rate: Rate and ease with which the chemical Rate and ease with which the chemical evaporates or rises in air, which can increase evaporates or rises in air, which can increase the risk of inhaling the chemicalthe risk of inhaling the chemical

• Solubility in water/specific gravity:Solubility in water/specific gravity: The The chemical’s ability to dissolve, sink, or float in chemical’s ability to dissolve, sink, or float in water.water.

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The MSDS Identifies The MSDS Identifies Fire & Explosion Risk Factors Fire & Explosion Risk Factors

and Protectionsand Protections

• Flash Point:Flash Point: Lowest temperature at which Lowest temperature at which an ignition source (e.g., a spark) could an ignition source (e.g., a spark) could make the substance’s vapors catch fire.make the substance’s vapors catch fire.

-The lower the number, the greater the -The lower the number, the greater the chance of ignition. chance of ignition.


The MSDS Identifies The MSDS Identifies Fire & Explosion Risk Factors Fire & Explosion Risk Factors

and Protectionsand Protections

• Flammable and explosive limits:Flammable and explosive limits: Higher Higher and lower concentrations of vapor in the and lower concentrations of vapor in the air that will catch fire or explode if they air that will catch fire or explode if they contact and ignition sourcecontact and ignition source

• Firefighting:Firefighting: What material to use (water, What material to use (water, foam, etc.) to put out a fire containing this foam, etc.) to put out a fire containing this substancesubstance

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Reactivity Data Tell How the Reactivity Data Tell How the Chemical Reacts With Other Chemical Reacts With Other

SubstancesSubstances

Contact with air, heat, water, or another Contact with air, heat, water, or another specific chemical could cause fire or specific chemical could cause fire or explosion, or release flammable or toxic explosion, or release flammable or toxic gases.gases.

• Stability/Instability:Stability/Instability: How well the chemical How well the chemical resists change or disintegration and what resists change or disintegration and what situations make it less stablesituations make it less stable


Reactivity Data Tell How the Reactivity Data Tell How the Chemical Reacts With Other Chemical Reacts With Other

SubstancesSubstances

• Incompatibility:Incompatibility: What substances What substances (including air or water) may cause a (including air or water) may cause a dangerous reaction if chemical is exposed dangerous reaction if chemical is exposed to them during use or storage.to them during use or storage.

• Hazardous decomposition/byproducts or Hazardous decomposition/byproducts or polymerization:polymerization: The kind of hazardous The kind of hazardous products or reactions that could result if products or reactions that could result if the chemical breaks down or reactsthe chemical breaks down or reacts

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Health Hazards Health Hazards Explain the Potential Results Explain the Potential Results

of Worker Exposureof Worker Exposure

• How the chemical enters the body:How the chemical enters the body: Inhaling, swallowing, skin or eye contactInhaling, swallowing, skin or eye contact

• Type of health effects:Type of health effects: Acute (develop Acute (develop right after exposure, like skin burns) or right after exposure, like skin burns) or chronic (develop over time, e.g., cancer)chronic (develop over time, e.g., cancer)




• Signs or symptoms of exposure:Signs or symptoms of exposure: Headache, rashes, dizziness, etc.Headache, rashes, dizziness, etc.

• Cancer-causing potentialCancer-causing potential

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• Health conditions exposure might make Health conditions exposure might make worse:worse: Breathing or heart problems, etc. Breathing or heart problems, etc.

• What to do if exposed:What to do if exposed: First aid measures First aid measures to take while waiting for medical help.to take while waiting for medical help.

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Control Measures Include Ways Control Measures Include Ways

to Handle the Substance Safelyto Handle the Substance Safely

• Usage precautions:Usage precautions: Using ventilation, Using ventilation, avoiding heat, practicing good hygiene, etc.avoiding heat, practicing good hygiene, etc.

• Emergency response:Emergency response: What to do if there’s What to do if there’s a spill, leak, or accidental release.a spill, leak, or accidental release.

• Personal protective equipment (PPE):Personal protective equipment (PPE): What What to use to prevent exposure (type of to use to prevent exposure (type of respirator, gloves, eye protection, respirator, gloves, eye protection, protective clothing)protective clothing)


Conclusion: Use MSDSs Conclusion: Use MSDSs to Identify Chemical Hazards to Identify Chemical Hazards and Take Safety Precautionsand Take Safety Precautions

Always read the MSDS before you work Always read the MSDS before you work with a chemical, so you will understand with a chemical, so you will understand the substance’s hazards, circumstances the substance’s hazards, circumstances that increase the risk of hazards, and that increase the risk of hazards, and equipment and procedures you can use to equipment and procedures you can use to prevent accidents and dangerous prevent accidents and dangerous exposure.exposure.


Additional Information….Additional Information….Want to know more about MSDS?Want to know more about MSDS?

• Ask your supervisorAsk your supervisor

• Check the MSDS book in your departmentCheck the MSDS book in your department

• Check the Safety section of the Employees Check the Safety section of the Employees Only websiteOnly website

• E-mail questions or concerns to E-mail questions or concerns to [email protected]@goodwill-hgi.org

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