Safety Data Sheets Annex II A Guide to Compilation

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Safety Data Sheets Annex IIA Guide to
Compilation

• James Ring
• Reach Aid

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Overview

• Objectives
• Who uses SDS
• Information on the sheet
• Problems
• Suggestions

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Who uses SDS

• Emergency response crews
• Storage personnel
• Lab personnel
• Plant personnel
• Trainers

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Objectives

• Info on material for safe usage
• Creating safe working conditions
• Info for risk assessment to be carried out
• Emergency actions
• Instructions to employees
• Dangerous substance inventory

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Information on Sheet

• Identification of the substance/company
• Uses
• Person who puts substance on the market
• Telephone number
• Hazards Identification
• Brief Hazards to Man and the Environment
• Dangerous/non dangerous
• Other hazards cross sensitisation, dustiness
  etc.

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Information on Sheet

• Composition/ Information on Ingredients
• Allow easy identification of hazards
• Dangerous
• Conc.
• Non dangerous
• Conc.
• If gt1w non gaseous
• If gt 0.2v gaseous
• Classification including symbol and R phrases
• Name and registration number
• If confidential must describe chemical nature

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Information on Sheet

• First Aid Measures
• Describe the measures/ medical attention
• Brief and easy to understand/ delayed effects
• Routes of Exposure skin, inhalation
• Professional assistance
• Immediate treatment in the work place
• Fire Fighting Measures
• Suitable/ not suitable extinguishing media
• Exposure hazards combustion gases
• Protective equipment

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Information on Sheet

• Accidental Release Measures
• Personal precautions
• Removal of ignition sources, ventilation, dust
  control
• Environmental precautions
• Drains, ground water, soil, neighbourhood alert
• Cleaning up
• Absorbent material, reduction of gases with
  water, dilution
• Also need to state never use, neutralise
  with..

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Information on Sheet

• Handling and Storage
• Precautions for safe handling
• Containment, ventilation, fire/dust prevention,
  env. protection
• Precautions for safe storage
• Design of storage room, incompatible materials,
  temp and humidity, anti-static measures

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Information on Sheet

• Exposure Controls/ Personal Protection
• Exposure limit values
• Include occupational/ biological limit values
• Exposure controls
• Full range of specific risk management measures
  to minimise worker and environment exposure
• Occupational exposure controls
• Work processes, adequate equipment, protective
  measures at source,
• personal protection equipment respiratory,
  hand, eye, skin
• Environmental exposure controls
• Control of environmental exposure

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Information on Sheet

• Physical and Chemical Properties
• General information
• Appearance, physical state, odour
• HSE Information
• pH, boiling point, flammability, explosive
  properties, solubility, relative density,
  viscosity, evaporation rate
• Other Information
• Other important parameters miscibility, fat
  solubility, conductivity

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Information on Sheet

• Stability and Reactivity
• Conditions to avoid
• Temp, light, pressure
• Materials to avoid
• Water, acid/bases, oxidising agents
• Hazardous decomposition products
• Need for stabilisers, exothermic reactions,
  change of physical appearance, on contact with
  water, degradation to unstable products.

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Information on Sheet

• Toxicological Information
• Dangerous to health effects
• Delayed, immediate and chronic effects
• Routes of exposure
• Give info on
• CMR, repeated dose toxicity, sensitisation, acute
  effects, metabolism and distribution.
• Must be in line with Chemical Safety Report

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Information on Sheet

• Ecological Information
• Ecotoxicity
• Acute and chronic for fish, crustaceans, algae.
• Problems with treatment plants micro-organisms
• Mobility
• potential to transport to groundwater or far
  from source
• Persistence and degradability
• Half lives quoted where applicable
• Bioaccumulative Potential
• Octanol-water coefficent
• PBT assesment
• Other adverse effects

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Information on Sheet

• Disposal Considerations
• If disposal presents a danger safe handling
  measures will be given
• Appropriate disposal measures
• Transport Information
• Special precautions needed
• Info on transport classification
• UN number, class, proper shipping name, packing
  group, marine pollutant, other info.

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Information on Sheet

• Regulatory Information
• CSR been carried out
• HSE info on the label
• Other Information
• R- phrases
• Training advise
• Restrictions on use
• Key data used to compile SDS

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Problems with SDS

• Problem with R and S phrases
• Physico/chemical data
• Repetition
• Complicated
• Poor lay out
• Too much text

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Suggestions

• Training in use of SDS
• Non technical descriptions
• Simplicity of language
• Guidelines for compilation