Chemical Plant Safety Resources

Sometimes, we forget to provide MSDS of antifreeze. It is mainly because we handle antifreeze infrequently. Taking antifreeze out of refrigerant machine and then feeding it into the machine after overhaul work finished.

In addition, most of us expect that the exposure level is too small and to have antifreeze MSDS is not necessary.

However, some of antifreeze chemicals are hazardous. For instance, methanol is very toxic chemical, which is commonly used as antifreeze agent for chilled cooling water. Another example is ethylene glycol.

Exposure level of the antifreeze shall be assessed properly in order to measure their risk to worker’s health and safety. (more…)

Carbon tetrachloride or tetrachloromethane, which is widely known as Freon 10 and halon 104, is a colorless liquid with ether like smell. Carbon tetrachloride, with chemical formula CCl4, is a toxic chemical and harmful to human’s health.

Carbon tetrachloride was widely used as solvent in laboratory, precursor for refrigerant and fire extinguisher agent. But due to its environmental problem and health effect, its used has been greatly reduced. (more…)

We have to provide MSDS for all hazardous chemicals inside the plant sites. The MSDS is published by the manufacturers and or distribute through distributors. However, in actual operation sometimes it is hard to get the MSDS and even some of chemicals which we use coming without MSDS. In this case, we have to seek MSDS for those chemicals by ourselves.

One thing that we should consider is we should get the material safety data sheet with chemical composition exactly same with the chemicals we use or at least has close chemical ingredients.   (more…)

Yesterday, we talked about how to find out information in MSDS in minutes. And now we are going to watch a video about how to read Material Safety Data Sheet or MSDS. This video actually has similar content with the previous post, but it can give you another important tips. (more…)

MSDS or Material Safety Data Sheet is a form of hazard controls. It is devoted to control chemical-related hazards. MSDS is classified into administrative control in hazard control hierarchy. Each hazardous chemical shall be completed with its MSDS.

MSDS is divided into several sections. MSDS contents may differ slightly from one organization to another organization. But they must contain the same basic information. They include hazardous chemical ingredients, health effect, exposure limit, physical and chemical properties and special control methods.

To find out information we require in MSDS, refer to the following section for quick reference. (more…)