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Introduction to UN Hazard Codes

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

chemical-hazards-listUN has established hazard codes for hazardous substances. The codes are classified into 9 classes, where certain classes are divided into some sub-classes.

Hazard coding is given based on hazard characteristic of each substance. It is very important to know these hazard codes in case of hazard controls.

Here are these 9 hazard codes established by UN. (more…)