Lab 1 - Safety and The Scientific Method Flashcards
Four types of waste disposal
Non-infectious/non-biohazard, non-sharps; non-infectious/non-biohazard, sharps; infectious/biohazard, non-sharps; infectious/biohazard, sharps
What is an SDS?
Safety Data Sheet
What does GHS stand for?
Global Harmonized System
Flame over circle: Oxidizing gases, oxidizing liquids, oxidizing solids
Flame: flammables, pyrophorics, self-heating, emits flammable gas, self-reactives, organic peroxides
Exploding bomb: Explosives, self-reactives, organic peroxides
Corrosion: Skin corrosion/burns, eye damage, corrosive to metals
Gas Cylinder: Gases under pressure
Environment: aquatic toxicity
Skull & Crossbones: Acute toxicity (fatal or toxic)
Exclamation Mark: Irritant (eye & skin), skin sensitizer, acute toxicity, narcotic effects, respiratory tract irritant, hazardous to ozone layer (non-manadatory)
Health Hazard: Carcinogen, mutagenicity, preroductive toxicity, respiratory sesitizer, target organ toxicity, aspiration toxicity
Under the new GHS scale, which is more hazardous - a 1 or a 5?
1
Measures length
Meter
Measures volume
Liter