OSHA GHS Flashcards
What are the 16 GHS Physical Hazards categories?
- Explosives
- Flammable Gases
- Flammable Aerosols
- Oxidizing Gases
- Gases Under Pressure
- Flammable Liquids
- Flammable Solids
- Self-Reactive Substances
- Pyrophoric Liquids
- Pyrophoric Solids
- Self-Heating Substances
- Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
- Oxidizing Liquids
- Oxidizing Solids
- Organic Peroxide’s
- Corrosive to Metals
What are the six GHS hazard divisions for explosives?
- 1 Mass explosion hazard
- 2 Projection hazard
- 3 Fire hazard or minor projection hazard
- 4 No significant hazard
- 5 Very insensitive substances with mass explosion hazard
- 6 Extremely insensitive articles with no mass explosion hazard
What is the three-step process to the GHS classification as an Explosive and allocation to a division?
- Ascertain if the material has explosive effects (Test Series 1);
- Acceptance procedure (Test Series 2 to 4);
- Assignment to one of six hazard divisions (Test Series 5 to 7)
What is the GHS definition for a flammable gas?
A gas which has a flammable range in the air at 20 degrees Celsius and a standard pressure of 101.3kPa.
Substances and mixtures of the Flammable hazard class are assigned to one of two hazard categories on the basis of what?
On the basis of the outcome of the test or calculation method
What does “ANSI” stand for?
American National Standards Institute
What does “APEC” stand for?
Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation
What does “ASTM” stand for?
American Society of Testing and Materials
What does “CA” stand for?
Competent Authority
What does “CAS” stand for?
Chemical Abstract Service
What does “CBI” stand for?
Confidential Business Information
What does “CFR” stand for?
Code of Federal Regulations
What does “CG/HCCS” stand for?
Coordinating Group for the Harmonization of Chemical Classification Systems
What does “CPSC” stand for?
Consumer Product Safety Commission
What does “DOT” stand for?
Department of Transportation
What does “EINECS” stand for?
European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances
What does “FIFRA” stand for?
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
What does “GHS” stand for?
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
What does “HCS” stand for?
Hazard Communication Standard
What does “IARC” stand for?
International Agency for the Research on Cancer
What does “IFCS” stand for?
International Forum on Chemical Safety
What does “ILO” stand for?
International Labor Organization
What does “IOMC” stand for?
Inter-organization Program on the Sound Management of Chemicals
What does “ISO” stand for?
International Standards Organization
What does “IUPAC” stand for?
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
What does “LG50” stand for?
Lethal dose 50
What does “NAFTA” stand for?
North American Free Trade Agreement
What does “OSHA” stand for?
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
What does “OECD” stand for?
The Organization or Economic Cooperation and Development
What does “QSARs” stand for?
Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships
What does “SME” stand for?
Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
What does “TFHCL” stand for?
Task Force on the Harmonization of Classification and Labelling
What does “TSCA” stand for?
Toxic Substances Control Act
What does “UNCED” stand for?
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
What does “UNCETDG” stand for?
United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
What does “UNCETDG/GHS” stand for?
United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
What does “UNITAR” stand for?
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
What does “WG” stand for?
Work group
What does “WHMIS” stand for?
Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
What does “WSSD” stand for?
World Summit on Sustainable Development
The GHS is a “logical and comprehensive approach to” what three goals?
- Defining health, physical and environmental hazards of chemicals;
- Creating classification processes that use available data on chemicals for comparison with the defined hazard criteria;
- Communicating hazard information, as well as protective measures, on labels and Safety Data Sheets (SDS).
What four organizations in the United States have requirements regarding the classifications and labelling of chemicals?
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Department of Transportation
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
What are two things the GHS itself is not?
- A regulation
2. A standard
What is the GHS Document referred to as?
“The Purple Book”
What two things does The Purple Book include?
- Agreed hazard classification and communication provisions
2. Explanatory information on how to apply the system
The GHS Document supplies a mechanism for what two basic things?
- How to decide if the chemical product produced or supplied is hazardous;
- How to prepare a label and/or Safety Data Sheet as appropriate.
What can regulatory authorities in countries adopting the GHS do, rather than simply doing what?
They can take the agreed criteria and provisions and implement them through their own regulatory process and procedures rather than simply incorporating the text of the GHS into their national requirements.
How much $ is the global chemical business?
More than $1.7 trillion annually
How much $ does the chemical industry in America make annually?
$450 billion
How much money is made with chemical exports from America annually?
$80 billion
What six sectors have developed sector-specific regulations due to the widespread use of chemicals?
- Transport
- Production
- Workplace
- Agriculture
- Trade
- Consumer Products
What two pieces of information should be readily available for chemicals?
- Hazardous properties
2. Recommended control measures
What four aspects of chemicals must be handled safely?
- Production
- Transport
- Use
- Disposal
What are the sixteen items that count as the minimum information for an SDS?
- Identification of the substance or mixture and of the supplier
- Hazards identification
- Composition/information ingredients
- First aid measures
- Fightfighting measures
- Accidental release measures
- Hangling and storage
- Exposure controls/personal protection
- Physical and chemical properties
- Stability and reactivity
- Toxicological information
- Ecological information
- Disposal considerations
- Transport information
- Regulatory information
- Other information including information on preparation and revision of the SDS
What are the sixteen items that count as the minimum information for an SDS?
- Identification of the substance or mixture and of the supplier
- Hazards identification
- Composition/information ingredients
- First aid measures
- Fightfighting measures
- Accidental release measures
- Hangling and storage
- Exposure controls/personal protection
- Physical and chemical properties
- Stability and reactivity
- Toxicological information
- Ecological information
- Disposal considerations
- Transport information
- Regulatory information
- Other information including information on preparation and revision of the SDS
Explain, in five points, the minimum requirement to “Identify the substance or mixture and of the supplier” on an SDS form.
- GHS product identifier
- Other means of identification
- Recommended use of the chemical and restrictions on use
- Supplier’s details (including name, address, phone number, etc.)
- Emergency phone number
Explain, in three points, the minimum requirement to have “Hazards identification” on an SDS form.
- GHS classification of the substance/mixture and any national or regional information
- GHS label elements, including precautionary statements (Hazard symbols may be provided as a graphical reproduction of the symbols in black and white or the name of the symbol, e.g., flame, skill and crossbones)
- Other hazards which do not result in classification (e.g., dust explosion hazard) or are not covered by the GHS
Explain, in four/one points, the minimum requirement for “Composition/information on ingredients” on an SDS form for substances/mixtures, respectively.
Substance:
- Chemical identity
- Common name, synonyms, etc.
- CAS number, EC number, etc.
- Impurities and stabilizing additives which are themselves classified and which contribute to the classification of the substance
Mixtures:
1. The chemical identity and concentration ranges of all ingredients which are hazardous within the meaning of the GHS and are present above their cutoff levels.
NOTE: For information on ingredients, the competent authority rules for CBI take priority over the rules for product identification.
Explain, in three points, the minimum requirement for “First air measures” information on an SDS form.
- Description of necessary measures, subdivided according to the different routes of exposure, i.e., inhalation, skin and eye contact, and ingestion
- Most important symptoms/effects, acute and delayed
- Indication of immediate medical attention and special treatment needed, if necessary
What was the International Mandate?
The single most important force that drove the creation of the GHS, and was adopted in 92 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development (“Earth Summit”), which endorsed six program areas, one of which was the harmonization of classification and labeling of chemicals to strengthen international efforts concerning the environmentally sound management of chemicals.
How was the GHS developed?
In conjunction with its Convention and Recommendation on Safety in the Use of Chemicals at Work, the International Labor Organization studied the tasks required to achieve harmonization.
What are the four major existing systems that the ILO concluded were needed to achieve a global approach to the harmonization of classification and labeling of chemicals?
- UN Transport Recommendations
- U.S. Requirements for Workplace, Consumer and Pesticides
- European Union Dangerous Substance and Preparations Directives
- Canadian Requirements for Workplace, Consumers, and Pesticides
What are the 10 GHS Health and Environmental Hazards?
- Acute Toxicity
- Skin Corrosion
- Skin Irritation
- Eye Effects
- Sensitization
- Germ Cell Mutagenicity
- Carcinogenicity
- Reproductive Toxicity
- Target Organ Systemic Toxicity: Single Exposure & Repeated Exposure
- Aspiration Toxicity
What are the two types of GHS Hazards to the Aquatic Environment?
- Acute Aquatic Toxicity
2. Chronic Aquatic Toxicity
To what four sectors should the GHS Building Blocks be applied?
- Transportation
- Workplace
- Consumer
- Pesticides
What does the pictogram for Oxidizers look like?
A circle with fire coming out the top
What six hazards does the pictogram with fire indicate?
- Flammables
- Self Reactives
- Pyrophorics
- Self-Heating
- Emits Flammable Gas
- Organic Peroxides
What three hazards does the pictogram with a dark circle and an explosion coming out of it indicate?
- Explosives
- Self Reactives
- Organic Peroxides
What does the pictogram with a skull and crossbones indicate?
Acute toxicity
What does the pictogram with a dark line next to a hand and two test tubes dumping something on them which makes them corrode indicate?
Corrosives
What does the pictogram with an aerosol spray can indicate?
Gases Under Pressure
What six hazards does the pictogram with a human silluette that has some creepy white stuff spreading throughout its chest indicate?
- Carcinogen
- Respiratory Sensitizer
- Reproductive Toxicity
- Target Organ Toxicity
- Mutagenicity
- Aspiration Toxicity
What does the pictogram with a tree and a dead fish on what looks like a mountain indicate?
Environmental Toxicity
What five hazards does the pictogram with an exclamation mark indicate?
- Irritant
- Dermal Sensitizer
- Acute Toxicity
- Narcotic Effects
- Respiratory Tract Irritation
What does Category 1 Acute Oral Toxicity mean?
Fatal if swallowed at less than or equal to 5mg/kg
What does Category 2 Acute Oral Toxicity mean?
Fatal if swallowed between 5-50mg/kg
What does Category 3 Acute Oral Toxicity mean?
Toxic if swallowed between 50-300mg/kg
What does Category 4 Acute Oral Toxicity mean?
Harmful if swallowed between 300-2000mg/kg
What does Category 5 Acute Oral Toxicity mean?
May be harmful if swallowed between 2000-50000mg/kg
