Material Safety Data Sheet

MATERIAL SAFETY
DATA SHEET
HAZARDOUS COMMUNICATION STANDARD
PREPARED BY:
• Almonia, Godfrey Jr.

• Arcenal, Daryl
• Chavez, Melissa Mae
• Guino-o, Menchie
• Rosario, Jedenry
• Sanchez, Jessa
• Tella-in, Jason
• Tingson, Michelle
INTRODUCTION
• A Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is a document that

contains information on the potential hazards (health, fire,
reactivity and environmental) and how to work safely with the
chemical product. It is an essential starting point for the
development of a complete health and safety program. It also
contains information on the use, storage, handling and
emergency procedures all related to the hazards of the
material.
INTRODUCTION
• The MSDS contains much more information about the material

than the label. MSDSs are prepared by the supplier or
manufacturer of the material. It is intended to tell what the
hazards of the product are, how to use the product safely, what
to expect if the recommendations are not followed, what to do
if accidents occur, how to recognize symptoms of
overexposure, and what to do if such incidents occur.
INTRODUCTION
• The Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) requires chemical

manufacturers, distributors, or importers to provide Safety
Data Sheets (SDSs) (formerly known as Material Safety Data
Sheets or MSDSs) to communicate the hazards of hazardous
chemical products. As of June 1, 2015, the HCS will require
new SDSs to be in a uniform format, and include the section
numbers, the headings, and associated information under the
headings below:
SECTIONS OF THE OSHA
STANDARD 1910.1200
A. PURPOSE
1. The purpose of this section is to ensure that the hazards of all chemicals
produced or imported are classified, and that information concerning
the classified hazards is transmitted to employers and employees.
2. This occupational safety and health standard is intended to address
comprehensively the issue of classifying the potential hazards of
chemicals, and communicating information concerning hazards and
appropriate protective measures to employees, and to preempt any
legislative or regulatory enactments of a state, or political subdivision of
a state, pertaining to this subject.
B. SCOPE AND LIMITATION
1. This section requires chemical manufacturers or importers to classify the hazards of

chemicals which they produce or import, and all employers to provide information to
their employees about the hazardous chemicals to which they are exposed, by means
of a hazard communication program, labels and other forms of warning, safety data
sheets, and information and training. In addition, this section requires distributors to
transmit the required information to employers.
2. This section applies to any chemical which is known to be present in the workplace in
such a manner that employees may be exposed under normal conditions of use or in a
foreseeable emergency.
B. SCOPE AND LIMITATION
3. This section applies to laboratories only as follows:

1. Employers shall ensure that labels on incoming containers of hazardous
chemicals are not removed or defaced.
II. Employers shall maintain any safety data sheets that are received with
incoming shipments and ensure that they are readily accessible during each
workshift.
III. Employers shall ensure that laboratory employees are provided
information and training in accordance with this law.
C. DEFINITIONS
• Article means a manufactured item other than a fluid or particle.

• Assistant Secretary means the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and
Health, U.S. Department of Labor, or designee.
• Chemical means any substance, or mixture of substances.
• Chemical manufacturer means an employer with a workplace where chemical(s) are
produced for use or distribution.
• Chemical name means the scientific designation of a chemical in accordance with the
nomenclature system developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry (IUPAC) or the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) rules of nomenclature, or a
name which will clearly identify the chemical for the purpose of conducting a hazard
classification.
C. DEFINITIONS
• Classification means to identify the relevant data regarding the hazards of

a chemical.
• Commercial account means an arrangement whereby a retail distributor
sells hazardous chemicals to an employer, generally in large quantities over
time and/or at costs that are below the regular retail price.
• Common name means any designation or identification such as code
name, code number, trade name, brand name or generic name used to
identify a chemical other than by its chemical name.
C. DEFINITIONS
• Container means any bag, barrel, bottle, box, can, cylinder, drum, reaction vessel,
storage tank, or the like that contains a hazardous chemical.
• Designated representative means any individual or organization to whom an
employee gives written authorization to exercise such employee's rights under
this section.
• Distributor means a business, other than a chemical manufacturer or importer,
which supplies hazardous chemicals to other distributors or to employers.
• Exposure or exposed means that an employee is subjected in the course of
employment to a chemical that is a physical or health hazard.
C. DEFINITIONS
• Hazard category means the division of criteria within each hazard class, e.g., oral
acute toxicity and flammable liquids include four hazard categories.
• Hazard class means the nature of the physical or health hazards, e.g., flammable
solid, carcinogen, oral acute toxicity.
• Hazard statement means a statement assigned to a hazard class and category
that describes the nature of the hazard(s) of a chemical, including, where
appropriate, the degree of hazard.
• Hazardous chemical means any chemical which is classified as a physical hazard
or a health hazard, a simple asphyxiant, combustible dust, pyrophoric gas, or
hazard not otherwise classified.
C. DEFINITIONS
• Immediate use means that the hazardous chemical will be under the control of and used
only by the person who transfers it from a labeled container and only within the work
shift in which it is transferred.
• Importer means the first business with employees within the Customs Territory of the
United States which receives hazardous chemicals produced in other countries for the
purpose of supplying them to distributors or employers within the United States.
• Label means an appropriate group of written, printed or graphic information elements
concerning a hazardous chemical that is affixed to, printed on, or attached to the
immediate container of a hazardous chemical, or to the outside packaging.
• Label elements means the specified pictogram, hazard statement, signal word and
precautionary statement for each hazard class and category.
C. DEFINITIONS
• Mixture means a combination or a solution composed of two or more

substances in which they do not react.
• Precautionary statement means a phrase that describes recommended measures
that should be taken to minimize or prevent adverse effects resulting from
exposure to a hazardous chemical, or improper storage or handling.
• Product identifier means the name or number used for a hazardous chemical on
a label or in the SDS.
• Pyrophoric gas means a chemical in a gaseous state that will ignite spontaneously
in air at a temperature of 130 degrees F (54.4 degrees C) or below.
C. DEFINITIONS
• Trade secret means any confidential formula, pattern, process, device,

information or compilation of information that is used in an employer's
business, and that gives the employer an opportunity to obtain an
advantage over competitors who do not know or use it.
• Use means to package, handle, react, emit, extract, generate as a
byproduct, or transfer.
• Substance means chemical elements and their compounds in the natural
state or obtained by any production process.
D. HAZARD CLASSIFICATION
1. Chemical manufacturers and importers shall evaluate chemicals produced in

their workplaces or imported by them to classify the chemicals in accordance
with this section.
2. Chemical manufacturers, importers or employers classifying chemicals shall
identify and consider the full range of available scientific literature and other
evidence concerning the potential hazards.
3. Mixtures - When classifying mixtures they produce or import, chemical
manufacturers and importers of mixtures may rely on the information
provided on the current safety data sheets of the individual ingredients, except
where the chemical manufacturer or importer know.
E. WRITTEN HAZARD COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
1. Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard
communication program.
2. Multi-employer workplaces. Employers who produce, use, or store hazardous
chemicals at a workplace in such a way that the employees of other employer(s) may
be exposed (for example, employees of a construction contractor working on-site)
shall additionally ensure that the hazard communication programs developed and
implemented.
3. The employer may rely on an existing hazard communication program to comply with
these requirements, provided that it meets the criteria established.
4. The employer shall make the written hazard communication program available, upon
request, to employees, their designated representatives, the Assistant Secretary and the
Director.
F. LABELS AND OTHER FORMS OF WARNING
1. Labels on shipped containers. The chemical manufacturer, importer, or

distributor shall ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals leaving the
workplace is labeled, tagged or marked. Where the chemical manufacturer or
importer is required to label, tag or mark the following shall be provided:
• Product identifier
• Signal word
• Hazard statement(s)
• Pictogram(s)
• Precautionary statement(s)
2. The chemical manufacturer, importer, or distributor shall ensure that the information
provided abides this law.
3. The chemical manufacturer, importer, or distributor shall ensure that the information
provided is located together on the label, tag, or mark.
4. Solid materials
 For solid metal (such as a steel beam or a metal casting), solid wood, or plastic items that
are not exempted as articles due to their downstream use, or shipments of whole grain,
the required label may be transmitted to the customer at the time of the initial shipment,
and need not be included with subsequent shipments to the same employer unless the
information on the label changes.
5. Chemical manufacturers, importers, or distributors shall ensure that each container of

hazardous chemicals leaving the workplace is labeled, tagged, or marked in accordance with
this section.
6. Workplace labeling - the employer shall ensure that each container of hazardous
chemicals in the workplace is labeled, tagged or marked.
7. The employer may use signs, placards, process sheets, batch tickets, operating procedures,
or other such written materials in lieu of affixing labels to individual stationary process
containers.
8. The employer is not required to label portable containers into which hazardous
chemicals are transferred from labeled containers, and which are intended only for the
immediate use of the employee who performs the transfer.
G. SAFETY DATA SHEETS
1. Chemical manufacturers and importers shall obtain or develop a safety data sheet for
each hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a safety data
sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.
2. The chemical manufacturer or importer preparing the safety data sheet shall ensure
that it is in English and includes at least the following section numbers and headings,
and associated information under each heading, in the order listed below:
• Section 1, Identification includes product identifier; manufacturer or distributor name,
address, phone number; emergency phone number; recommended use; restrictions on
use.
• Section 2, Hazard(s) identification includes all hazards regarding the

chemical; required label elements.
• Section 3, Composition/information on ingredients includes information
on chemical ingredients; trade secret claims.
• Section 4, First-aid measures includes important symptoms/effects, acute,
delayed; required treatment.
• Section 5, Fire-fighting measures lists suitable extinguishing techniques,
equipment; chemical hazards from fire.
• Section 6, Accidental release measures lists emergency procedures; protective equipment;

proper methods of containment and cleanup.
• Section 7, Handling and storage lists precautions for safe handling and storage, including
incompatibilities.
• Section 8, Exposure controls/personal protection lists OSHA’s Permissible Exposure
Limits (PELs); ACGIH Threshold Limit Values (TLVs); and any other exposure limit used
or recommended by the chemical manufacturer, importer, or employer preparing the SDS
where available as well as appropriate engineering controls; personal protective
equipment (PPE).
• Section 9, Physical and chemical properties lists the chemical's characteristics.
• Section 10, Stability and reactivity lists chemical stability and possibility of hazardous
reactions.
• Section 11, Toxicological information includes routes of exposure; related symptoms,
acute and chronic effects; numerical measures of toxicity.
• Section 12, Ecological information
• Section 13, Disposal considerations
• Section 14, Transport information
• Section 15, Regulatory information
• Section 16, Other information, includes the date of preparation or last revision.
NINE CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION
THAT MUST BE PRESENT ON AN MSDS
1. Product Information: product identifier (name), manufacturer and
suppliers names, addresses, and emergency phone numbers.
2. Hazardous Ingredients
3. Physical Data
4. Fire or Explosion Hazard Data
5. Reactivity Data: information on the chemical instability of a product and
the substances it may react with
6. Toxicological Properties: health effects
7. Preventive Measures
8. First Aid Measures
9. Preparation Information: who is responsible for preparation and date of
preparation of MSDS
END!!!

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MATERIAL SAFETY

• Almonia, Godfrey Jr.

• A Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is a document that

• The MSDS contains much more information about the material

• The Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) requires chemical

1. This section requires chemical manufacturers or importers to classify the hazards of

3. This section applies to laboratories only as follows:

• Article means a manufactured item other than a ﬂuid or particle.

• Classiﬁcation means to identify the relevant data regarding the hazards of

• Mixture means a combination or a solution composed of two or more

• Trade secret means any conﬁdential formula, pattern, process, device,

1. Chemical manufacturers and importers shall evaluate chemicals produced in

1. Labels on shipped containers. The chemical manufacturer, importer, or

5. Chemical manufacturers, importers, or distributors shall ensure that each container of

• Section 2, Hazard(s) identiﬁcation includes all hazards regarding the

• Section 6, Accidental release measures lists emergency procedures; protective equipment;

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