[Jewelry making - Article 00810] - [Orchid] How to read and interpret an MSDS

[Terry Ogden]

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Hi all

    MSDS stands for Material Safety Data Sheet, and is required by law
    for most products manufactured here and imported. 

    For the professionals in the group, I beg your indulgence, for the
    hobbyist and beginner, listen up, you could be hurting your family
    and yourself. Since I have been a member of this group I have been
    surprised at many turns by some of the things that have come out
    which I never learned in my regular job and never even considered
    looking up. By virtue of the fact you are on the group means you have
    internet access and therefore instant access to MSDS sheets for the
    things we use. 

    How to read and interpret an MSDS can be found at the following site
    as well as sources of information for the Canadian members of the
    group 

    http://www.ilpi.com/msds/faq/parta.html 

    This is probably the most comprehensive site I have found for
    questions on the MSDS sheet, how to interpret the codes used and what
    they mean. One study indicated that the normally competent and
    educated reader of an MSDS only understood about 60% of what the
    sheet said. This site will go a long way of moving its readers up the
    scale of understanding. 


    http://tinyurl.com/pvtdw 

    is the U.S. government site that specifies what must be in an MSDS
    and an employers responsibility for following it, compliance and
    training of employees. 

    The point of my writing is these sheets are available to all of us
    for free. They tell us things about product hazards and what to
    expect if we do not follow the manufactures recommendation or its
    anticipated use well before we become a statistic. 

    I hope you find this useful. 

Terry

 
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