OregonOSHA FACT SHEET

What are safety data sheets?

Safety data sheets (SDS) are detailed information bulletins prepared by the manufacturer or importer of a chemical that describes the physical and chemical properties, physical and health hazards, routes of exposure, precautions for safe handling and use, emergency and first-aid procedures, and control measures. General Industry Information on safety data sheets aid in the selection of safe products and helps prepare employers and employees to respond effectively to daily exposure situations as well as to emergency situations. Subdivision 2/Z 1910.1200 Employer responsibilities When are safety data sheets required? Employers must ensure that each employee has Oregon OSHA looks at the usage of materials in Agriculture a basic knowledge of how to find information a workplace in two ways: consumer usage and on safety data sheets and how to properly occupational usage. Subdivision 4/Z make use of that information. Employers • Consumer usage is when you use the 437-004-9800 also must ensure the following is product in a similar manner and provided: frequency as you would use • Complete and accurate the product in your home or safety data sheets during garage (consumer products each work shift. used in a consumer fashion). • Information for each • Occupational usage occurs hazardous chemical. when employees use a chemical to • Training on safety data sheets. accomplish the duties of their job more frequently or in greater quantity than what Employee rights a consumer would use, or when the product • Your workplace is required to have safety data www.orosha.org is used in a manner for which it was not sheets available for every hazardous chemical originally designed. or substance you use or encounter as a part of Salem Central Office your job. For example: 350 Winter St. NE, Rm. 430 • Safety data sheets must be readily available 1) If employees use Windex to periodically clean Salem, OR 97301-3882 for you to review at any time when you are in a computer monitor in their work area and that the workplace. In other words, they cannot be container lasts several months, you probably do Phone: 503-378-3272 locked in an office or filing cabinet where you not need a safety data sheet. Toll-free: 800-922-2689 do not have access. 2) If housekeeping employees use Windex on a daily Fax: 503-947-7461 • If you request to see a safety data sheet for a or even weekly basis, you most likely will need a product you use at work, your employer must safety data sheet and must train your employees provide it. If you do not know where the safety on its contents. data sheets for your area kept – find out! 3) If employees use Windex to clean auto parts instead of windows, you would need to train employees on the safety data sheet information. What are safety data sheets? – continued

Where do employers get How are safety data sheets used? safety data sheets? Employers use safety data sheets for training Chemical manufacturers, importers, and and to provide accurate information to distributors must provide safety data sheets employees who are exposed to hazardous assessing the hazards of chemicals with the chemicals. Employees must be trained on the first shipment of any hazardous chemical they physical and health hazards of the chemicals provide to a user or upon request. Safety data in the workplace, the recommended measures sheets may also be obtained from retailers that to use products safely, and recommended sell the materials or from the Internet. emergency procedures for cleaning up a spill or release of chemicals.

What information is required on safety data sheets?

Safety data sheets must contain the • Accidental release measures include • Toxicological information includes routes following information: emergency procedures, protective of exposure, related symptoms (acute and • Identification includes product identifier; equipment, and proper methods of chronic effects), and numerical measures manufacturer or distributor name, containment and cleanup. of toxicity. address, and phone number; emergency • Handling and storage includes precautions • Ecological information* phone number; recommended use; and for safe handling and storage, including • Disposal considerations* restrictions on use. incompatibilities. • Transport information* • Hazard identification includes all hazards • Exposure controls and personal protection • Regulatory information* regarding the chemical and required label includes OSHA’s permissible exposure elements. limits (PELs), ACGIH threshold limit values • Other information includes the date of preparation or last revision. • Composition and information on (TLVs), and any other exposure limit used ingredients includes information on by the chemical manufacturer, importer, *Note: Since other agencies regulate this chemical ingredients and trade secret or employer preparing the SDS. It also information, OSHA does not enforce Sections claims. includes appropriate engineering controls; 12 through 15 [See 1910.1200(g)(2)]. • First-aid measures include important personal protective equipment (PPE). symptoms or effects (acute or delayed) • Physical and chemical properties include and required treatment. the chemical’s characteristics. • Fire-fighting measures include suitable • Stability and reactivity include chemical extinguishing techniques and equipment, stability and possibility of hazardous as well as chemical hazards from fire. reactions.

Globally Harmonized System Pictograms

Health Hazard Exclamation Mark Flame • Flammables • Carcinogen • Irritant (skin and eye) • Pyrophorics • Mutagenicity • Skin Sensitizer • Self-Heating • Reproductive Toxicity • Acute Toxicity • Emits Flammable Gas • Respiratory Sensitizer • Narcotic Effects • Self-Reactives • Target Organ Toxicity • Respiratory Tract Irritant • Organic Peroxides • Aspiration Toxicity • Hazardous to Ozone Layer (non-mandatory)

OR-OSHA (Rev 3/16) FS-27

The Standards and Technical Resources Section of Oregon OSHA produced this fact sheet to highlight our programs, policies, or standards. The information is from the field staff, research by the technical resources staff, and published materials. We urge readers to consult the actual rules as this fact sheetExploding information is Bombnot as detailed. Corrosion Environment • Explosives • Skin Corrosion/Burns (non-mandatory) • Self-Reactives • Eye Damage • Aquatic Toxicity • Organic Peroxides • Corrosive to Metals

Gas Cylinder Flame Over Circle Skull and • Gases Under Pressure • Oxidizers Crossbones • Acute Toxicity (fatal or toxic)