Dangerous material
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Back to "Industrial safety"Dangerous materials are chemical materials or material mixtures (preparation), which are classified in the European Union harmonized after their hazard potential. The danger of a material or a preparation is indicated by R and S-sentences as well as Gefahrensymbole (also danger characteristics called).
Danger characteristics are among other things:
- C corrosive (corrosive)
- E explosion-dangerously (explosive)
- O fire-promoting (oxidising)
- F easy-inflammatory (flammable)
- F+ high-inflammatory (highly flammable)
- T malicious (toxic)
- T+ very malicious (highly toxic)
- Xi attractive (irritant)
- Xn injurious to health (noxious)
- N environmentally hazardous (nature polluting)
Classifications
Dangerous materials are
| corrosive, if they can destroy living fabrics during contact. Examples: Sulfuric acid, caustic soda solution, discharge cleaner | |
| explosion-dangerously, if they can explode easily. Examples: TNT, Glycerintrinitrat, | |
| fire-promoting, if they support, without being even inflammable, a burn. Examples: Oxygen, oxygen-rich salts such as potassium chlorate, peroxides, Fluor | |
| easy-inflammatory, if they can heat up at ambient temperature from air without energy input and ignite later and their flash point is in liquid condition below 21 "°C. Examples: Acetone, gasoline, ethanol | |
| high-inflammatory, if their boiling point is below 35 "°C and their flash point in liquid condition under 0 "°C. Examples: Hydrogen, Ethin, Diethylether | |
| attractive, if it, without being corrosive - with brief, longer persisting or repeated contact with skin or mucous membrane an inflammation to cause know. Examples: Potassium carbonate, Natriumcarbonat | |
| injurious to health, if they can lead with inhalation, swallowing or admission across the skin to death or cause acute or chronic health damage. Example: Potassium chlorate | |
| malicious, if they can lead in small quantity with the inhalation, swallowing or admission across the skin to death or cause acute or chronic health damage. Example: Methanol, tetrachloromethane | |
| very malicious, if they can lead in very small quantity with inhalation, swallowing or admission across the skin to death or cause acute or chronic health damage. Examples: Heroin, nicotine | |
| environmentally hazardous, if they can change water, soil or air, climate, animals, plants or micro organisms, so that thereby immediately or late environmental damage can be caused. Example: Potassium permanganate |
Legal regulation
Within the European Union member states there are European dangerous material guidelines, which are converted by the members into national right. In Germany the dangerous material regulation is the legal basis for the conversion of protection for employee/inside. If dangerous materials are packed and transported on, one speaks of danger goods. Transport on the rail and the road is regulated in Germany by different danger property goods.
In the case of an accident with a dangerous material one also often speaks of a pollutant, whose release or uncontrolled reaction led to a danger property accident.
Handling danger materials
To the employer applies:
- It exists obligation to check! Does it concern at all a dangerous
- With a dangerous material marking obligation exists!
- The appropriate safety data sheet must be present! Coworkers are right to inspection.
- Warnings must be set up!
- Coworkers with dangerous materials in contact come, must be instructed particularly and regularly!
- Depending upon dangerous material a regular preventive medical examination of the coworkers is obligation!
In Germany that is regulated handling radioactive substances (protection of the employees) in the radiation protection regulation (StrlSchV) (not in the dangerous material regulation).
Generally applies:
- Avoid
- Dam
- Contactors
If possible to harmless materials transfer. Dangerous materials as few as possible use evt. Work areas separate and/or special filters in the withdrawal systems use. If that is not enough, personal protection equipment must be put to the coworkers free of charge at the disposal.
Literature
- Dietmar Breuer, Maria Quintana, Alan Howe, Martine Demange, Carina Silvia Springer, Uribe, Ensminger, Niels Haunso, Hajo Hennig Fricke, Bruno Janis, Lidn, Miklos Naray, Mike WRIGHT: Analytic methods for chemical materials - results of the European Union project "Analytical Methods for Chemical Agents" for the evaluation from procedures to the measurement of dangerous materials in work areas. Dangerous materials - keeping clean air 65 (10), P. 407 - 414 (2005), ISSN 0949-8036
- K. - H. long, A. Hj. Gebhardt, M. Stein, B. - J. Vorath: '' Dangerous material portal in the Internet - an instrument for the operational dangerous material management ''. Achievement and wages No. 410/413, Federal union of the German employers' associations (Federal Employers Association), Berlin (Hrsg.), HEIDER publishing house, Bergisch Gladbach, 2005
- W. Hamacher, K. - H. long, T. long-hope, R. Pieper, M. Schmauder, B. - J. Vorath, L. Wienhold: '' Manual industrial safety - security and health protection on the job ''. 2. complete over work. Edition, federation publishing house, Frankfurt A.M., 2005
See also
- System for the classification and marking of chemicals, global harmonized
- Dangerous material regulation (GefStoffV)
- R and S-sentences
- Gefahrensymbole; Endangerment
- UN-number
- CAS number
- Danger diamond
- Danger property
Related links
- KMU Gefahrstoffportal dangerous material in grasp
- Dangerous material information from first hand
- Simple measure concept of dangerous materials
- GESTIS material data base
- GisChem, dangerous material information system of the professional association of the chemical industry
- Magazine of dangerous materials - keeping clean of air
- On-line tools for activities with work and dangerous materials
- Excursion for the topic of dangerous materials
- Everything to the topic: "Activities with dangerous materials" of the professional association of the chemical industry
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