Chemical Hygiene Plan and Safety Manual - LP3001.5 Section I: Introduction

4.2 MSDS: Safety Data Sheet: a standardized chemical information sheet that provides workers with procedures for handling and working with materials and substances in a safe manner. It has sixteen standardized categories that include but is not limited to: product identification, hazard identification, composition information, first aid measures, accidental release measures, handling and storage, exposure controls, physical and chemical properties, stability and reactivity, and disposal considerations.

4.3 CHP: Chemical Hygiene Plan: a document that covers the specific areas of the laboratory and outlines the potential hazards.

4 4 OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration: OSHA standards are rules that describe the methods that employers must use to protect their employees from hazards

4 5 GHS: Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals is a standardized system for classifying and displaying chemical hazards The system contains nine hazard categories, and uses symbols, signal words, and hazard statements to communicate

4 6 NFPA 704: National Fire Protection Association 704 is a standard system for the identification of the hazards of materials for emergency response It was commonplace prior to the adoption of GHS, and is included here for completeness A placard placed on all chemicals denoting their stability and the hazard that they possess There are four color coded squares on the placard, blue is health, red is flammability, yellow is reactivity and white is special (including but not limited to: reacts with water, oxidizer, asphyxiant gas). Each has a scale of 0-4 depending on severity of hazard with 4 being the most hazardous.

4.7 BSL: Biosafety level. The level of the biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed facility. The levels of containment range from 1-4 depending on the danger of the hazard with 4 being the most hazardous.

4.8 Bloodborne Pathogen: Any disease that can be spread through contamination via blood or any of its constituents including blood and blood plasma.

4 9 OPIM: Other potentially infectious material This category of biohazard includes semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, pericardial fluid, peritoneal fluid, amniotic fluid, saliva and, any other bodily fluid that is contaminated with blood

4 10 Clinical Laboratory: A workplace where diagnostic or other screening procedures are performed on blood or other potentially infectious materials