EPA Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) - designated hazardous substances when the focus of a CERCLA remedial action; Food, drugs, cosmetics, tobacco and tobacco products; Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; Biological hazards; Wood and wood products as long as they will not be processed and the only potential hazards are flammability or combustibility; and Nuisance particles which pose no physical or health hazard. Hazard statement: 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: 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. Health hazard: A chemical is classified as posing one of the following hazardous effects: acute toxicity (any route of exposure); skin corrosion or irritation; serious eye damage or eye irritation; respiratory or skin sensitization; germ cell mutagenicity; carcinogenicity; reproductive toxicity; specific target organ toxicity (single or repeated exposure); or aspiration hazard. Immediate use: 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. An appropriate group of written, printed or graphic information Label: 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: The specified pictogram, hazard statement, signal word and precautionary statement for each hazard class and category. Mixture: A combination or a solution composed of two or more substances in they do not react. Physical hazard: A chemical that is classified as posing one of the following hazardous effects: explosive; flammable (gases, aerosols, liquids, or solids); oxidizer (liquid, solid or gas); self-reactive; pyrophoric (liquid or solid); organic peroxide; corrosive to metal; gas under pressure; or in contact with water emits flammable gas.
EPA Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) - designated hazardous substances when the focus of a CERCLA remedial action; Food, drugs, cosmetics, tobacco and tobacco products; Ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; Biological hazards; Wood and wood products as long as they will not be processed and the only potential hazards are flammability or combustibility; and Nuisance particles which pose no physical or health hazard. Hazard statement: 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: 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. Health hazard: A chemical is classified as posing one of the following hazardous effects: acute toxicity (any route of exposure); skin corrosion or irritation; serious eye damage or eye irritation; respiratory or skin sensitization; germ cell mutagenicity; carcinogenicity; reproductive toxicity; specific target organ toxicity (single or repeated exposure); or aspiration hazard. Immediate use: 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. Label: 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: The specified pictogram, hazard statement, signal word and precautionary statement for each hazard class and category. Mixture: A combination or a solution composed of two or more substances in they do not react. Physical hazard: A chemical that is classified as posing one of the following hazardous effects: explosive; flammable (gases, aerosols, liquids, or solids); oxidizer (liquid, solid or gas); self-reactive; pyrophoric (liquid or solid); organic peroxide; corrosive to metal; gas under pressure; or in contact with water emits flammable gas.