Cuesta, Quennan C.

BSME 1-1

Activities and Assessments: ASSIGNMENT (SUBMIT your answers at EDMODO

ASSIGNMENT SECTION )

1. What does “GHS” means and why is it important?

Answer:
The acronym “GHS” means Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of
Chemicals. GHS is important because it labels and gives a brief background information to the
chemical hazard in a certain chemical. Also, the primary benefit of the GHS is to increase the
quality and consistency of information provided to workers, employers and chemical users by
adopting a standardized approach to hazard classification, labels and safety data.

2. Look for an available GHS-compliant label of hydrogen sulfide, identify the type of hazards of
the substances and the necessary measure(s) if someone inhales it.

Answer:

The types of Hazard of the

substance.
1. Physical Hazard – Fire
Hazards and Explosion Hazards
2. Health Hazard – Systemic
Effects
3. Environmental Hazard –
Acute/Chronic Aquatic Toxicity

If someone inhales it.

Remove victim to fresh air and
keep a rest in a position
comfortable for breathing.
Immediately call a POISON
CENTER or doctor/physician.
Specific treatment is urgent:
maintain adequate ventilation and
consider administration of 100%
oxygen. Sodium nitrite maybe a
useful antidote.
3. Look for an available, identify the type of hazards of the substances and the necessary
measure(s) if it gets to your eyes.

Answer:
The types of Hazard
of the substance.
1. Physical Hazard –
Reactive Hazard/Fire
Hazard
2. Health Hazard –
Systemic Effects

If it gets to your eyes.

Remove contact
lenses if present.
Flush eyes with
water or a regular
saline solution for at
least 20 minutes and
seek medical
attention
Cuesta, Quennan C.
BSME 1-1

Activities and Assessments: ASSIGNMENT (SUBMIT your answers at EDMODO

ASSIGNMENT SECTION)

1. What is Hazard?

Answer:
A brief meaning of hazard is something that can cause harm to a certain person’s health, life,
property, or any other interest of value.

2. A substance is a mixture made up of the following components

Ammonium Nitrate 71%
Water 16%
Diesel fuel 8%
An emulsifier composed of:
Oleic Acid 3%
Sodium Hydroxide (50% aq. soln.) 2%
The mixture has a paste like consistency which does not meet the GHS definition of a liquid.

Question: Considering the components of this mixture, identify the possible physical hazard
classifications for this mixture, providing reasons for your choice.

Possible classifications are: (encircle your answer)

a) Explosive – will need to consider if the mixture is intended as an explosive and which
of the complex UN tests it passes or fails

b) Oxidizing substance as a result of the ammonium nitrate component

c) Flammable solid ‐ consider whether or not the emulsified diesel fuel enables the substance
to burn as specified in the UN tests (test are essentially apply a small amount of energy
and determine whether a line of the substance would burn faster than 2.2m/s.

3. A highway patrol officer presents you with a number of small round disks about 30mm in
diameter apparently made of a soft metal of some sort. The disks are marked “railway fog signal.”
The officer explains that the disks were picked up from the side of a main interprovincial highway
and, considering the remnants of a similarly labelled cardboard box found nearby, appear to have
fallen from a truck travelling at high speed. When shown a copy of the GHS ‘explosive’ pictogram,
the officer agrees that part of the box found may have had a similar symbol on it. (The remnants
of the box are not available to you.)
Question: Classify these articles, explaining how you derived the classification of your answer.
a) Gift
b) Explosives
c) Biodegradable Material
d) Flammable

Explanation: I classify this article an explosive, because of the fact that when the Patrol Officer
agrees in the GHS ‘explosive’ pictogram. This clearly states that the disk found on the side of
the interprovincial highway marked with “railway fog signal.” Is considered explosive.
4. By Dec. 1, employers are required to have trained workers on chemical Safety Data Sheets
and labels as part of OSHA’s updated Hazard Communication Standard. Both new SDSs and
labels will feature pictograms, and workers must know what hazards these pictograms represent.
Can you match the pictograms below with the corresponding hazards?

Answers:
1. ____E______ 5. _____A______
2. ____H______ 6. _____G______
3. ____F______ 7. _____B______
 4. ____C______ 8. _____D______

5. In your own words differentiate Hazard from a Risk.

Answer:
Hazard and Risk are both terms that are clearly interconnected to each other.
Hazard is the source of the phenomena that can cause harm to a certain person’s health, life,
property, or any other interest of value.
Risk on the other hand, is the chance or probability of a certain person’s health, life, property, or
any other interest of value to experience harm.