AS/NZS 2243.2:2006

AS/NZS 2243.2:2006 SAFETY IN LABORATORIES - CHEMICAL ASPECTS

PREFACE

CONTENTS

SECTION 1 SCOPE AND GENERAL

1.1 SCOPE

1.2 APPLICATION

1.3 REFERENCED AND RELATED DOCUMENTS

1.4 DEFINITIONS

1.4.1 Auto-ignition temperature

1.4.2 Bund

1.4.3 Combustible liquid (Australia only)

1.4.4 Material safety data sheet (MSDS)

1.4.5 May

1.4.6 Risk assessment

1.4.7 Shall

1.4.8 Should

1.4.9 Signal words (Australia only)

SECTION 2 PLANNING FOR CHEMICAL SAFETY

SECTION 3 CHEMICAL SAFETY MANAGEMENT

3.1 GENERAL

3.2 MANAGEMENT SYSTEM COMPONENTS

3.2.1 General

3.2.2 Safety information

3.2.3 Security

3.2.4 Storage and handling of chemicals

3.2.5 Maintenance of laboratory services and cleaning of laboratories

3.2.6 Health surveillance

3.2.7 Safety equipment

3.2.8 Laboratory chemical wastes

3.3 CHEMICAL SAFETY PRACTICES

3.3.1 Principles of protection

3.3.2 Environmental considerations

3.3.3 Housekeeping

3.4 SPILL MANAGEMENT

3.4.1 General

3.4.2 Planning

3.4.3 Spills inside fume cupboards

3.4.4 Spills outside fume cupboards

3.5 FIRE, EMERGENCY AND RESCUE PROCEDURES

SECTION 4 SAFE USE OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES

4.1 GENERAL

4.2 CHEMICAL HAZARDS

4.3 GASES

4.3.1 General

4.3.2 Handling of gases, compressed or liquefied (other than cryogenic liquids)

4.3.3 Handling of cryogenic fluids

4.4 FLAMMABLE CHEMICALS

4.4.1 General

4.4.2 Precautions for highly flammable liquids

4.4.3 Special sources of danger

4.4.4 Precautions for Class 4 substances (dangerous solids)

4.5 TOXIC (POISONOUS) CHEMICALS

4.5.1 General

4.5.2 Toxic dusts

4.6 CORROSIVE SUBSTANCES

4.7 UNSTABLE CHEMICALS

4.8 HIGHLY REACTIVE CHEMICALS

APPENDIX A - LIST OF REFERENCED AND RELATED DOCUMENTS

A1 REFERENCED DOCUMENTS

A2 REFERENCES

A3 RELATED DOCUMENTS

A4 INTERNET RESOURCES

APPENDIX B - LABEL FOR CHEMICAL WASTES

APPENDIX C - THE USE OF ABSORBENT MATERIALS AND SPILL KITS

C1 SCOPE

C2 CLEAN-UP PROCEDURES

APPENDIX D - HANDLING OF CRYOGENIC FLUIDS

D1 SCOPE

D2 GENERAL

D3 VENTILATION

D4 PERSONAL PROTECTION FOR CRYOGENIC FLUIDS

D4.1 Protection of face

D4.2 Protection of hands

D4.3 Protection of the body

D5 HANDLING

D5.1 General

D5.2 Air condensation and oxygen enrichment

D5.3 Working at reduced pressure

D5.4 Proprietary equipment

D6 STORAGE AND TRANSPORT

D6.1 General

D6.2 Bulk storage units

D7 TRANSFER TECHNIQUES

D8 EMERGENCY MEASURES AND FIRST AID

D8.1 Cold contact burns

D8.2 First aid and general treatment

APPENDIX E - EXAMPLES OF COMMONLY USED HIGHLY FLAMMABLE CHEMICALS

E1 GENERAL

E2 ORGANIC

E3 INORGANIC AND ORGANO-METALLIC

APPENDIX F - HAZARDOUS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH COMMONLY USED HIGHLY REACTIVE CHEMICALS

F1 SCOPE

F2 ACID SALTS

F3 SODAMIDE

F4 GASEOUS HALOGENS

F5 METALS, METAL HYDRIDES, METAL ALKYLS

F5.1 Alkali metals, lithium, sodium, potassium

F5.2 Powdered metals, including magnesium, aluminium, zinc, iron

F5.3 Metal alkyls

F5.4 Metal hydrides

F5.5 Metal phosphides

F6 OXIDIZING AGENTS-CHLORATES AND NITRATES

APPENDIX G - HAZARDOUS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH COMMONLY USED TOXIC CHEMICALS

G1 SCOPE

G2 TOXIC CHEMICALS

G2.1 Amines

G2.2 Benzene

G2.3 Bromine

G2.4 Carbon monoxide

G2.5 Carbon disulfide

G2.6 Carbonyl, nickel carbonyl, iron carbonyl

G2.7 Chlorinated hydrocarbons

G2.8 Chromium compounds

G2.9 Cyanides, hydrogen cyanide

G2.10 Ethidium bromide

G2.11 Formaldehyde

G2.12 Hydrofluoric acid, hydrogen fluoride, potassium hydrogen fluoride

G2.13 Lead salts and lead-containing dusts

G2.14 Mercury

G2.15 Nitrobenzene

G2.16 Phenol

G2.17 Pyridine

G2.18 Sulfur dioxide

G2.19 Thallium and its compounds

APPENDIX H - HAZARDOUS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH COMMONLY USED CORROSIVE SUBSTANCES

H1 SCOPE

H2 STRONG ACIDS

H2.1 Hydrochloric acid, hydrogen chloride

H2.2 Hydrofluoric acid, hydrogen fluoride

H2.3 Nitric acid, fuming nitric acid

H2.4 Sulfuric acid, oleum and chlorosulfonic acid

H2.5 Acid cleaning mixtures

H3 STRONG BASES

H3.1 Sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, calcium oxide

H3.2 Ammonia solutions

H4 HALIDES-BORON TRICHLORIDE, BORON TRIBROMIDE, SILICON TETRACHLORIDE, ALUMINIUM CHLORIDE, TITANIUM CHLORIDE

APPENDIX I - HAZARDOUS PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH COMMONLY USED UNSTABLE SUBSTANCES

I1 SCOPE

I2 UNSTABLE SUBSTANCES

I2.1 Acetylene and acetylides

I2.2 Azides and silvering solutions

I2.3 Azo and diazo compounds

I2.4 Chlorates and perchlorates

I2.5 Chlorides of aluminium, silicon, tin (IV) and titanium

I2.6 Ethers, dioxane, tetrahydrofuran

I2.7 Monomers

I2.8 Nitro-compound, picric acid, trinitrobenzene

I2.9 Peroxides

APPENDIX J - HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF PERCHLORIC ACID

J1 INTRODUCTION

J2 PROPERTIES OF PERCHLORIC ACID

J3 HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF PERCHLORIC ACID

J4 SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS

J5 LABORATORY PRACTICE

J6 DISMANTLING AN EXHAUST VENTILATION SYSTEM SUSPECTED OF CONTAMINATION WITH PERCHLORATES

J7 REFERENCES ON PERCHLORIC ACID AND PERCHLORATES