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I'm hoping the NFPA diamond would be either dropped or seriously revised. The very idea that "toxicity" can be represented by a single number from 0 to 4 is misleading. First, there is no "zero" toxicity as NFPA seems to indicate. So the GHS idea of going from high numbers for low toxicity to 1 for highly toxic is better from the get-go.
And the GHS understands that extreme acute toxicity, lower levels of acute toxicity, and chronic toxicity need to be handled separately--especially because many carcinogens and reproductively hazardous substances are acutely non-toxic as demonstrated by LD50s and LD50s, skin/eye damage, respiratory and other acute expressions of toxicity.
We have a real chance here to finally teach people something real and useful in hazcom. Let's not confuse the issue with the NFPA diamond.
Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist
President: Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSE
181 Thompson St., #23
New York, NY 10012 212-777-0062
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Thought I would share this with the group. Interesting-
http://www.nfpa.org/publicJournalDetail.asp?categoryID=2915&itemID=62587&order_src=C246&cookie%5Ftest=1
Mark Ellison
Assistant Vice President-Safety Director
Sachs Electric Company
St. Louis, Missouri
The key quotes from the article inlcude:
One result of this collaboration is that OSHA does not see any reason for NFPA
704 to be revised in order to correspond with the GHS category numbering...
....
For now, NFPA and OSHA are working to ensure that the two systems can
effectively work together without significant change. Going forward, experience
from full implementation of the GHS system may demonstrate a need for slight
changes to NFPA's system, but without the expectation that it would ever be
eliminated.
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