Understanding safety data sheets as a strategy to protect humans and the environment at the laboratory

Rizkiawalia Elza,Suherman Suherman,Hadiyanto Hadiyanto,Sudarno Sudarno,Maryono Maryono

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20183109027

Abstract

Safety Data Sheet (SDS) gave important information for safe chemicals handling and widely used in communicating chemical hazards. Laboratory as one of the places associated with the consumption of a number of chemicals, then the worker in laboratory have to know the information chemicals used. The purpose of this research is to know the perception and understanding of workers in a laboratory toward SDS. The quantitative research was used and the collect data by questionnaire using Likert scale, then analyzed descriptively. The total sample of data was twenty-seven of laboratory worker people. The finding from this study showed that a great majority of people agree SDS has benefits for workers in the laboratory, agree the SDS should be available in the workplace, feel the need to know the contents of the SDS, but not so many people agree ‘I access SDS while working using chemicals’ and great majority of people feel ‘I obtained chemical information other than SDS’.

Highlights

It involves the use of a number of chemicals that may be harmful in their activities, the laboratory is considered a safe workplace because it consumes only a small amount of chemicals [1]
Questionnaire includes respondents' responses on Safety Data Sheet (SDS), SDS's important role for laboratory workers, access to SDS when working on chemicals, obtaining chemical information from other than SDS, SDS availability and the need to know the content of SDS
Research questions given to respondents to identify as follow : Q1, SDS is very useful for workers in the laboratory for safe handling of chemicals

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Introduction

It involves the use of a number of chemicals that may be harmful in their activities, the laboratory is considered a safe workplace because it consumes only a small amount of chemicals [1]. Waste reduction at the source is implemented through good management when acquiring materials, replacing toxic materials with other materials at lower hazard levels and with good laboratory practice [3] In which chemical information in Safety Data Sheet (SDS) is used to inventory the chemicals used and identify the possibility of replacement of materials with lower toxicity. The study of inventory and evaluation through SDS in a cotton / polyester fabric dyeing textile mill in Turkey found 74 of 291 chemicals can be replaced with other materials that are more biodegradable and lower toxicity levels [6]. In a study on the evaluation of Cleaner Production-Pollution Prevention in the form of Toxic

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