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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:12:46 -0700
Reply-To: "Souder, Maggie" <Maggie.Souder**At_Symbol_Here**EHS.UCR.EDU>
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From: "Souder, Maggie" <Maggie.Souder**At_Symbol_Here**EHS.UCR.EDU>
Subject: Chemical and Biological Inventory Hazard Analysis
Univ. of CA, Riverside and Univ. of CA, Irvine are working together to
include chemical hazard data in our chemical inventories and are very
interested in a database including this information.
Some classification information was gathered from existing lists (e.g.,
regulatory agency data/lists, etc.) and the company doing our on-line
inventory management has written script to aid us in manual data mining from
MSDSs (flash point, pH, toxicity data, etc.). Currently we have students
performing the data mining.
Our efforts to classify our inventoried chemicals from regulatory agency
lists were disappointing since many regulatory databases have short lists
compared to what is found in a research institution. Our own old, in-house
classifications (from previous inventory management systems) were considered
unreliable due to the probably inconsistent, undocumented decision-making
methods used years ago.
Regards,
Maggie
Maggie Souder
Environmental/HazMat Specialist
University of California, Riverside
Environmental Health & Safety
Riverside, CA 92521-0306
www.ehs.ucr.edu
(909) 827-6303
(909) 827-5122 - FAX
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Behalf Of Jay Rappaport
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:30 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: Chemical and Biological Inventory Hazard Analysis
I would like to know what environmental health and safety departments
elsewhere have in the way of chemical and biological inventory analysis
software. We are developing an application for Temple University that
analyzes inventories for hazardous chemicals based on various hazardous
chemical lists, in addition to the NFPA data, peroxide formers, chemicals
listed by the drug enforcement agency and performs EPCRA analysis for EPA
reporting. Based on this information, chemical and biological inventories
can be analyzed by safety personnel and transmitted to emergency responders
as needed. Is this something other organizations need as well?
Jay Rappaport, Ph.D.
Professor and Temple University IBC Chair
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