Being both a manufacture and purchaser of hazardous materials, SDS are required to have the information to match SDS and train accordingly. I understand OSHA allows companies to still use the HMIS, we elected to go pure SDS on our own products due to domestic and international shipments. In the past 3+ years we have never had anyone ask about HMIS data - maybe we are just fortunate, but a Company has no requirements to do that work for an end user. Even SDS I receive daily rarely had HMIS information. 

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The simple answer is because end-users, be they companies, schools, what-not, have hazard communication in place which uses to a greater or lesser degree, HMIS.  If the SDS writer does not include it on the document, the chemical source will receive many phones asking for it.  I have been there.

So, confusion of 1-4 or 4-1 notwithstanding, both HMIS and NFPA are included along with GHS.

nl

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I'm hoping someone can tell my why, after we finally have a good system of describing acute and chronic toxicity with the GHS dose-response Categories, I'm suddenly seeing the misleading dumb old HMIS one number toxicity system showing up even on the new Sigma SDS for Cyrene.

This is really depressing.

Monona Rossol, Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety.

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