From: Info <info**At_Symbol_Here**ilpi.com>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical safety communication challenges
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 15:59:35 -0400
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Message-ID: DCBFEE0D-FACB-4C34-BDCC-1F1B9234DF7E**At_Symbol_Here**ilpi.com
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If you are pasting in plain text be sure to uncheck the tick box marked "Check here if you pasted raw HTML code."

If you are pasting in an HTML document, check the box and be sure to include the head and body tags.

So, if you paste in this plain text example (and uncheck the box)

Synonyms: DICHLOROMETHANE

CAS Number: 75-09-2
2. COMPOSITION/INFORMATION ON INGREDIENTS
Ingredient
Methylene Chloride
CAS Number
75-09-2
Amount (%W/W)
100
* COMPONENT IS HAZARDOUS ACCORDING TO OSHA.
3. HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION
Health Hazards Acute & Chronic: Inhalation: Methylene chloride depresses the central nervous system. Skin: prolonged or repeated contact may cause irritation, defatting of skin & dermatitis. Eyes: vapors may irritate eyes.
Signs & Symptoms of Overexposure: inhalation: nausea, headache, vomiting, numbness and tingling in arms and legs and rapid heartbeat, loss of consciousness and death have occurred.

And click Demystify, you get back output with hyperlinks:

Synonyms: DICHLOROMETHANE

CAS Number: 75-09-2
2. COMPOSITION/INFORMATION ON INGREDIENTS
Ingredient
Methylene Chloride
CAS Number
75-09-2
Amount (%W/W)
100
* COMPONENT IS Hazardous ACCORDING TO OSHA.
3. HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION
Health hazardAcute & Chronic: Inhalation: Methylene chloride depresses the central nervous system. Skin: prolonged or repeated contact may cause Irritation, defatting of Skin & Dermatitis. Eyes: Vapors may Irritate eyes.
Signs & Symptoms of Overexposure: InhalationNausea, headache, Vomiting, numbness and tingling in arms and legs and rapid heartbeat, loss of consciousness and death have occurred.

Dang, rapid heartbeat should have become a link to tachycardia, http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/tachycardia.html  I'll fix that right now. Along with "dicholoromethane", "numbness and tingling" and "consciousness".  Been a while since I rand sheets through there to train it.

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On Jun 24, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Mel -SmithCharlton <melissafcsmith**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM> wrote:

Ralph, de-mystify, left me mystified when I tried to use it.

Mel

Melissa Charlton-Smith
MS-OSH/EM, NRCC-CHO
GOMEB & Associates
Lab Safety, Chemical Hygiene & Lab Management 
Consultant
304-563-6678


On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 1:14 PM Ralph Stuart <Ralph.Stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu> wrote:
> I've been saying since about 1995 we need a set of interdisciplinary dictionaries that will allow folks in one discipline to understand terms within their frameworks. Perhaps something as simple as browser plugin that lets you control-click a word for info in the context you've selected.
>
Or perhaps a SDS Demystifier such as
http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/demystify.html

> >And even within a discipline, I have also been wondering equally as long why nobody has ever come up with a search engine that lets you search in the context of your experience level.

There is a version of this feature on the American Association of Chemistry Teachers web site at
https://teachchemistry.org
where you get to identify the kinds of materials for which audience you can search for.

We have a team of CHAS members who are beginning to look at implementing something similar for the CHAS web site and it's 300+ items in the web sites archives. The project is an interesting mix of chemical safety expertise and information science...

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Environmental Safety Manager
Keene State College
603 358-2859

ralph.stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu

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