Safety Data Sheet : FDS or MSDS

The l Safety Data Sheet (SDS) is a form containing data on the properties of a chemical substance. The format used in North America is called MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet). On our website, when it is necessary, you will find safety sheets, often an MSDS link that you can download associated with the product. This safety sheet is written by the supplier obligatorily. In the quality approach of the laboratory, requires in the heading hygiene and security to have available the safety sheets of the products in your possession. If you change supplier, you are obliged to have the security card of the supplier. These sheets are an important element of health and safety at work, at the workplace for the users of the products and for those who treat their remains, residues, or waste soiled by these toxic and / or dangerous products but also upstream. for those who work on the ergonomics of workstations or the design of procedures, and downstream for caregivers, by informing workers and emergency personnel (including poison control centers) about the risks associated with these products and ways to reduce them. These cards are widely used to catalog information on chemicals. We must be able to find them wherever a substance is used. In Europe, they must be distributed by the manufacturer or distributor of the product to the customer and in the language of the latter.