Fred,
In response to your original post and some of those that have followed...
Twice a year my shop gets a general inspection from the Institute Safety Coordinator. He randomly grabs a few items from the flammables cabinet and I have to produce the MSDS within three minutes (and we are, like BYU, a private school). We (meaning mainly my student assistants) have been able to find most of the MSDSs from a few NON-subscription online sources (I will forward when I find out just where), although some older items are very tough to find paper for.
Your idea about pooling resources on this is excellent. Count me in!
Alan Eder
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu>
To: College & University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 10:45 am
Subject: [CAUT] Material data safety sheets
University policy requires that I have on file material data safety sheets for all, meaning really all, chemicals. Not that anyone has come looking, but it is clearly policy and that is probably true for most of us. Does anyone know of a fairly central place one can go for such things? Does anyone have a collection of them that could be made available?
Since we all use a lot of the same range of materials, it would make sense for us to pool efforts. Going to each manufacturer is a lot of work. Especially when it comes to all the variety. I'm looking at things like isopropyl alcohol, fabric softener, lacquer, Cory Key-brite, Mclube, Protek, various thinners, glues and adhesives of various sorts, the list is seemingly endless. Some are actually toxic in various ways, and the safety concerns are real.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu
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