During last Friday, 15/06/2012, my group mates had a meeting with our supervisor in the morning at 10 a.m. According to last week's agreement on having the opportunity to visit one of the chemical labs of Singapore Polytechnic to have a clear look at how our school's chemicals are being labelled and stored, however one of the TSOs was on leave and we did not manage to get a good look on how the current chemical inventory is being used and stored.
After visiting the lab, we manage to absorb more infomation on how the Globally Harmonized System(GHS) works, with important factors that has to be put up on the stored containers such as product names, pictograms, signal word as well as hazards statement.
Currently, our school's chemical laboratory requires GHS labellings standards even for smaller containers that is being transferred out from a large storage. With this in mind, our supervisor offered us to attend a talk presented by one of our vendors, Chemwatch later in the day time.
This vendor, Chemwatch, as of our knowledge after the talk is able to provide services that caters to our needs such as GHS standards in terms of labelling as well as theirs Material Safety Data Sheets(MSDS). However, the school policy requires staffs/lecturers to purchase chemicals from vendors that are able to provide MSDS and to use the provided MSDS to be imprinted onto the labels. This would mean that the school has to use the MSDS provided by chemwatch but not the vendor that sells chemical itself.
The above is a summary on what happened during the Friday, 15/06/2012.
It will be continued....
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