MSDS Homework.

Select a chemical, one of the very dangerous, chemical-sounding ones from the TRI is a good place to start. I want you to explore, by direct web searching and also by using the Vermont SIRI site links, to locate several different MSDS sheets for that chemical. What we want are two different sheets, one that looks very complete, probably following the ANSI standard, and one that looks very incomplete or at any rate has much less information than the better one. For the assignment I want you to write a long paragraph about the two sheets, who wrote them, when they were written, and the main points of difference between them. Note if the author of the sheets is a laboratory supply company, a manufacturer, or what. Careful, the site where you find the sheet may be a university or supplier, and not the "author" of the sheet. Put the URLs of the locations of the two sheets into your text and set them as a hyperlink. You'll need to do all this in Word.

The purpose of this homework is to illustrate the difference in MSDS sheets. If your TRI chemicals don't have disparate sheets, select another chemical.


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