WHMIS (Creosote oil)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Flammable liquids - Category 41
• Flash point > 71°C Tag closed cup

• Skin corrosion/irritation - Category 22 3 4

• Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 22 3 4

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1B3 5 6

Danger

Combustible liquid (H227)
Causes skin irritation (H315)
Causes serious eye irritation (H319)
May cause cancer (H350)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  United States Coast Guard et Department of Transport, Chemical Hazards Response Information System (CHRIS). Washington, D. C. : United States Coast Guard. (1999).   http://www.suttercountyfire.org/YSHMRT/CHRIS%20MANUAL%20CIM_16465_12C.pdf
• ▲2.  Bingham, E., Cohrssen, B. et Powell, C.H., Patty's toxicology. A Wiley-Interscience publication, 5ème éd. New York (NY) : John Wiley & Sons. (2001). [RM-214008]
• ▲3.  IPCS (International Programme on Chemical Safety, Creosote. ICSC#0572. IPCS, CEC. (2003).   http://www.inchem.org/documents/icsc/icsc/eics0572.htm
• ▲4.  International Program on Chemical Safety, Coal Tar Creosote. Concise International Chemical Assessment. Genève : World Health Organization. (2003). CICAD 62.   http://www.inchem.org/documents/cicads/cicads/cicad62.htm#8.0
• ▲5.  Report on Carcinogens, 15th edition. Research Triangle Park, NC : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program. (2021).   https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/pubhealth/roc/index-1.html
• ▲6.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Some Non-heterocyclic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Related Industrial Exposures. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 92. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2010).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol92/mono92.pdf

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