The Portal of chemical risk

To help for a better awareness and improvement of prevention of chemical injuries.

Although the informal language of many countries use the term of “burn” as well for thermal accidents as for chemical splashes, it would be judicious, as the German-speaking ones do it, to adopt different names.

The endocrine system plays an essential part in the maintenance of the biological equilibriums that are necessary for life.

Storage of many different chemicals in a laboratory setting is done following a few simple rules: * Store by chemical compatibility * Use secondary containment

The lab technician was cleaning metal parts with Hexane. The parts were placed in a beaker of Hexane which was on a hot plate.