What are the ratings on the HazMat Diamond?

What are the ratings on the HazMat Diamond?

The system uses a color-coded diamond with four quadrants in which numbers are used in the upper three quadrants to signal the degree of health hazard (blue), flammability hazard (red), and reactivity hazard (yellow). The bottom quadrant is used to indicate special hazards.

What is a HazMat diamond?

HazMat Diamonds It is a standard hazard rating system which provides a readily recognized, easily understood system for identifying specific hazards and their severity using spatial, visual, and numerical methods to describe in simple terms the relative hazards of a material.

What is the highest numerical rating in the HazMat diamond?

A number rating system of 0-4 is provided to rate each of the four hazards and is placed on a placard. 0 represents the least hazardous while 4 represent the most hazardous.

What is the chemical Diamond label?

The label is diamond-shaped, made up of four smaller diamonds, one each blue, red, yellow, and white. The diamond gives useful information if the material is on fire and reactive information. The diamond’s hazard information is valid under normal circumstances.

How do you read a hazmat diamond?

Within the diamond is a number (with the exception of the white diamond). The number corresponds to the level of danger a chemical poses. The lower the number, the lower the hazard. The numbers range from zero to four, with zero representing no hazard at all, and four representing an extreme hazard.

What does the HMIS rating mean?

Hazardous Materials Identification System
The Hazardous Materials Identification System (HMIS) is a hazard rating system that uses color bar labels to identify and provide information about chemical hazards. It was developed by, and is proprietary to the National Paint Coatings Association (NPCA), now known as the American Coatings Association (ACA).

What does the number 4 in the Blue Diamond mean?

The numbers superimposed over the colors rank the severity or danger, ranging from one to four, with four being the highest rating. The blue indicates potential health effects. A four in the blue means severe and immediate health effects, including death, and a one time exposure can cause lasting health problems.

What can be on a GHS label?

6 Components of a GHS Label

• Product Identifier/Ingredient Disclosure.
• Signal Word.
• Hazard Statements.
• Precautionary Statements.
• Supplier Information.
• Pictograms.

What is a hazmat code?

About The U.N. Marking System. The U.N. marking system was designed to quickly communicate several characteristics of Hazmat packaging, along with information on the test levels the packaging has successfully passed.