The document discusses household chemical safety, explaining the various chemical symbols used to indicate hazards like flammability, toxicity, and corrosiveness. It provides tips for safely storing chemicals away from children and cleaning up spills, noting different chemicals require unique handling and may react if mixed. Readers are directed to additional resources for more information on identifying chemical hazards and proper cleanup procedures.

1. Household Chemical Safety!!
By Farmgurl

2. What are the Chemical Symbols?

3. Compressed Gas
• Compressed gases
• Gases that have been put into liquid form so it
can be refrigerated
• Dissolved gases

4. Flammable
• Include materials and products that set on fire
easily without lots of effort.

5. Oxidizing
• These are products that have a risk of setting
on fire.

6. Poisonous
• These are materials if exposed to living things
can cause sickness, injury, or even death

7. Poisonous (with long term effects)
• These materials are poisonous if exposed to
living things and they have long term health
effects.

8. Biohazard
• These materials contain organisms that have
been known to cause diseases in humans and
animals.

9. Corrosive
• These materials destroy skin and other natural
materials. It can also eat through metals.

10. Radioactive
• These materials can dangerously react by
themselves.

11. What does the Different Shapes
Around the Symbol Mean?
• Triangle- caution
• Octagon- danger
• Diamond- warning

12. Tips about keeping these types of
products
• Keep ALL away from • Don’t store acids and
children bases together
• Put child proof locks on • Keep product in original
the cupboards that you kind of container with
put them in original labels
• Read labels

13. Opps… I Spilled!
• If or when you spill any of these kinds of
products, there are different ways to clean
them up.

14. Steps to take when cleaning up
• Wear gloves
• Act quickly
• Cover/absorb
• Ventalate
• Clean with water
* Read labels to make sure none of them need
to be cleaned up by someone trained and if
the product reacts with anything

15. • http://www.co.thurston.wa.us/health/ehhm/
whatcanyoudo.html
• http://www2.worksafebc.com/topics/whmis/s
ymbolsandlabels.asp?reportid=24384