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Getting Chemical Information
CAMEO Conference 1999
Agenda
Searching the Chemical Database Using the Chemical Reactivity
Worksheet Practical Exercises
Searching the Chemical Database
Find Find All Quick Chemicals Query
Using the Chemical Reactivity Worksheet
Adding Chemicals/Chemical Groups
Getting Information on Chemicals/Chemical Groups
Practical Exercises
1: What chemical has UNNO# 1040?
Practical Exercises
2: What is the chemical with UNNO# 1001? What is its lower explosive limit?
Practical Exercises
3: What chemicals have a 4-3-4 NFPA logo? How many chemicals have a 4-4-4 NFPA logo?
Practical Exercises
4: You come upon a wreck on the freeway. One of the vehicles is a truck that has lost a pallet of boxes from which a white crystalline material has spilled. The only thing information you can see on the box is the word SLUG. What do you think the material is?
Practical Exercises
5: You are called to a facility that has reported leaking tanks of an unknown chemical. Upon arrival you see through binoculars a DOT Label with Poison Gas and a UNNO# of 1911.
Practical Exercises
5A: Find all chemicals that match these criteria DOT - Poison Gas AND UNNO# - 1911.5B: What type personal protective equipment (PPE) should you use in an emergency situation with thischemical?
Practical Exercises
5C: You now notice a cylinder with UNNO#-1017 AND DOT label-Poison Gas. What is it? 5D: Find reactivity concerns for Diborane and Chlorine.
Practical Exercises
6: There is a leaking 2,000 gallon tank at a container facility. The tank is cold and has the markings H3N and Non-flammable gas. What is in the tank?
Practical Exercises
7: You are given that the only visible part of the label on a bag has the ending of a chemical name, rox Q. What is this material?
Practical Exercises
8: What is the chemical in a 5,000 gallon tanker with a placard 1067?
Practical Exercises
9: You open a cargo container and find some 55 lb. bags thrown around and broken open. You see the following markings: HNA and carite. What is in the bags? Is water a good mitigation technique?
Practical Exercises
10: You receive a message stating the wording on a drum with a dark liquid in it is either 1270 or 1207. What do you find is the more likely wording and what is the material.
Practical Exercises
11: Given the clues Tetrachlor and 1846, what is the chemical? Are there any fire hazards associated with it?
Practical Exercises
12: A storage shed at a shipyard appears to have a gas leak and fire. According to the shop foreman, the shed stores the following chemicals: Oxygen, nitrogen, acetylene, and argon. What do you think is leaking and on fire?
Practical Exercises
13: Two tank cars overturn at a container facility. One of the tanker cars has molasses in it. The other car has a placard that reads “Flammable Gas”. Additionally, the number “4905” and the word “DIME” are listed on the car. There is a strong fishy smell in the air. What is the chemical?
Practical Exercises14: You receive a report of a container being dropped during the offloading from a container barge. When you arrive you notice a strong ammonia-like smell. You look at the Dangerous Cargo manifest and note the following chemicals listed:10 55-gal drum OXALANE UN 205643 55-gal drum DREWAMINE UN 205412 55-gal drum ANILINE UN 2357Which chemical is leaking? If more than one chemical were leaking would you need to worry about adverse chemical reactions?
Practical Exercises
15: A case falls off a truck and breaks open. A trade name on a box that spilled out says the word RAT. The area smells like garlic. A DOT label says Spontaneously Combustible. What is the chemical?
Practical Exercises
16: What could you tell about the chemicals in a drum which you can see the following: 2-CHLO, UN 2, and a DOT Label that says Flammable?
Practical Exercises
17: Find the chemical TCM. Is this chemical of concern if spilled in fairly small quantities? Is this chemical of concern in a fire?