Chemicals agents: What are Chemicals Agents? – Health and Safety Authority
What are Chemicals Agents? – Health and Safety Authority
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Chemicals agents or chemicals are present in every workplace. For example, inks, toners, adhesives, paints, oils, lubricants, hair dye, laboratory reagents, welding fume, hazardous medicinal products and cleaning fluids are all examples of chemicals.
The term chemical agent means any chemical element or compound, on its own or admixed, as it occurs in the natural state or as produced, used or released, including release as waste, by any work activity, whether or not produced intentionally and whether or not placed on the market.
Chemical agents that have the potential to cause harm to human health or physical harm are referred to as hazardous chemical agents.
Chemical agents can exist in different forms, for example as solids (dust, fumes, fibres, powders), as liquids (vapour, mists) or gases. Different forms of a chemical may present different hazards. For example, a chemical agent in a solid form may not be hazardous but if ground into a powder or dust it may be hazardous when breathed into the lungs.
A hazardous chemical agent may be:
- Brought directly into the workplace and handled, stored and used for processing, for example, solvents, cleaning agents, glues, resins or paints.
- Generated by a process or work activity, for example, fumes from welding or soldering, dust from machining wood, flour dust or solvent vapours.
- Generated as waste or residue, for example, carbon monoxide from a generator or engine.
Where are Hazardous Chemical Agents Found?
Hazardous chemical agents can be found in nearly all work environments such as:
- Factories
- Hairdressers
- Shops
- Construction sites
- Farms
- Hospitals
- Printing works
- Dry cleaners
- Offices
- Mines, and so on.
Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals
There are four main routes by which a worker can be exposed to a dangerous chemical:
- Inhalation – by breathing in air contaminated with the chemical. This is the most common route of exposure.
- Absorption – by contact with the skin or eyes. Some chemicals can damage the skin or cause eye irritation on contact or pass through the skin or mucous membranes into the body.
- Ingestion – by accidentally swallowing the chemical, for example eating with contaminated hands.
- Injection – by injecting the chemical into the bloodstream.
What Harm can Hazardous Chemical Agents Cause to Workers?
The type of harm will depend on the hazardous chemical agent. Examples of the effects of hazardous chemical agents include:
- Asthma as a result of exposure to a respiratory sensitiser such as flour dust or soldering flux.
- Skin irritation or dermatitis as a result of skin contact with a substance such as cement or some degreasing agents.
- Cancer, which may appear long after the exposure to the chemical that caused it, such as with asbestos or benzene.
- Loss of consciousness as a result of being overcome by toxic fumes such as solvent vapours.
- Eye irritation from a splash of caustic or acid which may result in eye irritation or loss of eye sight in severe cases.
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A
- Abrin
- Adamsite (DM)
- Ammonia
- Arsenic
- Arsine (SA)
B
- Barium
- Benzene
- Brevetoxin
- Bromine (CA)
- Bromobenzylcyanide (CA) see Riot Control Agents
- BZ
C
- Carbon Monoxide
- Chlorine (CL)
- Chloroacetophenone (CN) see Riot Control Agents
- Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile (CS) see Riot Control Agents
- Chloropicrin (PS) see Riot Control Agents
- Chromium
- Colchicine
- Cyanide
D
- Dibenzoxazepine (CR) see Riot Control Agents
- Digitalis
- Distilled mustard (HD) see Sulfur mustard
E
- Ethylene glycol
F
- Fentanyls and other opioids
H
- Hydrazine
- Hydrofluoric acid (hydrogen fluoride)
- Hydrogen chloride
- Hydrogen cyanide (AC)
- Hydrogen fluoride (hydrofluoric acid)
L
- Lewisite (L, L-1, L-2, L-3)
- Long-acting anticoagulant (super warfarin)
M
- Mercury
- Methyl bromide
- Methyl isocyanate
- Mustard gas (H) (sulfur mustard)
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- Nicotine
- Nitrogen mustard (HN-1, HN-2, HN-3)
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- Opioids
- Osmium tetroxide
P
- Paraquat
- Phosgene (CG)
- Phosgene oxime (CX)
- Phosphine
- Phosphorus, elemental, white or yellow
- Potassium cyanide (KCN)
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- Ricin
- Riot Control Agents
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- Sarin (GB)
- Saxitoxin
- Selenium
- Sodium azide
- Sodium cyanide (NaCN) see Cyanide
- Sodium monofluoroacetate (compound 1080)
- Soman(GD)
- Stibine
- Strychnine
- Sulfur mustard (H) (mustard gas)
- Sulfuryl fluoride
- Super warfarin (long-acting anticoagulant)
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- Tabun (GA)
- Tetrodotoxin
- Thallium
- Trichothecene
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- VX
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- White phosphorus
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Hazardous chemical agents and explosives prohibited from moving to the transport security zone in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation dated July 23, 2015 No.
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Possibilities of implementing the provisions of the Order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation dated July 23, 2015 No. 227 at transport infrastructure facilities during inspection, additional inspection, re-examination in order to ensure transport security using identifiers of hazardous chemical agents and explosives – portable Raman spectrometers “KhimExpert”.
Substances for which there is a ban or restriction on movement to the transport security zone | Possibilities of ChemExpert software | ||||
Detection | Identification | ||||
Explosives (Chapter 2.2 X “Rules for Inspection…”) | |||||
Brisant | yes | yes | |||
Industrial | yes | yes | |||
Initiating | yes | yes based on nitrogen compounds and other mixtures with or without means of initiation | yes | yes | |
Perchlorates | yes | yes | |||
Pyroxylin, smoky and other gunpowders. | yes | yes | |||
Hazardous chemical agents (Clause 3.2 of Chapter X of the “Inspection Rules…”) | |||||
3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl-2-propanone | yes 900 15 | no | |||
Adamsite | yes | no | |||
Nitric acid | yes | yes | |||
Aconitine | yes | yes | |||
Ammonia | yes | yes | |||
Acetic anhydride | yes | yes | |||
Arsine | yes | no | |||
Aceclidine | yes | no | |||
Bi-Zet – Quinuclidyl-3-benzilate (from BZ) – 3-quinuclidyl ester of benzyl acid | yes | no | |||
Hydrogen bromide | yes | yes 0015 | |||
VI-gas, VX (from the English. VX), EA 1701 – O-ethyl -8-2-diisopropylaminoethylmethylphosphonate | yes | no | |||
Tungsten hexafluoride | yes | no | |||
Gi oscyamine – base, camphorate (L-tropyltropate (camphorate), sulfate (L-tropyltropate (sulfate) | yes | yes | |||
Glyfluoro (1,3-difluoropropanol-2 (1) 70 – 75%, 1-fluoro-3-chloropropanol-2 (2) 10-20%) | yes | ||||
Mustard gas (mustard gas) | yes | yes | |||
I-M liquid (ethyl cellosolve 50%, methanol 50%) | yes 9 0015 | yes | |||
Liquid containing sodium chloride, uranyl nitrate , 4-chlorobenzaldehyde | yes | no | |||
Sarin and Soman | yes | yes | |||
snake venom | yes | ||||
Diborane | yes | no | |||
Isosafrole | yes | yes | |||
Carbacholine (N-(beta-carbamoyloxyethyl)-trimethylammonium chloride) | yes | yes | |||
Lysergide | yes | no | |||
Lewisite | yes | no | |||
Maleic anhydride | yes 9001 5 | yes | |||
Mercaptophos | yes | no | |||
Methyl alcohol | yes | yes | |||
Arsenic anhydride and its derivatives, including their dosage forms in different dosages | yes | yes | |||
Novarsenol (5-(3-amino-4-hydroxyphenylarseno)-2-hydroxyanilinomethylsulfoxylate) | yes | no | |||
Perfluoroisobutene | no | ||||
Piperonal | yes | yes | |||
Promeran (3-chloromercury-2-methoxypropylurea) and its dosage forms in various dosages | yes | no0015 | yes | no | |
Ricin | yes | no | |||
Metal mercury and mercury salts | no | ||||
Safrole | yes | yes | |||
Sulfur dioxide | yes | yes | |||
Sulfuric acid | yes | yes | |||
Carbon disulfide | yes | yes | |||
CN – chloroacetophenone | yes | no | |||
CS – o-chlorobenzylidenemalonic acid dinitrile | yes | no | |||
Cu-Ar – dibenzoxazepine | yes | no | Hydrocyanic (hydrocyanic) acid, Zyklon-B and metal cyanides | yes | yes |
Scopolamine hydrobromide x | yes | yes | |||
Synthetic ethyl alcohol, technical and food, unsuitable for the production of alcoholic beverages | yes | yes | |||
Total belladonna alkaloids | yes | no | |||
Salts of pyrophosphoric acid | yes | yes | |||
Salts of hydrocyanic and thiocyanic acids | yes | yes | |||
Thallium and its salts | yes (salts) | no | |||
Nickel tetracarbonyl | yes | no | |||
Tetraethyl lead and its mixtures with other substances (ethyl liquid and others), except for leaded gasolines | yes | yes | |||
Phosphorus trichloride | yes | no | |||
Boron trifluoride | no | ||||
Phosgene and diphosgene | yes | no | |||
Zinc phosphide | yes | no | |||
Phosphorus white (phosphorus yellow) | yes | yes | |||
Ferrocyanides | yes | no | |||
Fluorine and strong organic acids | yes | no | yes | yes | |
Formaldehyde | yes | yes | |||
Chloroform (Trichloromethane) | yes | no | |||
Chlorine and chlorine-substituted strong organic acids | yes | yes | |||
Boron chloride | yes | no | |||
Hydrochloric acid | yes | yes | |||
Chloropicrin | yes | no | |||
Cyan hydrogen | yes | yes | |||
Cyanic and cyanuric acids, substituted fluorinated and chlorinated | yes | ||||
Oxalic acid | yes | yes | |||
Chilibukha extract | yes | no | |||
Ergometrine and its salts | yes | no | |||
Ergotamine and its salts | yes | no | |||
Ethylmercuric chloride | yes | yes | |||
Ethylene oxide | yes | no 013 | Ethylene glycol | yes | yes |
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