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Hazardous Chemicals And Material Safety Data Sheets At VUMC

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Workplace Chemical List
1. Each department/unit needs to compile a hazardous chemical inventory list.
2. The list should include, at a minimum, these any of these products if they are used in the area:
  1. Housekeeping chemicals
  2. Compressed gases
  3. Mercury (if mercury-type sphygmomanometers are used)
  4. Chemotherapeutic drugs
  5. Any other chemical product (i.e. ferric chloride, silver nitrate)
  6. Do not include minor consumer/office products such as adhesive tape, glue, and “White-Out.”
3. The List must be reviewed, updated and signed annually.
4. The List is to be included with the department’’s annual safety report submitted to the Hospital Safety Officer.
Material Safety Data Sheets
1. A MSDS is required for every hazardous chemical used, stored or generated in the workplace.
2. There should be a MSDS for every chemical on your workplace chemical list (see 1b above)
3. The MSDS should be readily accessible to employees during each work shift when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the MSDS are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)
4. Paper copies are currently required because:
  1. According to the interpretation of TOSHA/OSHA, when a computer system is down, the access is not immediate unless there is a paper back-up “readily available.”
  2. Online MSDS are not really “readily available.”
5. MSDS are available:
  1. Here on the VEHS website's main MSDS page.
    1. MSDS for the most common products used at VUMC are listed here.
    2. Other MSDS can be found through the subscription service or other links to free services provided through this web site.
  2. From the Product Manufacturer

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