Learning Module: Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
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Abstract
A Safety Data Sheet (SDS) contains valuable information and OSHA required information on a chemical - its physical and chemical properties, potential hazards, proper methods for storing and transporting, and much more. This learning module provides information on the requirements and content of Safety Data Sheets, how to locate a specific SDS, and how to interpret it. Activities allow you to demonstrate your ability to locate a specific SDS and to extract and interpret important safety information. (Note: The SDS used to be called a Material Safety Data Sheet or MSDS.)
This learning module includes the following.
- Pre-assessment
- Reading Material: Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
- Presentation: Safety Data Sheets
- Activity: SDS Research
- Activity: SDS for KOH (Potassium Hydroxide)
- Assessment: KOH SDS interpretation
- Assessment
Instructor materials for this learning module are available here.
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This work made possible by Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME), a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Center through DUE grants #0830384, 0902411, and 1205138. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and creators, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
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Southwest Center for Microsystems Education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM