WHMIS (Vinyl chloride)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Flammable gases - Category 11
• Lower flammable limit = 3,6 %

• Gases under pressure - Liquefied gas2
• Liquified gas, listed in : UN Recommendations on the TDG - Model Regulations Vol II.

• Germ cell mutagenicity - Category 23 4

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1A3 5 6

Danger

Extremely flammable gas (H220)
Contains gas under pressure; may explode if heated (H280)
Suspected of causing genetic defects (H341)
May cause cancer (H350)

Ingredient disclosure

Comments1 7 : This product is generally commercialized with an inhibitor. Therefore, the health hazard classification could be different, according to the inhibitor used and its concentration. The physical hazard classification considers the product as inhibited. However, under certain conditions (e.g. depletion or absence of the inhibitor) a hazardous polymerisation may occur.

References

• ▲1.  National Fire Protection Association, Fire protection guide to hazardous materials. 14th ed. Quincy, Mass. : NFPA. (2010). [RR-334001]
• ▲2.  Nations-Unies, «Partie 4 - Dispositions relatives à l'utilisation des emballages et des citernes - Liste des instructions d'emballage.» In: Recommandations relatives au transport des marchandises dangereuses - Règlement type - Dix-huitième édition révisée . New-York, N.Y. : United Nations. (2013). ST/SG/AC.10/1/rev. 18 (Vol. II). [MO-026856]   http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/danger/publi/unrec/rev18/French/Rev18f_Volume2.pdf
  http://www.unece.org/fr/trans/danger/publi/unrec/rev18/18files_f.html
• ▲3.  International Programme on Chemical Safety, Environmental Health Criteria 215: Vinyl chloride. Genève : World Health Organization. (1999). EHC215.   http://www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc215.htm
• ▲4.  France. Institut national de recherche et de sécurité, Fiche toxicologique no 184 : Chlorure de vinyle. Cahiers de notes documentaires. Paris : INRS. (2011).   http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox.html
  http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox/fiche.html?refINRS=FICHETOX_184
• ▲5.  American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, 2022 TLVs and BEIs with 7th edition documentation CD-ROM. Cincinnati, OH : ACGIH. (2022). Publication 0111CD. [CD-120061]   http://www.acgih.org
• ▲6.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Overall evaluations of carcinogenicity : an updating of IARC monographs volumes 1-42. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Supplement 7. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (1987).   https://monographs.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Suppl7.pdf
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/
• ▲7.  Vincoli, J.W., Risk management for hazardous chemicals : G-Z. Vol. 2. Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers. (1997). [RM-515112]

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