WHMIS (Cumene)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Flammable liquids - Category 31
• Flash point = 37 °C Tag closed cup

• Carcinogenicity - Category 22 3

• Aspiration hazard - Category 14 5
• Liquid hydrocarbon with a kinematic viscosity of 0.85 mm2/s at 25 °C

Danger

Flammable liquid and vapour (H226)
Suspected of causing cancer (H351)
May be fatal if swallowed and enters airways (H304)

Ingredient disclosure

References

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• ▲3.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, A Review of Human Carcinogens: Some chemicals in industrial and consumer products, food contaminants and flavourings, and water chlorination by-products. IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans, Vol. 101. Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer. (2012).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol101/index.php
• ▲4.  Speight, J.G., Lange's handbook of chemistry. 16 éd. New York : McGraw-Hill Standard Handbook. (2005).
• ▲5.  Haynes, W.M., Bruno, T.J. et Lide, D.R., CRC handbook of chemistry and physics, 2016-2017. 97th ed. Boca Raton (FL) : CRC Press. (2016). [RS-014001]   http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/

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