Development of a safety data sheet

A number of GOST standards and methodological guidelines define and regulate the types of safety data sheets:

• materials or substances;
• dangerous object;
• institutions;
• territories;

Standard forms are provided for each type. The development of a safety data sheet for substances produced according to GOST R 12.1.052-97, and/or its availability is supervised by the Rospotrebnadzor authorities. Documents for objects that are not only particularly dangerous in terms of production features, institutions and territories are supervised by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Passports of material objects are developed on the basis of:

• Order No. 506 of 04.11.2004 "On approval of a standard passport..." of
• Methodological guidelines for risk analysis RD 03-418-01.
• GOST R 12.3.047-98. PB of technological processes.
• A number of industry-specific regulatory documents regulating the development of passports, taking into account the specifics of the industry.

The validity period is 5 years, but any changes in the activities of the enterprise or organization are reflected at least once a year.

The fundamental differences between passports are that:

• the passport for the material guarantees its safety;
• for industries or technologies that use hazardous materials, regulates their use, transportation and storage;
• for institutions or territories, they regulate the sequence of actions of personnel and special services in the event of an emergency (emergency);

In the last two cases, the passport reflects the degree of risk of an emergency.

The stages of forming a passport have significant differences, since the document for the material is not tied to production and documentary or instrumental confirmation of the absence of dangerous substances in its composition is sufficient for it. A common point for all types of documents is an abstract, which specifies:

• Information about the developers of the document.
• Justification for the development of the passport.
• Summary of the main sections.

For production facilities, institutions and territories, the development process has common stages.

1) Development of the section "General provisions", which provides complete information about the enterprise or object, their features and annotations indicating the main potential hazards. Collecting information about the personnel of the enterprise or the number of employees of the institution and the number of visitors. Collection of insurance information.

2) Analysis of the safety of the object, from the point of view of technologies and fire safety. At this stage, - the following parameters are set:

• the type of danger of the object: chemical, biological, fire and / or explosive, hydrodynamic, etc.;
• names and sizes of stocks of substances circulating at the enterprise, conditions of their delivery, storage, shipment;
• the degree of impact of damaging factors on the territory and the population in the event of an emergency and possible consequences.

To determine the impact of negative factors or the consequences of an emergency, computer modeling is used.

3) Fixing and assessing the current situation in matters of ensuring safety in the event of an emergency (availability of protective equipment, the state of evacuation routes, fire-technical equipment, etc.).

4) Determination of the competence of the management in matters of management and training of personnel in the event of an emergency.

5) Drawing conclusions and developing an action plan to eliminate shortcomings.

6) Development of situational plans.

7) Approval in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

8) Issuance of an agreed Safety data sheet.