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(II) Rating Definitions of NFPA Diamond Symbol (Complete this item in laboratory notebook)
Copy the NFPA rating definitions from 0 to 4 for each of the four specific areas in the diamond symbol (i.e. health
(blue), flammability (red), reactivity (yellow) and special information (white)) from the following site to a new page
immediately after the table of contents. Label the page as NFPA Diamond Symbol Rating Definitions.
http://cleanroom.byu.edu/NFPA
You can the skip the section on Other Symbols. Please double check and make sure that the definitions were copied
properly onto the carbon copy page.
In addition to the above web site, there is another excellent Web site (Fisher Scientific) for searching chemicals
on-line: https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/home.html. You can either search a specific chemical using the search
engine. Once you select the appropriate product, click on the SDS icon. NFPA rating is normally located in
Section 5 Fire-Fighting Measures of the SDS document page.
Another excellent Web site is http://www.sciencelab.com/. Click on Chemical MSDS listing to look up a
particular chemical.
You may use either Sigma-Aldrich, Fisher Scientific or Science Lab.com to look up MSDS information for the
class.
In addition, there is also a MSDS Web site that is maintained by the University of California. Go to
http://www.ucop.edu/risk-services/ Click on Loss Prevention and Control; select UCOP Safety Programs
and Resources; click on UCOP MSDS and select UC MSDS Management System
Note: You may be able to access UCOP only through campus computers. In other words, the UCOP MSDS may
not function properly even through UCLA proxy server. Google Chrome recommended if you plan to use UCOP
MSDS.
Also available on-line is the Merck Index (https://www.rsc.org/merck-index). However, access to both UC MSDS
and the Merck Index are restricted to computers connected via campus IP address. UCLA proxy server
(http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/proxy/) is required for off campus access.