The pictograms OSHA has adopted improve worker safety and health, conform to the GHS and are used worldwide. While the GHS uses a total of nine pictograms, OSHA will only enforce the use of eight.

DANGER A 100-mL wide-mouth bottle of HPLC-grade acetone from Sigma-Aldrich. Chemical labels will include standard items, such as pictograms representing hazards. Credit: Sigma-Aldrich ...

Researching modern pictograms on a worldwide basis, the team produced 34 distinct pictograms. By 1979, 16 more symbols were added to the system, which brought the total to 50, where it remains today.

Just over half of the respondents, 55 per cent, could identify the serious health hazard pictogram and only 12 per cent knew what the symbol warning that a product is a skin irritant meant.

CS Odessa (www.conceptdraw.com) has released a new transport hazardous warning solution for ConceptDraw Pro 11, which is now available in ConceptDraw Solution Park. The Transport Hazard Pictograms, as ...