Posted By GSP Contact the Manufacturer? Most databases that are of any use you will need to sign up and PAY for....and its stuff you can get free from the manufacturer anyway.

Posted By Maureen Milne Fisher Scientific have a web site and provide free MSDS's for all their chemicals. www.fisher.co.uk

Posted By Descarte I have found http://biade.itrust.de/b...=templates&fn=main-h.htm Useful in the past for very detailed safety info on specific chemicals and obscure ones in the past. GESTIS is the Information system on hazardous substances of the Berufsgenossenschaften (German institutions for statutory accident insurance and prevention) Is in english howeevr some words may require translation

Posted By Chris Packham Caution!!! The MSDS is not a COSHH safety data sheet, but a CHIP safety data sheet. As such it is often restricted to the chemicals in the Approved Supply List. The ACoP for COSHH states categorically that this may not be sufficient for COSHH! CHIP is for packaging and labelling for supply, not for use. There is an overriding duty on the supplier under Section 6-1 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 to provide adequate information to enable the safe use of the product for the purpose for which it was supplied. This is a very different requirement. In my experience many suppliers are not aware of this. COSHH Essentials restricts itself to chemicals with risk phrases. The most common cause of occupational skin disease is from wet work, i.e. exposure to water. Since when did water have a risk phrase or SDS? There was a Webinar (Internet seminar) last week run by the BOHS on this topic ("What the safety data sheet does not tell you and you need to know!"). Chris