Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Key to Abbreviations
% - Percent
°C – Degrees Celsius
°F – Degrees Farenhuit
hr – Hour
kg - Kilogram
L - Litre
Ppm - parts per million
LC50 – Airborne concentration required to produce 50% mortality in animal test subjects.
LD50 – Dose (provided either orally, or dermally) required to produce 50% mortality in animal
test subjects.
mg/m3 – milligrams of contaminant per cubic metre of air
mmHg – Millimetres of mercury
N.Ap. – Not applicable
N.Av. Not available
ACGIH – American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
CALIFORNIA EPA PROPOSITION 65 – List of Carcinogens and Reproductive Toxins
recognized in California Environmental Protection Agency
CAS No. – Chemical Abstract Society Number
CERCLA – US Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
PEL – Permissible Exposure Level
RCRA – US Resource and Conservation Recovery Act
REL – Recommended Exposure Limit
SARA TITLE III – US Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
TLV – Threshold Limit Value
TSCA – US Toxic Substances Control Act
TWA – Time Weighted Average
UN/NA – United Nations / North American Product Identification Number
WHMIS – Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
AIHA = American Industrial Hygiene Association
HSDB® = Hazardous Substances Data Bank
NTP = National Toxicology Program
OSHA = US Occupational Safety and Health Administration
RTECS® = Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances
GHS - Global Harmonized System
References
Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act, Occupational Health and Safety Code, Schedule 1
Chemical Substances. 2009
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/index.asp
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. 2015. Threshold Limit Values for
Chemical Substances and Physical Agents and Biological Exposure Indices.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) - Multiple databases:
Chempendium / Cheminfo / Cesars / HSDB / RTECS / TDG / DSl-NDSL / NIOSH Pocket
Guide database. Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://ccinfoweb2.ccohs.ca/cheminfo/records/20E.html
ESIS (European Chemical Substances Information System) / European Chemicals Agency
(ECHA). Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://echa.europa.
eu/information-on-chemicals;jsessionid=27D3D23CAC10DA9D6BA7DF26DA012804.live1
Information of products / ingredient information from West Fraser Quesnel Plywood, Williams
Lake Plywood, West Fraser LVL, and Alberta Plywood.
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://monographs.iarc.fr/
International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS)-Inchem. Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://www.inchem.org/
National Toxicology Program (NTP). Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/pubhealth/roc/roc13/index.html
United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
(GHS) Third Revised Edition. 2009.
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS). Viewed
May 2015. Available at: http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?IRIS
US EPA Envirofacts. Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/emci/emci_query.html
WorkSafeBC. Part 5 Regulations. Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://www2.worksafebc.com/Publications/OHSRegulation/Part5.asp
PAN Pesticides Database - Chemicals, Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://www.pesticideinfo.org.
Carex Canada. Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://www.carexcanada.ca/en/wood_dust/?print
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Viewed May 2015. Available at:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pel88/wooddust.html
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists. Wood Dusts. 2005.
SECTION 16. OTHER INFORMATION
NFPA Rating
SDS Prepared By
Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure
Phone No.
604-294-3811
Date of Preparation
June 10, 2015
Health - 2 Flammability - 2 Instability - 0
Based on
softwood, allergenic and non-allergenic species
SDS No.:
Date of Preparation:
005 Page
of
1110
June 10, 2015
Product Identifier: Westpine MDF