What is a Carcinogen?
A Carcinogen is a material that can pause cancer due to long term exposure. If a carcinogenic material appears in wide range of regulatory lists globally, that material will be filtered out if it is found in a any areas/sections/locations in the Folders or Manifest Module.
GHS Classification
HAZARD CLASS | CARCINOGENICITY | ||
1A, 1B
| DANGER | H350 May cause cancer <...> (state route of exposure if it is conclusively proven that no other routes of exposure cause the hazard) |
Health Hazard |
2
| WARNING | H351 Suspected of causing cancer <...> |
Manifest Reports - Hazards Filter
Safety and compliance require that persons using chemicals at the workplace must obtain a hazardous chemicals register, identify all those materials that may cause cancer (carcinogens), hazardous substances to human health, environmental hazardous substance, embryotoxins, reprotoxins, physical hazardous substances, dangerous goods and many more. The program allows users to filter out those hazardous chemicals that fall under that category by using the Hazards Filter functionality.
The following steps illustrate the sequence with screen capture on ‘how to derive a specific hazard report for carcinogenic products from a manifest folder list. In order to achieve this activity, two tasks must be carried out;
Task | Action | Reason | Expectation |
Manifest Hazards Filter for Carcinogens
| Users can filter a list by hazard-specific carcinogens. | Filter a manifest list of chemicals in any folder by a specific hazard type to Print , Save or Email the report for the identification of carcinogenic chemicals in a location. | Generally, users with access to Manifest can use the hazards filter |
Print, Save or Email Report
| Users can Print , Save or Email filtered out carcinogens list as a report document | Print carcinogenic chemicals list report Save carcinogenic chemicals list report Email carcinogenic chemicals list | Generally, users with access to Manifest can generate these reports. |
In general, the filtering can be achieved at any folder level.
Designated icon | Folder Type | Filter at Folder Node Level | Folder Tree Node (s) |
Area | User can filter contents in the Area folder node under the manifest directory. | Level 1 | |
Section
| User can filter contents in the Section folder node under the parent Area. | Level 2 | |
Location
| User can filter contents in the Location folder node under the Section level. | Level 3 |
In this worked example, the hazards-specific carcinogens filtering will be carried out from the Area folder node under the Manifest directory.
Steps
In the Home module button (if it’s not already the default module)
- ExpandManifest directory nodes to view the folder location, e.g. Area node at level 1
- Press the Folder name. Take note that the manifest list grid defaults to Cat Name view mode
- Clickthe Hazards drop down arrow from the “select hazards” button
- Select the Hazards-Specific Carcinogens option from the hazard’s filter menu. Take note that the total number of chemical products in the list is 18.
5. Note that this list is filtered to show only those products that classified as carcinogenic chemicals. The hazard column displays the colour coded icon(s) as per hazard rating and the hazard statement column shows the hazard classification codes (H Codes) for each line item. The filtered list show only 1 carcinogen identified.
6. Choose any of the Print , save or email buttons. Select the Print button
to generate the hazards-all report.
7. The “List” radio button is the default selection from the print menu
8. Press the Submit button to generate the report document in format
9. Pressthe Print, save buttons from the acrobat reader to print or download report.
Note that in this generated pdfreport document, the hazard column has converted the hazard colour coded icon into the corresponding Chemwatch hazard rating number for the line item. Close the print window.
10. Clickthe Hazards drop down arrowfrom the “select hazards” button and select the “No Hazards Filter” option to go back to the products list (this action closes the filter function).