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)

  1. ExpandManifest directory nodes to view the folder location, e.g. Area node at level 1
  2. Press the Folder name. Take note that the manifest list grid defaults to Cat Name view mode  
  3. Clickthe Hazards drop down arrow from the “select hazards” button
  4. 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).