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Categorizing hazards

Categorizing hazards

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Categorizing hazards

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- In the last video, you learned about the three basic hazard classifications, physical, health, and environmental. And I mentioned that each of these three classifications is further broken down into hazard categories. There are a total of nine categories, five in the physical classification, three in the health classification, and then a single category for environmental hazards. Each of these categories is represented by a pictogram. Now, these pictograms are just standardized illustrations that are meant to communicate the hazard even if you can't read any of the text or labeling information. They're a quick visual indicator of the hazard category for a product or chemical so you should get to know them and recognize what it is that they're telling you. Physical hazards are broken down into the following categories represented by five different pictograms. The first category is explosives, and this is represented by…

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