This Draft Standard for Trial Use contains the format and establishes the data contents of the Material Safety Data Sheet Transaction Set (848) for use within an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) environment. The transaction set can be used to communicate chemical characteristics, hazards, and precautions for the safe handling and use of a material. The transaction set is intended to convey the information required for a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) as defined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1200 in the United States, and Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHIMS) in Canada, and various state, province, and local requirements under right-to-know legislation.
The MSDS provides the receiver with detailed information concerning material identity, emergency response, chemical and physical characteristics, toxicology, and industrial hygiene procedures.
State and federal law dictate who is obligated to provide the MSDS and to whom it should be issued. In addition, third-party providers or others with no statutory obligation may voluntarily provide an MSDS to anyone.
This transaction set allows for transmission of MSDS data in a structured, unstructured, or semi-structured form.
CAUTION: With this transaction set, text format is critical due to the MSDS's primary role as a vehicle for hazards communication. The risk if this information is not transmitted clearly and accurately could be harmful to human life, harmful to the environment, could cause mishandling of product, could result in regulatory non-compliance, and could result in liability.
Trading partners need to agree on how to interpret, store, and display/print MSDS text, especially text contained in the MSG and SD1 segments. For example, a sender may wish to format text so that one print line is mapped to one MSG segment. Segment terminator and data element delimiter characters shall not appear in any MSDS data.
WARNING: Alteration of the original document will occur if the EDI translator or application software converts characters to uppercase. This may adversely affect the appearance, effectiveness, clarity, readability, and communicability of the printed MSDS document.
To indicate the start of a transaction set and to assign a control number
Beginning of the Material Safety Data Sheet Transaction Set, to identify the distinct type of report and to transmit key identifying numbers and dates relating to that report
To transmit information in a free-form format, if necessary, for comment or special instruction
To specify identifying numbers.
To specify pertinent dates and times
To identify a party by type of organization, name and code
To specify additional names or those longer than 35 characters in length
To specify the location of the named party
To specify the geographic place of the named party
To specify identifying numbers.
To identify a person or office to whom administrative communications should be directed
To specify basic item identification data.
To describe a product or process in coded or free-form format
To identify the report section
To specify physical measurements or counts, including dimensions, tolerances, variances, and weights
(See Figures Appendix for example of use of C001.)
To provide a free form format that would allow the transmission of text information.
To provide safety data information to recipients of the transaction, including identification of the hazard that the material being described represents, and the organization or party that declared this material to be a hazard or which established exposure limits or other guidelines for that material
To specify physical measurements or counts, including dimensions, tolerances, variances, and weights
(See Figures Appendix for example of use of C001.)
To describe marking, packaging, loading and unloading requirements.
To specify transportation special handling requirements or hazardous materials information or both
To provide a free form format that would allow the transmission of text information.
To specify the general class or specific characteristic upon which test results are being reported or are to be taken
To specify physical measurements or counts, including dimensions, tolerances, variances, and weights
(See Figures Appendix for example of use of C001.)
To reference a line number in a transaction set.
To specify the general class or specific characteristic upon which test results are being reported or are to be taken
To specify physical measurements or counts, including dimensions, tolerances, variances, and weights
(See Figures Appendix for example of use of C001.)
To provide summary statistics related to a specific collection of test result values.
To describe the nature of the test performed.
To provide a free form format that would allow the transmission of text information.
To provide safety data information to recipients of the transaction, including identification of the hazard that the material being described represents, and the organization or party that declared this material to be a hazard or which established exposure limits or other guidelines for that material
To specify physical measurements or counts, including dimensions, tolerances, variances, and weights
(See Figures Appendix for example of use of C001.)
To describe marking, packaging, loading and unloading requirements.
To specify transportation special handling requirements or hazardous materials information or both
To provide a free form format that would allow the transmission of text information.
To specify the general class or specific characteristic upon which test results are being reported or are to be taken
To specify physical measurements or counts, including dimensions, tolerances, variances, and weights
(See Figures Appendix for example of use of C001.)
To transmit a hash total for a specific element in the transaction set
To indicate the end of the transaction set and provide the count of the transmitted segments (including the beginning (ST) and ending (SE) segments).
