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Table 3.1 Some of the physical hazards, health hazards, and environmental hazards and their
respective pictograms according to GHS (UN, 2019)
Physical hazards
Explosive
• Explosives
• Self-reactives
• Organic peroxides
Flammable
• Flammables
• Pyrophorics
• Self-heating
• Emits flammable gas
• Self-reactives
• Organic peroxides
• Desensitized explosives
Oxidizing
• Oxidizers
Compressed gas
• Gases under pressure
Physical and health hazards
Corrosion
• Corrosive to metals
• Skin corrosion/irritation
• Eye damage
Health hazards
Toxic
• Acute toxicity (fatal or toxic)
Health hazard
• Carcinogenicity
• Mutagenicity
• Respiratory sensitization
• Reproductive toxicity
• Aspiration hazard
• Specific target organ toxicity
(continued)