What’s on the Hazard Symbols poster
A 9-row table: Symbol · Means.
GHS pictograms in common laboratory use.
- Flame — Flammable
- Flame over circle — Oxidising
- Exploding bomb — Explosive
- Gas cylinder — Compressed gas
- Corrosion — Corrosive to skin, eyes or metal
- Skull and crossbones — Acute toxicity
- Exclamation mark — Irritant, harmful
- Health hazard — Carcinogen, mutagen, respiratory sensitiser
- Environment — Aquatic toxicity
The exclamation mark and the health hazard symbol are easily confused. The second indicates serious long-term effects.
Questions about the Hazard Symbols poster
- What’s on the Hazard Symbols poster?
- A 9-row table: Symbol · Means. GHS pictograms in common laboratory use. Flame — Flammable; Flame over circle — Oxidising; Exploding bomb — Explosive; Gas cylinder — Compressed gas; Corrosion — Corrosive to skin, eyes or metal; Skull and crossbones — Acute toxicity; Exclamation mark — Irritant, harmful; Health hazard — Carcinogen, mutagen, respiratory sensitiser; Environment — Aquatic toxicity. The exclamation mark and the health hazard symbol are easily confused. The second indicates serious long-term effects.
- Who is the Hazard Symbols poster for?
- Hazard Symbols belongs to the Chemistry section rather than to a school year, because physical science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning lab practice can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Hazard Symbols poster?
- The symbol tells you the hazard class. The safety data sheet tells you what to do. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Hazard Symbols belongs on the wall where that physical science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Hazard Symbols?
- Apparatus, Calorimetry and Graphs in Chemistry sit alongside Hazard Symbols in the Chemistry section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.ApparatusCalorimetryGraphs in Chemistry
- Is the Hazard Symbols poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Hazard Symbols downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chemistry section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Hazard Symbols poster print at?
- Hazard Symbols is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Hazard Symbols loses nothing.Printing guide
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