Material Safety Specifications

Abstract

The fire and explosion hazards which may exist while handling combustible dusts are much less known than the ones which are present with gases and solvents. Therefore, quite often a misjudgement is made. In order to safely handle combustible dusts, it is important to know the dangerous properties [23]. The most reliable way to gain information with regard to the fire and explosion behavior of a dust is to analyze a sample and to describe the test result in the form of parameters known as ”safety characteristics”.