Glossary Term: Regulatory Management

American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), US, is an organization that established exposure limits for substances.

Action phrases (verbs) replace nouns that describe a type or category of action, and action vector phrases replace the nouns that describe the effects of the actions.

European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways.

The ADR comprises regulations for road transport with regard to packaging, load securing, classification, and labeling of dangerous goods.

American National Standards Institute.

The temperature that is required to spontaneously ignite a substance.

The temperature or a range of temperatures at which a liquid evaporates.

Exposure to this substance can lead to cancer.

The Chemical Abstracts Service provides information about chemical compounds.

A unique number assigned by Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society, and used to retrieve information about a material.