Are you aware of health hazards while keeping the chemicals around and related incidents if not properly cared for? Well, you should be. As a precautionary measure, many organizations dealing with chemicals in manufacturing, retailing, and trading concerned, as well as schools and universities with chemical laboratories should and must comply with the local and international standards of precautionary measures to handle with care the chemicals they own.

On the contrary, if you do not, the international Agencies for Chemicals safety would intervene charging you with legal fines and punishments. So a simple guideline for the preparation of a chemical inventory list would help you in many ways, avoiding health hazards for people physically dealing with chemicals, securing employee safety, and more of that enabling you to comply with safety standards while avoiding legal repercussions.

Chemical Inventory List Format

So what is included in the chemical inventory list? You can start with having a clean white and blank paper or a spreadsheet if you are using a personal computer. Write your organization name in the center of the sheet boldly and legibly followed by the purpose (the chemical inventory list). Make some top margin headings on either side that mention the building name, department name, floor number, and Phone number to mention some important ones. Now, dram some six to seven columns neatly.

On top of every column, make headings in order of “Chemical name, Abbreviations your organization uses for naming chemicals, Quantity of chemicals stored, Chemical Abstract Number (CAS #), Compatibility Group, Chemical Nature, Health Hazards, and Prevention/ Cure”. Of course, before that, you should have a name written on a label attached to the type of chemicals in the jar or bottle and a title name given to each rack accommodating the chemical bottles, to track it with the paper or spreadsheet (the chemical inventory list).

Using Chemical Inventory List Templates

The major step towards making an effective chemical inventory list is the grouping of similar chemicals so that when you write them on the sheet, they shall be clustered together based on almost similar properties and corrosive actions and remedy/cure if they come into contact. Some other important pieces of information that can be included in the sheet are “Principal Investigator (the person responsible for handling a particular chemical), Chemical Description (the scientific name, nomenclature name, generic name), Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) number (as discussed earlier), Physical state of substance in collector (liquid, gas), Number of containers, Container size, Unit of measure, Name of the building, Lab, and Chemical Researcher, Storage Location, Container Type, Vendor Information, Vendor Number, Receipt Date, Expiration Date, Chemical Formula, Molecular Weight, Comments.

Doing so would help the organization in many ways especially saving lives and times of workers, researchers, handlers, and maintainers. Maintaining a chemical inventory list is worth it because organizations can achieve better productivity while achieving success in the targets for owning chemicals, hence better monetary and non-monetary rewards.

Free Sample Chemical Inventory List Templates

Here is a preview of This First Sample Chemical Inventory List Template in MS Word format.