M312 REAGENT NFPA Material Label

roll label, 3 inch by 1.5 inch, White label with NFPA diamond, self-adhesive, 500 labels/roll, permanent adhesive

Handwriting or compatible with the Zebra ZD421 Thermal Transfer Printer

These chemical NFPA labels allow employees to identify containers of reagents with their chemical name, preparation date, expiration date, and storage requirements for easy identification, for investigation of a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), to warn of known hazards of a material, and for chemical inventory management.

Chemical Inventory Management

These labels allow employees to list the preparation and expiration dates to ensure that reagents are used before expiring and properly disposed of after expiration. This ensures that tests use only viable reagents. In addition, these labels communicate the proper storage temperature of a reagent so that it does not spoil. Easily communicate if a reagent can be stored at room temperature or must be refrigerated with a check box. 

Workplace Safety

Maintain a safe workplace with these labels designed to communicate important hazard information such as reagent name, preparation date, expiration date, storage temperature, and NFPA hazard level. Reagents used in laboratories pose different hazards and it is important to communicate those hazards to maintain compliance with labor regulations, promote employee safety, and aid emergency response teams in identifing chemicals during an emergency.

NFPA Diamonds

THe National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Diamond, also known as a fire diamond, is an image of a diamond with a color-coded system to identify the severity of specific hazards of a material. Each of the four sections of the color-coded diamond represent a distinct type of hazard and a number of 0-4 denotes the severity of each hazard.

The blue section of the diamond represents health hazard, with a score of 0 representing a "normal material" and a 4 representing "deadly." The red section represents fire hazard or flammability, with a 0 representing "Will Not Burn" and a 4 representing a highly flammable material, "Will vaporize and readily burn at normal temperatures." The yellow section represents an instability hazard or a material's explodability. A 0 represents a "Stable" material while a 4 represents a material that "may explode at normal temperatures and pressures." Finally, the white section represents Special Hazards, with specific icons that represent additional hazards known to a material.