To all the Trump supporters complaining about vaccine mandates taking away your freedom

[jmowreader]

These employer vaccine mandates are coming through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Let me tell you a little story.

In 1998 I was working in a general commercial printing plant in North Carolina. Large businesses with heavy equipment like we had are subject to random inspections by OSHA. One day they came in and they seemed very interested in my MSDS book.

"It's not complete."

"Isn't it? We have MSDS in here for chemicals we don't even use. I have 29 different MSDS for the exact same brand and formulation of ink because we've got to have one for each color in stock. We have nine different MSDS for isopropyl alcohol because our supplier changes the oil company they get it from on a regular basis. What MSDS could we possibly be missing?"

"You don't have one for water."

No kidding. There is an MSDS for water. We got fined $500 for not having it. Fortunately, the inspector also had one with her so we put it right in.

The moral of this story is, if I can pay the government $500 for not having an MSDS for water - the last chemical in the world you'd ever expect would need one - you can get a couple of shots to help end this pandemic.

[UpInArms]

1. I didn't know water had a manufacturer

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How does that work?

[haele]

2. Distilled water has manufacturers.

And tap water comes from a processing plant. Water is also a fall or trip hazard, and other chemicals can react badly to it. It can cause hazardous molds or corrosion to develop if left too long on a variety of organic or metallic surfaces
The MSDS for water contains warnings for what not to use it for or store it near. Also indicates that it needs to be removed from surfaces as soon as it is spilled or found to leak or seep on that surface, specifically due to slip, mold and corrosion properties.

MSDS sheets are not only for toxic properties.

I was in charge with hazmat handling on shipyards back in the day - we also had to keep MSDS sheets and usage notices for O2 and our first aid kit.

Haele

[UpInArms]

3. Thank you for that very informative post

It seems that I learn something every day

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. What's MSDS?

Not all of us have heard of that.