Hydrogen Fluoride and Hydrofluoric Acid references and policies
HF is life/death serious, even in small quantities when not extremely concentrated. Pay very close attention, and always HAVE ALL APPROPRIATE FIRST AID SUPPLIES (fresh) at hand.
1 - 8 are required reading for approval of HF use, and are covered on the test. The last one, #9, provides technical information for which few will have any need or use, but you must know of its existence and where it can be found.
- First Aid & Treatment -- Honeywell (PDF)
- Purdue Requirements for users and rooms (Word)
- MSDS 49% (PDF)
- MSDS anhydrous (PDF)
- Some HF facts (PowerPoint)
- Berkeley fact sheet (PDF)
- Lab HF fatality
- By what mechanism....cause death?
- Properties -- Honeywell (PDF)