8. Other features

Job security

Adhesives, like the chemicals they contain, can, in certain limited cases, be harmful to health or hazardous to use, due to :

• or the flammability of certain components (solvents);

• or risks of allergic dermatitis (in the case of epoxy resins and amine hardeners);

• or the harmfulness of certain constituents (toluene, methanol, n-hexane, formaldehyde, for example).

Users and distributors are warned of these dangers by manufacturers, by the following means:

• TECHNICAL DATA SHEETS ;

• safety data sheets ;

• requirements indicated on packaging (hazard labelling).

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