Instructions to handle surgical spirit safely

For prevention of new coronavirus infectious disease, opportunities to use surgical spirit increase. When surgical spirit is fixed for dangerous materials in the Fire Services Act as flammable liquid and gets a wrong how to handle, it is very dangerous.

Last update date March 31, 2020

We follow the next instructions, and let's use surgical spirit safely.

Surgical spirit is very flammable liquid. Please never use near fire.
When we repack surgical spirit in container in the room, let's ventilate well
When we repack surgical spirit in container, we leak and overflow, and let's be careful not to be scattered enough.
We put container which surgical spirit entered, and place keeping will avoid place and high temperature that direct rays of the sun hits and place where it is
You let containers which surgical spirit entered drop, and please do not give shock."
It will prevent it from atomizing in space that we sealed up. The risk to catch fire from increases when it becomes in the letter of fog. Let's be careful about fire in particular.
Let's list instructions such as being surgical spirit or fire strict prohibition in container which repacked surgical spirit.

To handle surgical spirit safely [leaflet]; (PDF: 398KB)

Link to notice of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Fire and Disaster Management Agency procession

https://www.fdma.go.jp/laws/tutatsu/items/200318_kiho_77a.pdf (the outside site)

Notice about the handling of surgical spirit of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Fire and Disaster Management Agency procession

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