Managing Nickel and Nickel-containing Products and Processes: An Educational Resource
Last updated May 2004
Nickel is a prominent industrial and engineering material. It is available in different physical forms with different physical properties that, in turn, attract different regulatory requirements for their production, handling, storage and transportation.
While the primary nickel industry is most familiar with such requirements and the best practices involved, other industrial stakeholders will at various times be receiving, handling, storing or shipping nickel products.
The following pages will offer to those stakeholders information originally prepared for marketing personnel of the primary nickel industry but now being adopted for downstream users of nickel. This is part of the broader product stewardship program of the Nickel Institute.
Much of the information is not specific to nickel but all of it is relevant to best industrial practices, including occupational health and safety, product stewardship, duty of care, recycling, and environmental management systems.
A word of caution:
- Please note that each section is dated. That means the information provided was, to the best of our knowledge, accurate at that time.
- Even if the material appears to carry a current date, it does not mean it is accurate: there is no substitute for consultation with local authorities or specialists when dealing with matters of regulatory compliance or environmental or human health.
- The information provided is generic in nature and provided for your general information. No guarantee is offered or implied that the information is accurate or authoritative.
As time and resources permit, additional elements will be added and existing elements updated.
If you see something you know to be inaccurate, please let us know.
PART ONE: Product Movement: How nickel and nickel products should
be packaged, handled, stored, labeled, etc.
PART TWO: Product Use: "The Safe Use of Nickel in the
Workplace" describes hazards associated with nickel and nickel products and how they can be managed.
PART THREE: Product Stewardship: Considerations for
product stewardship; elements and management of a product stewardship program.
PART FOUR: Product Stewardship Tools:
Management tools for implementing product stewardship.
