® Safety Showers & Eyewash products COMPATIBILITY GUIDE


Our range of safety showers and eyewash basins (excluding tanks showers, stainless steel versions and portable tanks) are coated with high visibility yellow, anti-corrosive plastic to provide protection against a wide range of substances. The following table details the plastic coating’s resistance to a great many substances but is not an exhaustive list.


Plastic Coating Resistance


Condition after 18 months contact G = Good L = Limited INORGANIC BASES


AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE AMMONIA


LIME-WASH


POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE SODIUM HYDROXIDE SODIUM HYDROXIDE SODIUM HYDROXIDE


INORGANIC ACIDS CHROMIC ACID


HYDROCHLORIC ACID PHOSPHORIC ACID SULPHURIC ACID


INORGANIC SALTS ALUM


ALUMINUM SULPHATE AMMONIUM NITRATE AMMONIUM SULPHATE BARIUM CHLORIDE CALCIUM ARSENATE CALCIUM CHLORIDE CALCIUM SULPHATE COPPER SULPHATE


DIAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE


POTASSIUM FERROCYANIDE POTASSIUM NITRATE POTASSIUM SULPHATE SODIUM CARBONATE SODIUM CHLORIDE SODIUM SILICATE SODIUM SULPHIDE


TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE


OTHER INORGANIC PRODUCTS AGRICULTURAL SPRAYS BLEACH SOLUTION CHLORINE FLOURINE HYDROGEN


HYDROGEN PEROXIDE MERCURY OXYGEN OZONE


POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE SEA WATER SODA WATER SULPHUR WATER


32 20 vol


Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions 50%


Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Saturated


Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions Concentrated solutions


50% 5%


10% 50%


10% 1%


50% 1%


G G G G


P G G G


G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G G


5%


G L P P G G G G L P G G G G


P = Poor


CONCENTRATION Concentrated Liquid or gas


20°C G G


40°C G G G L G L L


P L L L


G G G G G G G G G G G G L G G G G L G


G P P P G L G G P P G G G G


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