GHS Pictogram Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which pairing correctly distinguishes the pictograms used for skin sensitization and respiratory sensitization?
Both are represented by the exclamation mark.
Skin sensitization uses the exclamation mark; respiratory sensitization uses the health-hazard silhouette.
Both are represented by the health-hazard silhouette.
Skin sensitization uses corrosion; respiratory sensitization uses the skull and crossbones.
2. A product may cause irreversible eye damage rather than temporary eye irritation. Which pictogram is the stronger match?
Corrosion
Exclamation mark
Health hazard
Skull and crossbones
3. Which GHS pictogram is depicted as a person’s silhouette with a starburst shape in the chest?
Skull and crossbones
Exclamation mark
Corrosion
Health hazard
4. A cleaner can cause irreversible skin burns and serious eye damage, and it may corrode metal. Which pictogram most directly communicates these hazards?
Corrosion
Health hazard
Exclamation mark
Environment
5. A red diamond contains the black outline of a horizontal cylinder. Which hazard class does it represent?
Explosives
Corrosive substances
Flammable substances
Gases under pressure
6. Which GHS pictogram contains a flame above a circle?
Flame
Exploding bomb
Oxidizer
Gas cylinder
7. During a stock check, you see the gas-cylinder pictogram on a container. What should you infer from that pictogram itself?
The contents are corrosive to metals.
The container holds a gas under pressure.
The contents can intensify a fire as an oxidizer.
The contents are hazardous to aquatic life.
8. A solvent’s vapour can ignite readily when it reaches a spark. Which pictogram most directly indicates this property?
Flame
Health hazard
Flame over circle
Exploding bomb
9. An unstable substance presents an explosive hazard and may detonate under specified conditions. Which pictogram most directly communicates that danger?
Flame over circle
Gas cylinder
Exploding bomb
Flame
10. Which hazard is represented by the pictogram showing a dead tree and a fish?
Serious long-term health effects
Hazardous effects on the aquatic environment
Corrosion of metals
Acute toxicity
11. A solid releases oxygen and can intensify a fire even though it is not itself the fuel. Which pictogram best fits this hazard?
Flame over circle
Flame
Exploding bomb
Gas cylinder
12. A small amount of a chemical may cause fatal acute poisoning if inhaled. Which pictogram most directly warns of this hazard?
Health hazard
Exclamation mark
Skull and crossbones
Environment
13. Which hazard is NOT represented by the GHS flame pictogram?
Self-heating substances
Pyrophoric liquids
Gases under pressure
Substances that emit flammable gas
14. Repeated exposure to a workplace chemical may cause respiratory sensitization, potentially triggering allergy-like breathing reactions. Which pictogram applies?
Exclamation mark
Corrosion
Skull and crossbones
Health hazard
15. How does the skull and crossbones differ from the exclamation mark when both concern acute toxicity?
The skull and crossbones is limited to skin irritation.
The skull and crossbones indicates the more severe fatal or toxic acute-toxicity categories.
The skull and crossbones indicates every possible long-term health effect.
The skull and crossbones means the substance is stored under pressure.
16. A substance is classified as harmful if swallowed, but not in the more severe fatal or toxic acute-toxicity categories. Which pictogram is associated with this classification?
Health hazard
Skull and crossbones
Corrosion
Exclamation mark