Agreeed.
It would soon relegate warnings to 'trite and annoying' if every time somebody used naptha, it came with the warning 'don't pour over self and play with matches' or everytime the carbonate came out 'don't get in your eyes, it may irritate', MSDS panic is a plague if you ask me. And dangerous. Overdoing the warnings is as dangerous as not heeding them, almost.
Yes, some things, like HF, diazomethane or willy pete need the fact acknowledgeing, and newer members or inexperienced members warning, anecdotes maybe also, as in the lab accident thread, can help, for what NOT to do. But to overstate everything, all the time, leads to people potentially getting desensitized to the warnings.
A climate of fear is not good, in the lab, nor is having a superficial layer of tungsten on your bollocks.
But having HF eat your bones from the inside out and drop you dead of a heart attack is worse still (always have a minimum of two packs of calcium gluconate gel with you working with HF of any concentration, even weak 3% stuff. One in the pocket. One in the home, and the optional but very reccomended one, one in the workplace, optional being, if you have a workplace, if you do, then it isn't optional, one on you for instant use, one handy where you are working, and one at home, because dilute hydrofluoric acid can cause an initially relatively painless burn, until it starts leaching Ca++ out of your bones and drops you dead of a heart attack and/or mangles your kidneys. )
MSDS panic, is dangerous though, very dangerous, to noobs especially, those young bees and wasps that just saw that shiny new pair of wings hidden in the back of the shop, glinting away, and the grin on the shopkeeper's face as he winks. Nobody told that young bee about the crusty old bottle of THF in front of them, and what that might mean.....and what that means, is no arms and legs to wear the wings with.
To illustrate just how bad its got, Toady bought two packs of IV saline amps, as he had used his very last one, he doesn't have need of them often, but one in a while, yes they are useful, and the 'water for injections BP' came with a leaflet with warnings: 'you should NOT be given water for injections BP if you are sensitive or allergic to water for injections BP' 'please tell the doctor or nurse if you are taking or have recently taken any other medicines including medicines obtained without a prescription.
A guidance section stating to tell your doctor first before recieving this injection, if pregnant/breast feeding, driving and using heavy machinery, who to tell if you think the doctor/nurse giving the injection gave you too much, and a whole bunch of liscencing and marketing information.
This is for ampoules of sterile water, nothing more, nothing less. The deadly dihydrogen monoxide strikes again!
People need to study what's available freely on the internet instead of posting redundant threads on a daily basis