How to Rewrite SDS Section 8 Exposure Controls Without Inventing PELs
Section 8 rewrites fail when they invent a 50 ppm PEL and an N95 the SDS never named. This is not a toolbox talk and not a certificate. Quote the SDS. Label site rules as site rules.
The matching generator is the SDS Section 8 Exposure-Control Rewrite (Not Certification, No Invented PELs) prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).
Banner that this is not certification
Rewrite SDS Section 8 exposure controls from pasted SDS text. Not certification. No invented PELs, PPE, or engineering controls. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Product name and SDS date/version: [SDS]
Pasted Section 8 text (and related Section 7/9 if provided): [Text]
Audience and language level: [Audience]
Site conditions I may mention: [Site or NONE]
PPE the SDS names: [PPE]
Limits (PEL, TLV, REL) only as pasted: [Limits]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What this is not (certification, medical advice): [Not]
Max words: [Budget or 400]
Whether I may add site rules not in the SDS: [SiteRules or NONE]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Table only the limits that appear in the paste
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Banner: not certification, not medical advice, not a toolbox talk. Quote Not.
- Honesty ledger: SDS version, every PEL/TLV/REL, every PPE item, every engineering control in Text. Forbidden: limits not pasted, respirators not named.
- Plain-language Section 8: engineering controls, admin controls, PPE, only from Text. If a control is missing, write not specified in this SDS.
- Limits table: quote Limits with units and the agency named in the paste. If Limits is blank, write no occupational limit in this paste.
- Site: only Site. If NONE, do not invent a booth or HVAC spec.
- SiteRules: if NONE, do not add a plant rule. If present, label them as site rules not SDS text.
- Gaps: five controls workers still cannot verify from this SDS.
- Compliance pass: quote Banned words, invented PEL, invented NIOSH cert. Cut them. Print word count vs Budget.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
PPE and ventilation from the SDS, not from habit
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- SDS Section 8 rewrite. Not an OSHA toolbox talk and not certification.
- Never invent a PEL, TLV, REL, or PPE item.
- Not medical advice. Do not diagnose.
- Stay under Budget words.
- No emojis.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Leave missing ACH and glove thickness as gaps
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (sds section 8 rewrite, exposure control no invented pel, not hazmat certification) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.