You need DD Form 2522, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: Hazardous Chemical Warning Label (4 X 6). Its official title is DD Form 2522, Hazardous Chemical Warning Label (4 x 6), October 2000.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Now fill it in. Work from the top of the page downward, and do not jump ahead — the identifying block comes first, the substance of your entry second, the certification last. Later boxes often depend on what you put at the top.
Check the edition before you type a word. The date appears on the face of the form; it should read not stated. When it does not, discard the file and take a fresh copy from this page. Department-level revisions replace the blank across all services simultaneously, which means an old printout can be out of step everywhere.
For questions about a specific entry, check the form's own instructions, and if that does not settle it, open not stated. The directive controls where they differ.
Download the form
First, look at what you can download. The set covers PDF, the form runs 1 pages, and you will complete roughly 19 fields.
Check your software before choosing xfdl. That format belongs to IBM Lotus Forms, long used for Defense form distribution, and it needs the matching viewer. Get the viewer installed, then come back for the file.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- 1. Chemical/common name.
- 2. Hazard code.
- 3. NSN or LSN.
- 4. Part number.
- 5. Item name.
- 6. Hazards. a. Health. Press space bar to mark X in first box if acute (immediate): none, second box if slight, third box if moderate, fourth box if severe, or fifth box if chronic (delayed).
- b. Contact: acute (immediate). X first box if none, second box if slight, third box if moderate, or fourth box if severe.
- c. Fire: acute (immediate). X first box if none, second box if slight, third box if moderate, or fourth box if severe.
- d. Reactivity: acute (immediate). X first box if none, second box if slight, third box if moderate, or fourth box if severe.
- 7. Specific hazards and precautions, including target organ effects. See M S D S for further information
- 8. Protect: X if eyes.
- X if skin.
- X if respiratory.
- 9. Contact. a. Company name.
- b. Address, include street number, street, P O box, city, state, and zip code.
- c. Emergency telephone number, include area code.
- 10. Procurement year for hazardous chemical.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2522?
- DD Form 2522, Hazardous Chemical Warning Label (4 x 6), October 2000
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?