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Today’s workplace uses thousands of chemicals, many of which are hazardous. The resources in this section will help guide you in the safe and legal identification, storage, transport, and use of these chemicals, and in making sure that your employees right to know how to be safe around such substances is provided, as required by law.
When was your last process safety compliance audit? If you are subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals standard (29 CFR 1910.119), you’re required to conduct a program compliance audit every 3 years. If you’re due—or if you can’t remember when you conducted your last […]
Both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are focusing on ammonia. Today we will reflect on lessons learned from recent enforcement actions by the agencies. Tomorrow we will review EPA’s new risk assessment for ammonia.
On September 19, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a joint guidance memorandum clarifying the applicability of their respective requirements for labeling hazardous chemicals.
Recently, a subscriber asked the following question: We are in a medical clinic setting and have a question about our eyewash stations. We currently have the bottles with saline flush system. We are wondering if we need to upgrade those to the faucet system. Where do we find these guidelines?
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has added 34 new drugs to its list of those considered hazardous for healthcare workers. Get important information here.
Recently, a subscriber asked the following question: Where can I find a list of all CAS numbers that correspond to the final ruling on crystalline silica for general industry? I notice new exposure levels are talked about but not linked to a chemical/CAS number.
EPA’s Chemical Accident Prevention Program, more commonly referred to as the Risk Management Program (RMP), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Process Safety Management (PSM) program will always go hand in hand, as both seek to prevent chemical process accidents and protect workers and the public from the sometimes devastating consequences of such […]
In a final rule, the EPA has extended the deadline for submitting information required by the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule (July 22, 2015, FR) from September 30, 2016, to October 31, 2016. The Agency states that this is a onetime extension, applying only to the 2016 submission requirement. The amended deadline results from a […]
One of the benefits of the recent reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was supposed to be the preemption of state programs, meaning that states would not be allowed to pile chemicals on top of the ones regulated on the federal level. Well, that happened—or did it? Today we’ll take a peek at […]
If you are an environment, health, and safety (EHS) manager in any number of industries, you likely face the ongoing task of dealing with solvents in your workplace. Today we will offer tips for protecting your workers from exposure to solvents.