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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.
Yesterday we looked at the possible routes of exposure and toxic effects of pesticides on workers in nonfarm occupations who do not apply pesticides. These workers—as well as customers and clients—can be exposed to toxic doses of pesticide residues after pesticides are applied in the workplace. One way to prevent those types of exposures is […]
Did you know that OSHA’s new Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) standard adds to your Hazard Communication training requirements? It requires your training to be a bit lengthier than usual by specifying topics to be covered in training for employees who are exposed to RCS.
Nobody wants to eat at a restaurant with a cockroach problem, sleep at a hotel with a bedbug problem, or work in a building with a termite problem. But in some cases, our solution to the presence of these pests can be as bad as the pests themselves: When we fill our work spaces with […]
Tyson Foods was recently fined over $263,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for, in part, endangering workers by exposing them to peracetic acid without providing personal protective equipment (PPE). But, environmental, health and safety (EHS) managers at meat and poultry processing facilities are not the only ones who should worry about peracetic […]
Are you finally getting around to renovating that office building? Planning to repurpose that quality control lab built in the 1950s? Updating your electrical wiring and incidentally updating other aspects of the building’s interior? If you’re going to start ripping up and replacing things, “taking it down to the studs,” or otherwise remodeling and renovating […]
Tyson Foods was recently fined over $263,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for, in part, endangering workers by exposing them to peracetic acid without providing personal protective equipment (PPE). But, environmental, health and safety (EHS) managers at meat and poultry processing facilities are not the only ones who should worry about peracetic […]
In its spring 2016 regulatory agenda, the EPA set a December 2016 completion date for its final revisions of regulations implementing Clean Air Act (CAA) Section 112(r), the Risk Management Program (RMP). Since issuing the first RMP rule in 1996, the Agency has revised the requirements at least six times. But the most recent proposed […]
There is growing interest in which chemicals the EPA will select for its initial risk evaluations under the reformed Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) signed by President Obama June 22, 2016. Under the law, one of the Agency’s first tasks is to designate 10 chemicals for evaluation no more than 180 days after enactment. The […]
Formaldehyde is back in the news now that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a new rule to control formaldehyde emissions from certain products. However, if your facility uses formaldehyde, as an environment, health, and safety (EHS) manager you have been required for a long time to safeguard your workers from formaldehyde exposure […]
The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act has brought about a long overdue reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The Act was passed to address many of TSCA’s shortcomings and to allow the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more authority to evaluate and mitigate the risks associated with chemicals […]