Responding to Chemical Spills: First Critical Actions
Taking immediate action after a chemical spill has been identified can prevent worker injuries and environmental damage.
Category: Chemicals
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.
Risk Management Plan FAQs
Facts about OSHA’s Lab Standard and Chemical Hygiene Plans
Yesterday, we describe eight elements that must be included in chemical hygiene plans. Today, we review more facts about the plans required under OSHA’s lab standard. OSHA’s Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories Standard (29 CFR 1910.1450) applies to all laboratories that use hazardous chemicals on a laboratory scale. A laboratory is defined as […]
8 Elements of a Chemical Hygiene Plan
If you’re required to have a chemical hygiene, make sure it contains these elements. Since 1990, OSHA has required facilities engaged in the use of chemicals in a laboratory to develop and implement a written chemical hygiene plan (CHP). OSHA requires these facilities to set forth procedures, equipment, PPE, work practices, training, and policies to […]
Web-Site Requirements for Web-Distributed Pesticide Labeling
Web-Distributed Pesticide Labeling Requirements
TRI Data in Action—Research for the Greater Good
HAZWOPER Health and Safety Plans: 3 Basic Requirements
These three basics will help ensure that your HAZWOPER HASP is OSHA-compliant.
HAZWOPER Health and Safety Plan Checklist
Take a quick look at the requirements for HAZWOPER health and safety plans.
Section 112(r) Violators On EPA’s Hit List
CAA Section 112(r) Violators on EPA’s Hit List Protecting communities from hazardous chemical releases is a priority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the requirements of the CAA Section 112(r) is at the center of many related violations. In announcements made in January and March, the EPA highlighted how several companies violated the GDC, […]