Employers can see that employee training, while part of the first and final deadlines in OSHA's GHS transition period, is actually an ongoing obligation. OSHA's final compliance deadline for the ...
OSHA wants you to train your workers in Hazard Communication, and wants you to do it by Dec. 1 of this year. The trick? It’s a totally new curriculum. Hazard Communication — more commonly known as the ...
In practical use, the “right to know” in HazCom has meant giving workers access to information. We label chemicals and provide MSDS, but that doesn’t mean workers understand them. When OSHA announced ...
Now that OSHA has aligned the hazard communication (HazCom) standard with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS), the clock has run out on the ...
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (Jan. 9, 2013) -- Soldiers and civilians who handle hazardous chemicals as part of their job will soon begin training for changes coming to the labeling and classification of ...
The Purple Wave for workplace hazard communication -- the popular metaphor representing growing worldwide interest in a global standard -- is about to come ashore to the United States, as OSHA ...