The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is considering possible modifications to the recently adopted Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals after the United Nations made revisions to the universal standard in December. The major change in the revision requires chemical manufactures to include language on new risks created when products are [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Division (OSHA) is proposing more than $60,000 in fines against a fitness club in Illinois for failing to protect workers from hazardous chemicals. The fines come after OSHA found four repeat safety violations at the Xsport Fitness facility in Libertyville, Illinois. Those violations were for failing [...]
In a report released Friday, the Centers for Disease Control discusses their findings in a chlorine gas release that occurred at a Tyson chicken processing plant in Springdale, Ark., last summer. The gas release that left nearly 200 sickened resulted from a worker pouring bleach into a barrel that still contained the acidic residue from [...]
Each year hundreds of thousands of workers are exposed to hazardous materials in the workplace. To protect these workers government safety regulators require employers to train their employees on the hazards of these chemicals. Regardless of the amount of training your employees receive, at some point an accident will happen. To help ensure their preparedness [...]
Chemical safety is an important topic in not only the workplace, but the home, school and anywhere else a person may come into contact with chemicals. To help address those concerns and raise chemical awareness the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety has released a rap video touting the need for chemical safety. Check out the [...]
The Federal Department of Occupational Safety has announced the new hazard communication standard, featuring the implementation of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), will be published in the Federal Register March 26 and become law May 25,2012. The implementation of the GHS will align OSHA’s hazard communication standard with the United Nations’ chemical labeling system and [...]
The US and Canadian governments are working together to ensure a consistent implementation of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) into the countries’ existing hazard communication regulations, according to Maureen Ruskin, director of the Office of Chemical Hazards at the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA). The GHS is a universal system of chemical hazard identification [...]
The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently completed its review of OSHA’s revised hazard communication standard, eliminating the last major hurdle in the path of adoption. With the review complete OSHA will now incorporate comments made by OMB into the standard and publish in the Federal Register. It is a process expected to [...]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s adoption of the Globally Harmonized System into its existing Hazard Communication standard is being pushed back until February, according to OSHA spokeswoman Kimberly Darby. OSHA originally submitted the text for the final rule to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) on [...]
Along with its final report on three accidents that left five dead and three injured in a Tennessee metals plant, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board called on the Occupational Health and Safety Administration to develop and publish a combustible dust standard that includes coverage for metal dusts. The Hoeganaes powdered metal plant in Gallatin, Tennessee [...]
