The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) that is designed to enhance employee health and safety by aligning the classification and ...

In addition to identifying who needs training, compliance with OSHA HCS means having a thorough written training program in place. OSHA provides a Draft Model Training Program employers can use for ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has amended its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1200, to align with Revision 7 (Rev. 7) of the United Nations’ Globally ...

You are the new safety manager of a chemical plant, which has about 700 hazardous chemicals. You examine the plant training records, and see that employees spent an inordinate amount of time being ...

The proposed revisions to the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) that are designed to achieve alignment with the 7th Revision to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of ...

When we discuss training in the transportation industry, most of us think of driver training. While driver training is an important aspect of all motor carrier safety programs, there's another group ...

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The Hazard Communication Standard is an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation. The Hazard Communication Standard may also be referred to as the Right-to-Know Law, RTK, or ...

In your workplace, you probably use many different chemicals in the form of solvents, paints, varnishes, and lubricants. The workplace itself contains additional chemicals, including those used by ...

When I think about the topic of hazard communication system (HCS) requirements, a famous quote from Strother Martin in “Cool Hand Luke” comes to mind: “What’s we’ve got here is failure to communicate.

Employers will need to offer safety training for their workers on the new Globally Harmonized System pictograms and safety data sheet format by December 1, 2013. The Hazard Communication Standard, ...

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