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 ...

Although the GHS's most current version is Revision 8, published in 2019, OSHA is aligning with the previous version of the GHS, published in 2017. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...

OSHA's recent final rule on HazCom aims to improve worker protection by enhancing the consistency and clarity of hazard communication standards, aligning them more closely with the Globally Harmonized ...

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The final rule to align OSHA’s HazCom Standard with GHS Rev 7 is expected this year. Stakeholders throughout the chemical supply chain will need to understand how the changes will affect them. This ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed a new rule to update its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to bring it into alignment with the latest version of the United ...

The final rule updates OSHA’s incorporation by reference section, 29 C.F.R. Section 1910.6, to include certain national and international consensus standards. The final rule states that where OSHA has ...

On February 16, 2021, the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking to update its Hazard ...