Are Chemical Management GHS Secondary labels compliant with HazCom 2024 regulations?
The standard for workplace labels is flexible and performance-based, allowing employers to choose how to communicate the hazards; OSHA will determine subjectively if a workplace label system is compliant based on how well it performs the task of informing employees about the chemical hazards. One of the options is to use all of the information that is required of manufacturers, but in section ii below (Taken from OSHA Hazard Communication Standard 1910.1200) you can see that the requirement doesn’t specify the exact information required on workplace labels. It solely states that you are required to have a mix of information that is combined with immediately available documentation (SDSs) to communicate hazards.
(ii) Product identifier and words, pictures, symbols, or a combination thereof, which provide at least general information regarding the hazards of the chemicals, and which, in conjunction with the other information immediately available to employees under the hazard communication program, will provide employees with the specific information regarding the physical and health hazards of the hazardous chemical.
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Also in regards to workplace labeling:
(f)(6) Workplace labeling. Except as provided in paragraphs (f)(7) and (f)(8) of this section, the employer shall ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace is labeled, tagged, or marked with either:
(i) The information specified under paragraphs (f)(1)(i) through (v) for labels on shipped containers; or,
(f)(7) The employer may use signs, placards, process sheets, batch tickets, operating procedures, or other such written materials in lieu of affixing labels to individual stationary process containers, as long as the alternative method identifies the containers to which it is applicable and conveys the information required by paragraph (f)(6) of this section to be on a label. The employer shall ensure the written materials are readily accessible to the employees in their work area throughout each work shift.
Chemical Management‘s GHS labels cover all of these scenarios depending on which information you’ve indexed or chosen to print on the label.
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