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Today’s workplace uses thousands of chemicals, many of which are hazardous. The resources in this section will help guide you in the safe and legal identification, storage, transport, and use of these chemicals, and in making sure that your employees right to know how to be safe around such substances is provided, as required by law.
Recently, a subscriber asked the following question: Where can I find a list of all CAS numbers that correspond to the final ruling on crystalline silica for general industry? I notice new exposure levels are talked about but not linked to a chemical/CAS number.
EPA’s Chemical Accident Prevention Program, more commonly referred to as the Risk Management Program (RMP), and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Process Safety Management (PSM) program will always go hand in hand, as both seek to prevent chemical process accidents and protect workers and the public from the sometimes devastating consequences of such […]
In a final rule, the EPA has extended the deadline for submitting information required by the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule (July 22, 2015, FR) from September 30, 2016, to October 31, 2016. The Agency states that this is a onetime extension, applying only to the 2016 submission requirement. The amended deadline results from a […]
One of the benefits of the recent reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was supposed to be the preemption of state programs, meaning that states would not be allowed to pile chemicals on top of the ones regulated on the federal level. Well, that happened—or did it? Today we’ll take a peek at […]
If you are an environment, health, and safety (EHS) manager in any number of industries, you likely face the ongoing task of dealing with solvents in your workplace. Today we will offer tips for protecting your workers from exposure to solvents.
The U.S. EPA recently announced that it is extending the reporting window for submitting TSCA Chemical Data Reports (CDR) from September 30 to October 31, 2016. This one-time extension is due to difficulties being experienced with electronic reporting.
The practice of integrated pest management (IPM) helps to minimize the use of chemical pesticides by controlling pests to the extent possible using nonchemical means. But it is not always possible to completely control pests without chemicals.
Yesterday we looked at the possible routes of exposure and toxic effects of pesticides on workers in nonfarm occupations who do not apply pesticides. These workers—as well as customers and clients—can be exposed to toxic doses of pesticide residues after pesticides are applied in the workplace. One way to prevent those types of exposures is […]
Did you know that OSHA’s new Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) standard adds to your Hazard Communication training requirements? It requires your training to be a bit lengthier than usual by specifying topics to be covered in training for employees who are exposed to RCS.
Nobody wants to eat at a restaurant with a cockroach problem, sleep at a hotel with a bedbug problem, or work in a building with a termite problem. But in some cases, our solution to the presence of these pests can be as bad as the pests themselves: When we fill our work spaces with […]