Communication information, alternate formats

Products falling within the scope of the GHS will carry the GHS label at the point where they are supplied to the workplace, and that label should be maintained on the supplied container in the workplace. The GHS label or label elements should also be used for workplace containers. However, the competent authority can allow employers to use alternative means of giving workers the same information in a different written or displayed format when such a format is more appropriate to the workplace and communicates the information as effectively as the GHS label. For example, label information could be displayed in the work area, rather than on the individual containers. 

Improved communication with clients, owners, customers, and stakeholders in areas such as overall document format and content, level of document detail, data and information sources, assumptions made, approaches taken, alternatives developed, and recommendations considered. 

Chemical manufacturers, importers, distributors, and employers who become newly aware of any significant information regarding the hazards of a chemical must revise the labels for the chemical within six months of becoming aware of the new information and must ensure that labels on containers of hazardous chemicals shipped after that time contain the new information. OSHA says that chemical manufacturers, importers, distributors, and employers must be in compliance with all modified provisions of the Hazard Communication Standard no later than June 1, 2015, except Distributors have until December 1, 2015, to ensure that containers labeled by the chemical manufacturer or importer are not shipped unless the label has been modified to comply with GHS format for container labels. All employers have until June 1,2016, to update any alternative in-house labeling such as signs, placards, process sheets, batch tickets, operating procedures, or other written materials used to convey hazard information ... 

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