Communication hazards

Physical Hazard A substance for which there is scientifically valid evidence that it is a combustible liquid, a compressed gas, explosive, flammable, an organic peroxide, an oxidizer, pyrophoric, unstable, or water reactive. 

Responsible Party Someone who can provide additional information on the hazardous substance and appropriate emergency procedures, if necessary. Substance Any element, chemical compound, or mixture of elements and/or compounds. 

Workplace Any place, and the premises appurtenant thereto, where employment is carried on, except a place of health and safety jurisdiction over which is vested by law in, and actively exercised by, any state or federal agency other than the division. 

The overall coordination of the facility hazard communication program should be handled by the occupational safety and health manager (or other technically qualified designee). This coordinator should act as the senior facilitating official who is accountable for the entire program. 

Chemical Hazard Communication Guidebook OSHA, EPA, and DOT Requirements 

Andrew B. Waldo and Richard deC. Hinds, Executive Enterprises Publications Co., Inc., 1991, ISBN 1-55840-758-8, 583 pages, 75. 

This book fully discusses requirements set forth by OSHA, EPA, and DOT for communicating chemical hazards. Up-to-date chemical lists for emergency planning, spill reporting, and toxic chemical release reporting are Included. 

Community Advisory Panels Options for Community Outreach 

Draft ANSI Standards for the Preparation of Material Safety Data Sheets 

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Occupational Safety and Health J ct. OSHA regulations deal principally with physical aspects of safety and those things generally associated with accident prevention. These federal regulations deal especially with the need for estabHshed material safety data sheets and the proper labeling of printing inks under the Hazard Communication Laws. 

The hazards associated with handling pigments is contained ia the MSDS mandated by an OSHA Hazards Communication Standard (28) which also requires labeling and employee information and training. 

Code of Federal Regulations, Tide 29, part 1910.1200, OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, D.C. 

The flash point of PPS, as measured by ASTM D1929, is greater than 500°C. Combustion products of PPS include carbon, sulfur oxides, and carbonyl sulfide. Specific hazards are defined by the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (158). Based on information in 1995, PPS does not meet any of the hazard definitions of this standard. 

The toller needs to be familiar with all raw materials, intermediate materials, products and wastes, used, produced or generated, respectively, while operating the process. Tollers in the U.S. should comply with the Federal OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, codified as 29 CFR. 1910.1200 and any similar state right-to-know laws that are currently in force or may be enacted during the term of the contract. This is often stated in the contract. The contract may require the toller to inform its employees of the chemical hazards associated with products or chemicals and may also be responsible for training its employees in the proper handling methods. The toller has an obligation when in doubt about a product or chemical, to seek further information from the product s manufacturer. 

Eederal OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, codified as 29 CER 1910.1200 and any similar state right-to-know laws... 

Table 6. Target Organ Effects Categorized Under the Hazard Communication Act...

The required notification must be provided at ieast annually In writing. Acceptable forms of notice are, for example, a letter, product labeling, and product literature distributed to customers. If you are required to prepare and distribute a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for the mixture under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard, your section 313 notification may be attached to the MSDS or the MSDS may be modified to include the required information. (A sample letter and recommended text for inclusion in an MSDS appear on pages E-4 and E-5 of this appendix.)... 

Any product which you keep a material safety data sheet (MSDS) for, in accordance with the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, must be reported, if it was present at your facility in the preceding year, at 10.000 pounds or more at any on time. 

Besides lead, there may be a variety of other substances that a worker may be exposed to. Earlier in this chapter we mentioned the possibility of mobile laboratories. If your site does have a mobile lab, there are a variety of other regulations that should be considered. Of course, hazard communication comes into play. A typical laboratory can have volumes of material safety data sheets in its libraries. Besides hazard communication, you should determine whether a chemical hygiene plan is a requirement. In addition, we need to consider how the laboratory might affect the site emergency plan. 

All employees, working with highly hazardous chemicals must understand the safety and health hazards (29CFR1910.1200 - the Hazard Communication Standard) by knowing the properties of the chemicals with which they work, safe operating procedures, work practices, and emergency action. 

Probably one of the most important safety and healtli standards ever adopted is tlie OSHA hazard communication standard, more properly known as tlie right to know laws. The liazard communication standard requires employers to communicate information to tlie employees on liazardous chemicals tliat e.vist witliiii the workplace. The program requires employers to craft a written luizard communication program, keep material safety data sheets (MSDSs) for all haztirdous chemicals at the workplace and provide employees with training on tliose hazardous chemicals, and assure tliat proper warning labels are in place. 

Probably one of the most important safety and healtii standards ever adopted is the OSHA hazard communication standard, more properly known as tiic right to know laws. 

It is important to note that OSHA specifics the information to be included on an MSDS, but docs not prescribe the precise format for an MSDS. A non-mandatory MSDS form that meets the Hazard Communication StancLird requirements has been issued and can be used as is or c.xpandcd as needed. The MSDS must be in English and must include at least Oie following information presented in Table 10.5.1, In reviewing this material, Uie reader should understand tlic effect and importance of each subsection in helping to identify a chemical hazard, particularly tlie section on healtli hazards. 

Employers must ensure that their workers know the potential hazards of the chemicals they work with, how to protect themselves against those hazards (e.g., safe practices, personal protection equipment, etc.), and what to do in case of an emergency. Accordingly, OSHA has established basic communication requirements under the Hazard Communication Standard to inform workers about chemicals in use in the workplace. Under this standard, chemical makers must meet the following requirements ... 

A written hazard-communication program must describe the employer s efforts to tell employees about the standard and how it is being implemented at the worksite. 

OSHA Hazard Communication Standard. Subpart Z, Toxic and Hazardous Substances 29 CFR 1910.1200 section g. Material Safety Data Sheets. 

The mission of the OSHA is to save lives, prevent injuries, and protect the health of employees in the workplace.25 OSHA accomplishes these goals through several regulatory requirements including the hazard communication standard (HCS) and the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Worker Protection Standard (HAZWOPER). 

The HCS was promulgated to provide workers with access to information about the hazards and identities of the chemicals they are exposed to while working, as well as the measures they can take to protect themselves. OSHA s HCS requires employers to establish hazard communication programs to transmit information on the hazards of chemicals to their employees by means of labels on containers, material safety data sheets, and training programs. 

Clamsky KB, ed. 1986. Chemical guide to the OSHA hazard communication standard. Burlingame, CA Roytech Publications, Inc., 68-E-3. 

Material Safety Data Sheet May be used to comply with OSHA s Hazard Communication Standard. 25 CFR 1910.1200. Standard must be consulted for specific requirements. U.S. Department of Labor A Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Non-Mandatory Form) Form Approved 0MB No. 1218-0072... 

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) An MSDS contains descriptive information on hazardous chemicals under OSHA s Hazard Communication Standard. The data sheets also provide precautionary information on safe handling, health effects, chemical and physical properties, emergency phone numbers, and first aid procedures. 

Hazard assessment, 12 813-814 pilot-plant, 19 464 Hazard classes, 25 340 Hazard communication, 25 339-343 Hazard Communication Standard (OSHA), 21 592... 

In the EU, the current chemical control measures, based on a network of legislation for hazard communication and safety assessment, are soon to be dramatically revised. To set the scene for this forthcoming fundamental change to chemical control in the EU, the key facets of the existing measures are described briefly i.e., notification of new chemical substances, the relatively-limited measures to evaluate existing substances and hazard communication. There have been problems with the current scheme, principally the disparity between the safety data on new and existing substances. 

Classification and Hazard Communication for Dangerous Chemical Substances and Preparations in the EU... 

Hazard communication to users of dangerous chemical substances and preparations is accomplished by labelling and by means of safety data sheets (SDS), which give more detailed information to industrial users. An SDS has to be provided on request to the public for non-industrial preparations. There is a standard EU 16-heading format (Table 5) specified in the SDS Directive (a. 8). 

The ways in which polymer additives are regulated by EPA and OSH A are clarified and the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and Hazard Communication Standard are discussed, paying particular attention to important TSCA... 

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