Hazard Communication Working Group

This CoP is complementing the information of IFRA and lOFI. It is continuously updated by experts of the industry and the trade by the Hazard Communication Working Group (HCWG) and furnishes for the disposal of people all over the world occupied in handling essential oils and aromatic chemicals an up-to-date recommendation for a proper classification and labeling of hazardous fragrance and flavor raw materials (Protzen, 1989). 

The ILO Working Group considered the application of the General Principles described in the lOMC CG/HCCS Terms of Reference as they apply to hazard communication and recognized that there will be circumstances where the demands and rationale of systems may warrant some flexibility in whether to incorporate certain hazard classes and categories for certain target audiences. 

Developed, by a multidisciplinary team at the University of Cape Town, for the International Labour Office (ILO) Working Group on Hazard Communication as part of international efforts to promote a Global Harmonised System (GHS) for hazard communication. 

Personal communication with the industrial working group Exchange of experiences on hazardous chemical reactions - test methods", chair Dr. M. Steen-sma, AKZO... 

If a SNUR cross-references a subsection of 40 C.F.R. 721.72 then it will be a significant new use to manufacture, import, or process the SNUR substance unless the manufacturers, importers, processors, and users have a hazard communication program to warn about the risks that the substance poses. This group of significant new uses builds on a system of hazard communication established by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA). OSHA has promulgated Hazard Communication Standards that require employers to assess hazards posed by the chemicals they make or import and provide hazard information on labels and in MSDSs. Employers and processors of chemicals that pose hazards must make the labels and MSDSs available in the work place and train their employees in safe handling procedures. 

Baumann J, Orum P. Accidents waiting to happen hazardous chemicals in the U.S. fifteen years after bhopal. U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Working Group on Community Right-to-Know 1999. 

Emergeo Working Group (2013) Liquefaction phenomena associated with the Emilia earthquake sequence of May-June 2012 (Italy). Nat Hazards Earth Syst Sci 13 935-947 Georgiadis T, Pescerelli Lagorio P (2012) The communication of science as an ethical issue the case of Rafifaele Bendandi. Ann Geophys 55 3... 

In mining communities, individuals frequently have multiple affiliations with labor unions, local miners groups, political parties, and work teams. Experienced miners have heard colleagues and management express competing viewpoints—in union halls, pubs, and training sessions. When miners talk about hazards in their work, they frequently represent more than one viewpoint. As this chapter demonstrates, however, agencies may inadvertently silence these diverse viewpoints when they reconstruct events in an accident. 

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