Hazards, occupational information

Employees should be fully informed of the potential hazards associated with their jobs. Regulations, such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard, require that hazard information be communicated not only to employees, but also to users of manufactured products (OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.1200 Hazard Communication). Information is communicated partly through material safety data sheets and labels. Education and training of employees about health hazards they may encounter on the job, along with appropriate protective measures, should be conducted by a multidisciplinary health team of relevant specialists and trained health educators. 

Many individuals who depend on television and radio for information probably believe that working in a chemical plant is a hazardous occupation. This myth is exposed by facts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics chemical plant employees enjoy one of the safest occupations. With all the federal pressures on the chemical industry to reduce injuries even further, it is astonishing that the second leading cause of death for the entire U.S. workplace was homicide in 1995. 

This collection of several CD-ROM products provides a wealth of legislative, regulatory, handbook, directory, numeric, and bibliographic information focusing on occupational health, workplace safety, environmental hazards, regulatory information, and safety topics. There are 12 titles currently available. International in scope. Vendor Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety. Environmental/Safety Library ... 

Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. Chemicals and biological agents in Haz-Map are linked to industrial processes and other activities such as hobbies. Occupational diseases and their symptoms are associated with hazardous job tasks and possible exposure to hazardous agents. Information from textbooks, journal articles, and electronic databases such as HSDB (described above) is classified and summarized to create this database. 

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Website http //www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/whmis/index.htm Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, MSDS http //ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca/msds/search.html (payment req d )... 

NIOSH/OSHA Occupational Health Guidelines for Chemical Hazards NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards Sax s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials U.S. Dept, of Transportation Emergency Response Guidebook U.S. Dept, of Transportation/U.S. Coast Guard Chemical Hazard Response Information System (CHRIS) ... 

Five other special purpose labeling systems should be mentioned in a handbook on the subject of precautionary labeling. These are the National Fire Protection Association (l PA) 704 system, the National Institute for Occupational Safety Health (NIOSH) system, the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) proposal, the NPCA Paint Label Guide, the NPCA Hazardous Materials Information System (HMIS) and ANSI a jimct systems by the J. 

With its state-of-the-art software and hardware development and the development of the advantages of the developed countries in terms of supervision of occupational hazards has been in a leading position, are more representative of countries such as United States, Australia and so on. They have set up their own occupational hazard supervision information system. In addi-... 

The platform should support automatic, semi-automatic and manual matching of data collection methods. For enterprises with comprehensive data acquisition conditions, support automatic monitoring system installed in workplaces, automatically obtain the relevant occupational hazard data, and real-time, reliable, convenient transmitted to the monitoring center, connect to the network server to receive and enter the occupational hazards regulatory information the database server of the system to achieve real-time monitoring of the occupational hazards source-to-multipoint (occupational hazard source monitoring points) state parameters (central station). With some data collection capabiUties but can not work on-site networked enterprise, support for portable mobile device to import data enterprises do not have the data acquisition conditions, you can use the manual entry of data collected system data. 

Chemical Hazards Response Information System (CHRIS) Database. Sodium Cyanide, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) (on CHEMpendium CD-ROM, CCOHS). 

Is the risk associated with the hazard acceptable Information may be required at this stage including relevant standards or codes of practice, and the relevant occupational health and safety legislation. 

Documentation of the safely requirements should include a description of the safely systems. It will need to detail when and how the system should be maintained, the safety precautions necessary before maintenance and the testing procedures afterwards, and describe methods of logging faults and failures. There should be well-defined safe systems of work for potentially hazardous occupations such as checking the system online. It is important that such safe systems of woik are tailored to any existing safe systems of work which are relevant to the process. The documentation will also need to include explanation of any extra training necessary for operators or maintenance staff. Last but not least, it should contain a complete and easy-to-use index so that all the information is easily accessible to any level of user. 

Hazardous Materials Information Database http //atsdrl.cdc.gov 8080/atsdrhome.html. Institution of Occupational Safety and Health http //www.iosh.co.uk/. 

G. Cla57ton and F. Cla57ton, eds., Patty s Industrial Hygiene andToxicology, 3rd ed., Vol. 2A, John Wdey Sons, Inc., New York, 1981, pp. 2089—2091. "Aryl Sulfonic Acids and Salts," Information Profiles on Potential Occupational Hayards, Vol. II, Chemical Classes, Center for Chemical Hazard Assessment, Syracuse Research Corp., U.S. Dept, of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1979. 

The book does not focus on occupational safety and health issues, although improved process safety can benefit each area. Detailed engineering designs are outside the scope of the book. This book intends to identify issues and concerns in batch reaction systems and provides potential solutions to address these concerns. This should be of value to process design engineers, operators, maintenance personnel, as well as members of process hazards analysis teams. While the book offers potential solutions to specific issues/concerns, ultimately the user needs to make the case for the solutions that best satisfy their company s requirements for a balance between risk reduction and cost. In many instances the book provides one or more sources of additional information on the subject which could be of value to the reader. 

Product information in detail should be available and potential hazards should have been identified and occupational health preventive measures taken. Safe disposal of waste should be well under control. 

The motivation for ensuring good indoor air quality should be obvious. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 emphasizes the need for standards to protect the health and safety of workers. To fulfill this need, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed a strategy for disseminating information that assists employers to protect their workers from workplace hazards. This strategy includes the development of Special NIOSH Hazard Reviews, which support and complement the major standards development and hazard documentation activities of the Institute. These documents deal with... 

Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) on compact disc from the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (can buy at CCOHS web site). "The HSDB(R) (Hazardous Substances Data Bank(R)) database contains data profiles on 4,500 potentially toxic chemical substances. It is created and updated by specialists at the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Compiled from an extensive range of authoritative sources, HSDB is widely recognized as a reliable and practical source of health and safety information. Much of the data is peer reviewed. 

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.)... 

Founded as the National Asbestos Council, EIA is a resource for professionals in the management and control of health hazards to occupants of buildings, facilities, and industrial sites. It de >elops and disseminates information about asbestos, lead based paint hazards, underground storage tanks (USTs), indoor air quality, solid and hazardous waste. 

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