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Top notch job by OSHA staff to globally harmonize labels and datasheets for chemicals
Posted by The Pump Handle on January 4, 2013
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The OSHA staff responsible to modernizing the agency’s chemical right-to-know regulation with global standards deserve credit for completing the rule itself. Unlike other federal agencies, they also create a meaningful public record documenting who said what about the proposed changes to labeling and safety data sheet requirements. (Re-post)
Top notch job by OSHA staff to globally harmonize labels and datasheets for chemicals
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on March 23, 2012 Earlier this week, Lizzie Grossman reported here at The Pump Handle on revisions to OSHA’s Hazard Communication standard which align the agency’s 30 year old rule with a globally harmonized system for classifying and labeling chemical hazards. In “Moving from Right-to-Know to Right-to-Understand,” we learn how the changes stem from a 2002 United Nations resolution…