This type of training must occur early, often, and as close or specific to the actual location and usage scenario as possible. Employee training is one of the five key pillars to OSHA's Hazard ...

Fail-Safe: An experiment that is being monitored by a device to shut down the experiment if, for instance, a loss in water pressure or electricity to the experiment could cause a fire, explosion, or ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (July 15, 2019) - Every individual working with or near chemicals must understand the associated risks to avoid injuries. Failure to recognize a chemical hazard puts workers at risk ...

With over 900,000 chemicals that could show up in a workplace, chemical safety and management is one of the most complex challenges employers and employees face at work. To better protect workers from ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has amended its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1200, to align with Revision 7 (Rev. 7) of the United Nations’ Globally ...

The Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) requires employers to establish hazard communication programs to transmit information on the hazards of chemicals to their employees by means of labels on ...

Hurricane Harvey has reminded us that much of America's chemical infrastructure is in serious peril. The fires and explosions at the Arkema peroxide plant in Crosby, which sickened first responders ...

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Next month, OSHA, EPA and the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will co-sponsor a roundtable on reactive chemical process safety, a meeting that is intended to help the administration decide whether to ...

Like this puzzle, chemical safety has several pieces that together create the whole picture for working with chemicals in a safe manner. At the center of this puzzle is you, the employee or student.