Provisions of the Hazard Communication Standard
As stated in the previous slide, there are five major provisions of the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, with which employers must comply. They are:
Chemical Inventory - A list of the hazardous chemicals in
the workplace
Material Safety Data Sheets, or MSDS for short, must be available for each hazardous
chemical with which you work. MSDSs are documents which give very detailed hazard
information for a particular chemical.
Labeling - Labels must be
affixed to each chemical container in the workplace. Labels must identify the
container contents and warn the user of any hazards that may exists while using the
chemical.
Training - Employers must
inform their employees of the hazards of chemicals in their workplace, and train them on
how to work safely with those chemicals.
Written Program - There must be
a written hazard communication program, or policy, in the workplace which detail
how the employer complies with the provisions of the Hazard Communication Standard.