Globally Harmonized System of Hazard Communication
If you sell chemicals in Europe, you are familiar with the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) regulation known as CLP. CLP is part of the larger chemical regulation known as REACH (Regulation (EC) 2015/830). Major changes [...]
Proposed changes will have negative time and cost impact on Safety Data Sheet generation Last week 12 major chemical organizations sent a joint letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Martin [...]
Quantum Tips for Identifying Your Requirements In interacting with customers every day, we field a number of questions that are commonly posed to us. We thought it would be helpful to share [...]
Keys to Canadian Worker Safety Health Canada’s WHMIS or Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System is the Canadian national hazard communications standard. It parallels the United States OSHA’s (Occupational Safety and [...]
National Law Review Summarizes Testimonial Feedback Update: October 8, 2021 As detailed in our previous reporting regarding the proposed OSHA Hazcom updates, many chemical manufacturing trade organizations have echoed [...]
Quantum Joins Industry to Advocate for a Safer Alternative The proposed revisions to the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) that are designed to achieve alignment with the 7th Revision to [...]
Meeting the challenge of tracking thousands of SDS Compliance becomes more complex a task when companies are selling or transporting chemicals across-regional borders. The reason for this is that there are often [...]
Update: July 16, 2021 I like to say that GHS (the Globally Harmonized System) is certainly global, but far from ‘harmonized’. Some ‘flavor’ of GHS has been adopted or is being evaluated in over 70 [...]
