Globally Harmonized System of Hazard Communication
With the final GHS compliance deadline nearly two months old, OSHA expects every company to be in perfect compliance with the new standard. With the recent civil fines hike, non-compliance will be more costly than [...]
The final GHS deadline was back in June, but that doesn’t mean employers can ignore HazCom from now on. On the contrary, it’s just as important as ever for companies to keep their HazCom Management [...]
Since at least 1989, OSHA has allowed employers to use electronic SDS management systems to fulfill their HazCom obligations. This is great, since electronic systems are generally a lot more convenient and intuitive than a [...]
A new rule went into effect last week that changed some guidelines for American SDS. If you don’t amend your SDS to take these changes into account, you might find yourself out of compliance. The [...]
A recent survey of EH&S professionals found that nearly half of them didn’t think their companies were meeting GHS compliance standards. This news comes almost a month after the final deadline for full GHS compliance, [...]
Last Monday, OSHA issued a scathing citation of New Jersey based Oaxaca Mexican Products. The citation included twenty-four violations (one of which was willful and twenty of which were serious), and came with over $100,000 [...]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is an organization to stay aware of. Even if your business does not explicitly concern matters of air travel, you still likely interact with or even create products that [...]
On the first day of June of this year, the final Hazard Communication Standard deadline will take effect. As per the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s ruling, all chemical substances must be properly labeled [...]
