SDSpro Advisor Newsletter
Understanding the final GHS deadline
By: http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/ After many years, the final effective completion date for the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) nears. As we know, OSHA adopted new hazardous chemical labeling requirements as a...
Inside the investigation into US chemical plant explosion
By: http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/ The chemical ammonium nitrate has been linked to several major explosions all over the world, including one at a chemical plant in the U.S. state of Texas that exploded in 2013. More than a dozen people died. The...
OSHA Taking Comments on Chemical Hazards Guidance
By: http://www.ohsonline.com/ OSHA announced it will issue new guidance on how to apply the Weight of Evidence approach when dealing with complex scientific studies and, on Feb. 16, will begin accepting comments on its Guidance on Data Evaluation for Weight of...
OSHA and DOJ to Join Forces on Safety Violations/Penalties to Increase
By: http://www.jpsupra.com/ Employers that violate safety-related laws are likely to face more aggressive enforcement and steeper penalties in the future under new legislation allowing the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (“OSHA”) to increase its civil...
Senate Votes to Overhaul Chemical Safety and Ban Beads in Beauty Products
By: http://www.nytimes.com/ In a flurry of year-end legislative activity, the Senate last week approved a bill to overhaul the nation’s chemical safety system, and a separate measure to ban the use of tiny plastic beads in beauty products that can pollute waterways...
Chemical Safety Board Prepares to Fire Managing Director
By: http://www.govexec.com/ The managing director of the Chemical Safety Board, who has been on paid administrative leave for five months because of an inspector general’s suspicions, got word on Monday that he is being proposed for termination. Daniel Horowitz, along...
Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Revised Hazard Communication Standard
By: http://www.natlawreview.com/ The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA’s”) Hazard Communication (“HAZCOM”) standard was the most frequently cited OSHA standard in the hospitality industry last year. The HAZCOM standard has always been a challenge...
OSHA instructs inspectors on enforcing hazcom standard
By: http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/ OSHA compliance officers have a new instruction document that outlines inspection procedures for the agency’s updated Hazard Communication Standard. The document details the revisions made to the standard, including...
Deadly Blasts Expose China’s Work Safety Woes
By: DIDI TANG The Associated Press Beijing • By official data, China is becoming safer from accidents year after year. But the explosions over the Tianjin port last week are a stark reminder that it has far to go in preventing workplace disasters — from blasts on...
Enforcement Guidance for the Hazard Communication Standard’s
By: OSHA.gov The purpose of this memorandum is to provide enforcement guidance on the June 1, 2015 effective date – the date by which chemical manufacturers, importers, distributors and employers must be in compliance with all modified provisions of the HCS, other...
U.S. House panel proposes version of Lautenberg chemical safety legislation
By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders, including ranking Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., on Wednesday offered their own version of legislation to update the way the government regulates toxic chemicals....
Fix Chemical Safety Bill to Honor Lautenberg, Protect the Public
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board Few people realize that while pharmaceuticals have to go through rigorous testing before being introduced to the public, that’s not true of the chemicals in your household cleaners, furniture and baby toys. They’re not even tested to...
TSCA Reform: Senate Committee Holds Hearing on Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
By Bergeson and Campbell, P.C. of jdsupra.com On March 18, 2015, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (S. 697). A detailed analysis of S. 697 is available in our March 13,...
OSHA Exercising Enforcement Discretion for HCS Compliance
By Christopher Bryant of Jdsupra.com The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on February 9, 2015, issued enforcement guidance on the June 1, 2015, effective date for the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). The guidance states that OSHA will not...
OSHA cites MFG Chemical Inc. for repeated safety hazards after 2 workers injured, 1 killed
By the Northwest Georgia News DALTON, Ga. – An MFG Chemical Inc. worker died after hazardous chemical vapors released from an overpressurized reactor burned his respiratory system. A second employee was treated at a hospital and released. A July 2014 inspection by the...
Hand sanitizers—you know you need them, but what do you know about them?
By Elaine Quayle, Editor It’s that time of year again. You probably had your flu shot clinic already and/or have encouraged employees to get their shots offsite. But you know you are facing the headache of numerous absences when colds, stomach bugs, and influenza...
AG sends Notice of Endangerment and Intent to Sue to U.S. Dept. of Energy and its contractors to protect workers from hazardous Hanford tank vapors
By the Washington State Office of the Attorney General After 20 years and many reports and studies, federal government still not adequately protecting Hanford workers SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson is sending the U.S. Dept. of Energy, and its contractor,...
Chemical Accidents: Speak Up for Our Right to Know What is Happening in Our Communities
By Andrew Rosenberg, director, Center for Science & Democracy In this rich and powerful democracy that is the United States, the statistics on chemical accidents are more than shocking—they should be a wake-up call. There have been around 30,000 documented...
Chemical reform bill faces uphill battle in Senate
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER, Associated Press Efforts to come up with a new chemical regulation bill face an uphill battle in the Senate. Over the summer, Sens. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and David Vitter of Louisiana, the top Republican on the Senate Environmental and Public...
Medical News Today
By Honor Whiteman Past research has associated exposure to solvents with liver and kidney damage, respiratory impairments, reproductive damage and even cancer. Now, a new study suggests that individuals exposed to solvents – such as paint, glue and degreasers – at...