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Chemical Safety

Today’s workplace uses thousands of chemicals, many of which are hazardous. The resources in this section will help guide you in the safe and legal identification, storage, transport, and use of these chemicals, and in making sure that your employees right to know how to be safe around such substances is provided, as required by law.
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Chart Your GHS Compliance During the Transition Period

In today's Advisor we refresh your memory of the GHS compliance timetable and highlight necessary revisions of your hazard communication plan.
March 07, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

GHS Update: Time to Think About Training

If you haven't already begun GHS training for employees, you have less than 8 months to get it done. Here's a quick review of key training issues.
March 05, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

Solving the Solvent Problem

Solvents are certainly useful in many workplaces but can also be hazardous to health and may cause fires, explosions, and contamination.
February 17, 2013 | Category: | Read More | 1 Comments

HAZWOPER: Who's Covered? What's Required?

Today, we talk about who's covered by HAZWOPER requirements and specifically what the rules require. We also introduce you to excellent HAZWOPER DVD training library that can help you meet training requirements easily and effectively at a reasonable cost.
December 12, 2012 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

7 Elements of a Compliant HAZWOPER S&H Program

Under HAZWOPER rules, a written safety and health program must be developed for operations and cleanup at hazardous waste sites. Programs must have seven elements.
December 12, 2012 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

Get a Head Start on SDS Training

It's time to start thinking about training on the new safety data sheet (SDS). Here are some ideas to get you started, and a great new BLR product to help you train.
October 09, 2012 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

Can You Answer These Questions About the SDS?

Ready for the new GHS-required safety data sheet (SDS)? Here's a little game of 20 questions to test your knowledge of the new SDS. Use the quiz to check supervisors' understanding of the new format as well.
October 07, 2012 | Category: | Read More | 1 Comments

Why Do We Need GHS? Is the Hazard Communication Standard Obsolete?

Why do we need the GHS? GHS is a Globally Harmonized System of classification and labeling of chemicals, yet we already have OSHA’s hazard communication standard (HCS), so why is GHS necessary?
June 04, 2012 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

Labeling the GHS Way

Today, we'll look key requirements of the new GHS labeling system
May 27, 2012 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments

8 Steps to Facilitate Compliance with GHS

With the hazard communication standard already a regular fixture on OSHA’s most frequently cited standards list, it’s more important now than ever before to understand how GHS affects your hazard communication obligations.
May 07, 2012 | Category: | Read More | 0 Comments
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