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A worker needs to use a chemical she’s never even heard of before. She understands one thing about it, though: the familiar and frightening poison symbol on the label.

Knowing her “right to know” about chemical hazards, she asks where she can read the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) on the substance. “Ask the boss,” a co-worker tells her. “He keeps it in his office.”

Is there an OSHA violation here? After all, the company does have MSDSs for the chemicals it uses. The answer is in BLR’s new special report, The Top OSHA Violation: How to Avoid the Most Common HazCom Mistakes.

We wrote the report because, year after year, the Hazard Communication Standard, 29 CFR 1900.1200, popularly called the “Employee Right to Know Act,” is the most commonly violated OSHA regulation. Recent data shows more than 2,000 violations of the type above, with adjusted fines of over $700,000.

If you read the report, you’d know that the violation in the example above is that while the company had MSDSs, they did not have open access to the documents for workers. OSHA feels that making an employee ask to see an MSDS might discourage getting the vital information workers need. If OSHA knew that bosses held this company’s MSDSs, the organization could have been cited.

Getting into such nuances of the law is what this report is all about. It answers questions like these:

--What exactly are the access rules for HazCom information

--What display options do you have for this information?

--What 12 items must be on an MSDS, and how are they arranged in the commonly used Z400-1 ANSI standard version of the form.

--How much responsibility do you bear if your chemical supplier mistakenly labels a hazardous chemical?

--Suppose you have hundreds or even thousands of chemicals on hand. How can you structure the mandated training so it takes a minimum of time and effort but still meets OSHA standards?

An Actual Prewritten Hazard Communication Program

At the heart of the report is an actual, prewritten hazard communication program. While this is a sample, it contains many elements you may be able to use in creating your own plan, in convenient, fill-in-the-blank format.

Just add the names or job titles responsible for each mandated task, fill in the chemical inventory section, and you may well have your plan virtually complete. There’s also a handy checklist to audit what you’ve done—and a reference copy of the complete federal Hazard Communication Standard, reset in easily-readable type.

In short, BLR’s special report, The Top OSHA Violation: How to Avoid the Most Common HazCom Mistakes, gives you much of what you need to keep your company off this year’s violation list. A good thing, indeed.

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