How and when will OSHA's updated Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), which will now be aligned with the Globally Harmonized System of Chemical Labeling (GHS), impact chemical labeling? Read on for a ...

In the chemical industry, safety is of the utmost importance. OSHA estimates that more than 43 million employees in the United States could be exposed to hazardous chemicals. 1 Implementing ...

Happy 2015! The arrival of the New Year means that we are just six months away from the deadline in which all safety data sheets (SDSs) and labels must comply with the new HazCom 2012 standards. This ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has made changes to the Hazard Communication Standards to comply with the mandates of the Global Harmonized System. The ...

Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) is a standardized, international approach to hazard communication. The standard, which was previously known as the 'Right ...

The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals is a new worldwide initiative for the standardized classification of hazardous chemicals and a communication system for ...

A concrete step that many nations are taking to implement the new worldwide strategy for managing chemicals is adoption of a global system for labeling and classifying substances. The Globally ...

In a world economy, many countries both import and export to the United States a wide variety of goods, including chemicals. The global chemical business is more than $1.7 trillion each year, ...

Under the old system, in which manufacturers developed their own labeling, chemical labels sometimes varied widely in the information provided. Figures 2.1 and 2.2 are labels for the same chemical. As ...