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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Labeling Requirements Under OSHA's HAZCOM Standards

OSHA's responds to letters asking for clarification and interpretation of rules, codes and standards. OSHA then publishes those responses on their web site. The College of American Pathologists asked several interesting questions about labeling requirements which OSHA answered here.

Their questions include:

Is it necessary to label each bottle of reagent even if it will be used in a timely manner?

Are coding systems acceptable in place of writing precautionary information on secondary containers?

Does this requirement apply only to hazardous chemicals or to all chemicals used by a laboratory?

Labels: hazard identifcation, osha information, rtk labels, workplace safety