OSHA has updated the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) by adopting the Global Harmonized System (GHS) of classification and labeling of chemicals. GHS replaces the provisions of the MSDS safety data ...
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, ...
The intent of the 1991 GHS UN mandate was to encourage and enhance commercial chemical trade by adopting a standardized approach to hazard classification, labels and safety data by improving the ...
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels held a teleconference March 20 to announce the final rule for the long-awaited ...
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 ...
Trade and Industry Undersecretary and Board of Investments managing head Elmer C. Hernandez yesterday urged the adoption of the international system of classification and labeling of chemicals or GHS ...
The adoption and implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) into the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) Hazard ...
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (Jan. 9, 2013) -- Soldiers and civilians who handle hazardous chemicals as part of their job will soon begin training for changes coming to the labeling and classification of ...
On September 30, 2009, OSHA announced that it will be pursuing GHS. GHS -- the Globally Harmonized System of chemical classification and labeling -- is the next step in the march towards greening the ...