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Hazard Communication Program

10.0 LABORATORY REQUIREMENTS 

The Hazard Communication Program has four requirements for laboratories. 

  • Ensure that labels on incoming containers of hazardous chemicals are neither removed nor defaced. 
  • Maintain any MSDSs that are received with hazardous chemicals, and ensure that MSDSs for all hazardous chemicals in the work area are readily accessible to laboratory employees during the times they work in the laboratory and to emergency response personnel. 
  • Provide information and training to employees regarding the hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their first work assignment and again whenever a new health or physical hazard is introduced into their work area. Laboratory employees are to receive the same training as discussed in section 4.0. Additionally, laboratory employees must understand and follow the standard operating procedures for the correct handling of hazardous chemicals as covered in Chemical and Biological Safety In Laboratories and their laboratory-specific laboratory-specific profile within ISIS. 
  • Laboratories that produce a chemical and ship the chemical to another user outside of the laboratory must provide an MSDS and labels for chemical containers. If a new chemical is produced in the laboratory for which no MSDS and label is available, then there is no MSDS and label to provide.

See Chemical and Biological Safety In Laboratories for further information regarding the hazards of chemicals used in laboratories. 

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