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HazCom Employer’s Guide
Hazardous chemicals are a leading cause of workplace injuries and illnesses. In addition to costly workers’ compensation claims and embarrassing publicity, failure to control chemical hazards at your workplace is […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 1: Learn the Standards
What You NEED To Do As an employer, you are required by law to comply with the following HazCom standards: Hazard Communication, Subpart Z standards, the OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) standard. […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 2: Identify Responsible Parties
What You NEED To Do As an employer, you need to identify a single person that is responsible for "owning" the HazCom program. Too many cooks in the kitchen make it […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 3: Create Hazardous Chemical Inventory
What You NEED To Do As with any other hazard, the starting point in managing chemical dangers is to identify and assess hazards at your own workplace. Specifically, you must create […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 10: Quiz/Knowledge Checks
What You NEED To Do Your occupational safety and health responsibility to your employees is not that HazCom training is given, it is that HazCom training is understood. Use knowledge checks […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 11: Retrain/Retention
What You NEED To Do It cannot be stated enough, your occupational health and safety responsibility to your employees is not that HazCom training is given, it is that HazCom training […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 12: Audit
What You NEED To Do Each year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) releases a list of the 10 most frequently cited safety and health violations for the fiscal year. Violations […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 4: Source SDS
What You NEED To Do The HazCom standard requires employers to ensure that each hazardous chemical used in the workplace have a safety data sheet, or SDS. Your supplier should provide […]
HazCom Employer’s Guide
Step 5: Substitution Plan
What You NEED To Do Eliminating chemical hazards in the workplace removes the risks they pose. The next best is substituting the hazardous chemical for something non-hazardous or less hazardous. These […]