Hazard Communication

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Hazard Communication

• Kris Rossmiller, EHS

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What is Hazard Communication

• In 1983, OSHA established the Hazard
  Communication Standard
• Right to Know
• Hazards in the Workplace

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Hazard Communication

• Consists of three major parts
• Evaluation and identification of potential
  hazards
• Labeling and Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Training of employees (and students

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Evaluation and Identification

• Requirements (Chemical Hazards)
• Create and maintain inventories of chemicals and
  other hazardous items
• Inventories must be accurate and available to
  those working with them

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Labeling and MSDS

• Labeling is a crucial part of hazard
  communication
• Proper labels should contain
• Name and manufacturer of chemical
• Hazards of product
• Name of person responsible for said chemical

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MSDS

• Material Safety Data Sheets
• Mandated by Law
• No consist form
• Can be informative or not

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MSDS

• How to read
• Section 1-Chemical Product Company Information
• Section 2-Chemical Composition
• Section 3- Hazard Identification

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MSDS

• Section 4 First Aid Measures
• Section 5-Fire Fighting Measures
• Section 6-Accidental Release
• Section 7 Handling Storage

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MSDS

• Section 8 Exposure Control
• Section 9- Physical and Chemical Properties
• Section 10-Stability and Reactivity
• Section 11- Toxicology

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MSDS

• Section 12- Ecological Information
• Section 13 Disposal Considerations
• Section 14 Transportation Inform.
• Section 15-Regulatory

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MSDS

• Available online from Drake at
• www.drake.edu/ehs
• MSDS Online
• Username is drakestudent and the password is
  drakeedu

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Pictograms

• Flammable
• Defined by OSHA as having a flashpoint 100ºF or
  lower
• Combustible
• Defined as having beingable to burn once
  heatedabove 100ºF
• Pyrophoric
• Can spontaneously ignitebelow 130ºF

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Labeling, contd (reactivity)

• Explosive
• Mixture cautions
• Oxidizers
• Corrosiveness

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Labeling, contd (Health)

• Environment Damage
• Poison
• Radioactive

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Example of proper label
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Labeling

• HMIS

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HMIS

• HMIS Hazardous Material Identification System
• Hazardous information for public
• 4 number system
• 4 most hazardous

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NFPA

• NFPA- National Fire Protection Assoc.
• Hazard Information for Firefighters
• Number Scale 1-4
• 4 Most Hazardous

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NFPA

• Diamond divided into 4 section
• Blue-Health
• Red- Fire
• Yellow-Reactivity
• White-Other (water reactive)

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NFPA vs HMIS

• NFPA and HMIS are NOT the same.
• Different criteria for numbers
• HMIS required to be on all containers

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OTHER HAZARDS

• Hazards in the Workplace
• Electricity -Shock
• Burns
• Slips Trips
• Cuts
• Fire

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Hazards

• Hazards in Workplace
• Car Accidents
• Severe Weather
• Human bites (disease)
• Natural Disaster
• Workplace Violence

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Questions?

• HAPPY HALLOWEEN