GHS Hazard Communication

Employee Training

November 2013

California State University, Northridge

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

OBJECTIVES:

-- Understand Hazard Communication including revisions to GHS

-- Label Requirements

-- Safety Data Sheets

Purpose of Hazard Communication Standard

The Hazard Communication Standard provides

employers and employees with information

about the chemical hazards on the job, and how

to protect against those hazards.

Globally Harmonized System (GHS)

2012 Revisions of the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) conform with the United Nations‘ GHS System.

GOAL:-- To provide a common and coherent approach for classifying chemicals.

-- Communicate hazard information on labels and safety data sheets.

Globally Harmonized System (GHS)

Major Changes:

-- Label Requirements

-- Safety Data Sheets

Who is Affected?

Manufacturers, Distributors, Importers:-- Change SDS information, format and labeling.

Employers:-- Train employees on changes to SDS and Labels.

Employees:-- Recognize and understand new labels and SDS.

Hazard Communication Standard – General Training

EMPLOYER RESPONSIBILITY:

-- Implement a Written Program.

-- Identify and list hazardous chemicals in

the workplace.

-- Obtain Safety Data Sheets and labels for

chemicals.

-- Communicate hazard information to

employees.

Hazard Communication Standard – General Training

Training is required for employees who

are exposed to hazardous chemicals in

their work area:

-- At the time of initial

assignment

-- Whenever a new hazard

is introduced into their work area

Employer Responsibility

-- The Written Program is managed by CSUN

Department of Environmental Health and Safety &

Risk Management (EH&S)

-- Information regarding hazardous chemicals used in

this workplace can be found by contacting individual

faculty, or the EH&S office.

-- Use the internet to obtain the latest SDS on

chemicals used in the individual lab.

-- For further information contact: William Lee, dept

safety coordinator, at extension 3371.

What is a Hazardous Chemical?

Any chemical classified as a physical or

health hazard that can do harm to your

body.

How Chemicals Enter the Body

-- Ingestion – swallowing the

chemical

-- Inhalation – breathing in the

chemical

-- Absorption – chemical passes

through the skin

Solid

Liquid Gas

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The Three Forms of Chemicals

Label Requirements:

Each container of hazardous chemicals entering the workplace must be labeled or marked with:

-- Identity of the chemical

-- Appropriate hazard warnings

-- Name and address of the responsible party

-- Labels must be legible and in English.

Label Requirements:

Chemical manufacturers and importers must provide a label that includes:

- Product Identifier

- Signal word

- Pictogram

- Hazard Statement

- Precautionary Statement for each hazard class and category.

- Supplier Information

label requirements

Labels Requirements - Secondary Containers

- Same label as the

original label

OR

- Product Identifier

- Words, pictures,

symbols, or a

combination

- No conflicting hazard

statements or warnings.

Training – Shipping Labels

- Effective June 1, 2015 all shipping labels will be

required to have all GHS label elements.

- Department of Transportation (DOT) regulates

shipping containers and has unique pictograms.

Transport Pictograms

Flammable Liquid Flammable Gas

Flammable Aerosol

Flammable solid Self-Reactive

Substances

Pyrophoric (Spontaneously

Combustible) Self-Heating Substances

Substances, which in contact with

water, emit flammable gases

(Dangerous When Wet)

Oxidizing Gases Oxidizing Liquids

Oxidizing Solids

Explosive Divisions 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Explosive Division 1.4 Explosive Division 1.5 Explosive Division 1.6

Compressed Gases Acute Toxicity (Poison): Oral, Dermal,

Inhalation

Corrosive

Marine Pollutant Organic Peroxides

Label Requirements – Pictograms

Label Requirements – Pictograms

-- 9 pictograms (8) regulated by OSHA

-- Categorized as follows:

-- Health Hazards

-- Physical Hazards

-- Environmental Hazards*

Label Requirements – Pictograms: Health Hazards

-- Acute Toxicity ( Fatal/ Toxic)

-- Irritant/Skin Sensitizer

-- Skin Corrosion/Serious eye

damage

-- Carcinogen

-- Respiratory sensitizer

-- Reproductive toxicity

Pictogram – Health Hazard, Acute Toxicity

Pictogram – Health Hazard, Irritant

Pictogram – Health Hazard

skin corrosion/ serious eye damage

Pictogram – Health Hazard, Carcinogen

Label Requirements – Pictograms: Physical Hazards

-- Explosives

-- Flammables

-- Gases Under Pressure

-- Oxidizers

-- Corrosive to Metals

Pictogram– Physical Hazard, Explosive

Pictogram– Physical Hazard, Flammable

Pictogram – Physical Hazard, Gas Under Pressure

Pictogram – Physical Hazard, Oxidizer

Pictogram – Physical Hazard, Corrosive to Metals

Pictogram – Environmental Hazard

Acute Aquatic Toxicity

Label Requirements - Pictograms, review

➢Can you identify which are the health

hazards and physical hazards pictogram?

➢Which pictogram is not regulated by

OSHA?

Label Requirements - Signal Words

Used to indicate severity of hazard:

-- Danger - more severe

-- Warning - less severe

Label Requirements - Hazard Statements

Standardized sentences that describe

level of hazard

Label Requirements– Precautionary Statements

Steps employees can take to protect themselves

Safety Data Sheets

-- Must be in English

-- Required to keep for at least 30 years

-- Hardcopy and/or electronic

-- Readily accessible

Safety Data Sheets

-- Under the revised HCS Standard, Material Safety

Data Sheets (MSDS) are now called Safety Data

Sheets (SDS).

-- All SDSs will have a consistent 16-section format.

Safety Data Sheets: 16 - section format:

1. Product and Company Identification

2. Hazard Identification

3. Composition / Information On Ingredients

4. First Aid Measures

5. Fire Fighting Measures

6. Accidental Release Measures

7. Handling and Storage

8. Exposure Control / Personal Protection

9. Physical and Chemical Properties

10. Stability and Reactivity

11. Toxicological Information

12. Ecological Information

13. Disposal Considerations

14. Transport Information

15. Regulatory Information

16. Other Information

12.Ecological information*

13.Disposal considerations*

14.Transportation information*

15.Regulatory information*

16.Other information

* These sections will not be enforced by OSHA

because they do not have jurisdiction (e.g. EPA,

DOT, CPSC, FDA).

Safety Data Sheets: sections 12-15*

Training – how to read a safety data sheet

-- Print or download the attached file on

the sample SDS of Chlorine

Training – how to read a safety data sheet

SECTION 1 – IDENTIFICATION:

Identifies the chemical name, recommended uses and provides

the essential contact information of the supplier.

SECTION 2 - HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION:

Appropriate warning information associated with those

hazards.

SECTION 3– COMPOSITION/INGREDIENTS:

Identifies chemical name; impurities and stabilizing Additives;

mixtures.

SECTION 4- FIRST AID MEASURES:

Recommendations for immediate medical care; important

symptoms

Training – how to read a safety data sheet

SECTION 5 – FIRE FIGHTING MEASURES:

Suitable and unsuitable extinguishing methods.

SECTION 6 – ACCIDENTAL RELEASE MEASURES:

Special precautions, personal protective equipment,

emergency procedures.

SECTION 7– HANDLING AND STORAGE:

Precautions for safe use and storage

SECTION 8- EXPOSURE CONTROLS/PERSONAL

PROTECTION:

Exposure limits, engineering controls, protective

measures.

Training – how to read a safety data sheet

SECTION 9 – PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES:

Physical and chemical properties associated with

substance or mixture, such as color, odor.

SECTION 10 – STABILITY AND REACTIVITY:

List of conditions that should be avoid, for example,

static discharge.

SECTION 11– TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION:

Information on routes of exposure, inhalation, ingestion,

skin and eye contact.

SECTION 12- ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION:

Anything toxic to aquatic life, fish, birds, plants, etc…

Training – how to read a safety data sheet

SECTION 13 – DISPOSAL CONSIDERATION:

Special handling procedures for discarding waste including types

of containers.

SECTION 14 – TRANSPORT INFORMATION:

Special conditions to move within or outside premises.

SECTION 15– REGULATORY INFORMATION:

Additional regulatory information of the chemical or mixtures

SECTION 16 – OTHER INFORMATION

Date of last SDS preparation or revision.

Final review

-- Overview of Hazard Communication

Standard

-- Globally Harmonized System (GHS)

-- Labeling Requirements

-- Safety Data Sheets