The Hazard Communication Standard is an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation. The Hazard Communication Standard may also be referred to as the Right-to-Know Law, RTK, or ...

Chemical manufacturers, importers, and distributors are required by regulation to label every hazardous chemical container as described in section 3.2. As long as the original label is affixed and ...

Likewise, new compounds and materials are being made within our labs that may also have their own unique qualities that can pose their own safety hazards. It is important that in handling chemicals ...

The Department of Environmental Health & Safety has launched a comprehensive campus-wide chemical inventory system. This system has been developed to effectively monitor hazardous chemicals across UAB ...

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) National Toxicology Program (NTP) List of Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Reproductive Toxicity National Institute for ...

UAB’s Chemical Safety Training (CS101) is based on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Laboratory Standard. The goal of the Laboratory Standard is to educate employees about the ...

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recognizing the unique characteristics of the laboratory workplace has tailored a standard for occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals in ...

SDSs use the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), a universal system designed to provide a consistent method of communicating chemical hazards. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ...

Since 1990, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has required "employers engaged in the laboratory use of hazardous chemicals" to have a Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP). The Purdue ...

These give more specific information on what the hazards are and how to handle the chemical. More information about a chemical is supplied in the Safety Data Sheet (SDS). These are supplied with the ...