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TRAINING: HAZARD COMMUNICATION
be provided as needed, i.e., if employees are working unsafely. OSHA allows you to design information and training to cover specific chemicals or categories of hazards, such as flammability or carcinogenicity. If you have few chemicals, you may wish to train on specific chemicals, while a large number of chemicals may be
better suited to training by hazard category.
Training must include:
■ An explanation of the HazCom Standard at 1910.1200. In
sum, the standard gives employees the right to know and under- stand the hazards of the chemicals they work with. Information about chemical hazards must be passed downstream from the manufacturer, importer, or distributor to the employer, who then shares it with employees who will be exposed to these hazards. This information is in the form of labels and SDSs;
■ The location, availability, and details of the employer’s writ- ten HazCom program, including the required list of hazardous chemicals;
■ How to read SDSs and use the information they contain (i.e., first aid information), and how to access SDSs in the workplace (i.e., binder or computer in the work area);
■ An explanation of the labels received on shipped containers and the workplace labeling system used by the employer (if differ- ent than on shipped containers);
■ Operations in the work area where hazardous chemicals are CORPORATE PROFILE
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■ How to detect the presence or release of a hazardous chemi-
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■ The physical and health hazards of the chemicals in the work area; and
■ How employees can protect themselves from these hazards, including specific procedures the employer has in place to protect employees, such as appropriate work practices, emergency proce- dures, and personal protective equipment (PPE) to be used.
If you have employees who do special, non-routine tasks that may expose them to hazardous chemicals - such as a tank clean out - you must inform them of those chemicals’ hazards, how to control exposure, and what to do in an emergency. This also means evaluating the hazards of these tasks and providing appropriate controls, including protective equipment and any additional train- ing as required.
You also must inform employees of the hazards associated with chemicals contained in unlabeled pipes in their work areas.
And finally, on multi-employer worksites, the employer is re- sponsible for providing updated training when their employees are exposed to new hazards, even if these hazards are created by other employers.
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