Next HazCom Standard Hearing
An Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) plan to bring out a fresh standard or revisal an previous one commonly generates acrimony or lawsuits, but the proposed changes to the Hazard Communication Standard could be an exception. OSHA declared last December that it would accommodate informal public hearings on the plan in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh. The Los Angeles one has been called off because few people subscribed to speak.
The hearing in Washington passed off March 3, with Frank White, ORC Senior Vice President and Ann Brockhaus, EHS Networks Director bearing witness in support of OSHA’s plan to coordinate the HazCom Standard with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. The ORC Senior Vice President thanked the agency for making GHS a precedence and called up the alliance “an important step in making OSHA a global leader in safety and health.”
HazCom is the standard that commonly leads in the peak number of citations brought out to employers, and experts believe the conjunction is a good act that will saddle end users and chemical producers with a major compliance worry early on.
The Pittsburgh hearing will set out at 9:30 a.m. EDT on March 31 in 112 Washington Place at the Marriott Pittsburgh City Center.
