1. Hazard Communication Right-to-Know
INSERT GROUP AND DATE INFORMATION
SAMPLE PROGRAM
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2. Supplies Roster Other site specific materials
Demo SDS for example/questions to ask and review handout (collect at end and reuse)
Other site specific materials
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3. Purpose
Where can an employee can find information about the hazards of chemicals to which they may be exposed at work so that they can protect themselves from the effects of overexposure?
Physical hazards
Health hazards
Two laws:
OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard
NYS Right-to-Know Law
NYS Employees are covered by both the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard and the NYS Right-to-Know law. Both are enforced through the NYS Public Employee Safety & Health Act (PESH Act). The NYS Attorney General also takes a role in enforcement of the Right-to-Know law.
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4. Haz Com Standard Major Requirements
Written plan
Inventory of chemicals
Safety Data Sheets and Labeling
Training of employees
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5. Training Haz Com standard and employers written plan
Hazardous chemicals properties and the methods used to detect their presence or release
Physical and health hazards associated with exposure
Procedures to protect against overexposures
Emergency procedures
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6. Goals of Training
Name two laws that protect an employee’s right-to-know about hazardous materials in the workplace.
Name two primary methods used to communicate chemical.
Name two ways chemicals, in general, can cause injury to the body.
Where can I find if a product I am handling can cause an increased risk of pregnancy loss or potentially cause cancer?
Where can I find the type of gloves I should be using?
Who can help me get more information about the chemicals I work with?
Trainer may substitute more site specific or different goals.
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7. Global Harmonization Standard
“Revising OSHA's Hazard Communication standard will improve the quality and consistency of hazard information, making it safer for workers to do their jobs and easier for employers to stay competitive.“
The training looks a little different this year. More changes will be coming with the labels that will start to show up and the new Safety Data Sheets which are replacing Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs).
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8. Changes New look to labels. New pictograms on labels.
More standardized Safety Data Sheets.
Better Safety Data Sheet information.
The new standard covers over 43 million workers who produce or handle hazardous chemicals in more than five million workplaces across the country. The modification is expected to prevent over 500 workplace injuries and illnesses and 43 fatalities annually. Once fully implemented it will also:
Enhance worker comprehension of hazards, especially for low and limited-literacy workers, reduce confusion in the workplace, facilitate safety training, and result in safer handling and use of chemicals;
Provide workers quicker and more efficient access to information on the safety data sheets;
Result in cost savings to American businesses of more than $475 million in productivity improvements, fewer safety data sheet and label updates and simpler new hazard communication training; and
Reduce trade barriers by harmonizing with systems around the world.
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9. More Consistent Language What do you need to protect yourself?
The new labels and SDSs will permit you to easily figure out, consistently, if you should be bubble wrapped, in a moon suit, or something else.
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10. Things that haven’t changed:
Chemicals can only cause health effects when they come into contact with your body.
Routes of Entry
Skin contact (absorption through the skin or damage on contact to skin or eyes)
Inhalation
Ingestion
Injection
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11. Skin Contact Skin irritation or injury
Skin absorption (some things are absorbed through the skin)
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12. Some materials are absorbed through the skin:
Others irritate or burn the skin:
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13. Eye Contact
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14. Inhalation DRAFT GHS General Program, SUNY OCF, 12/19/12
Inhalation is a very effective way to get high doses of chemicals into the body. You can inhale dusts, vapors, mists or fumes.
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15. Exposure Limits assumes 8 hrs/day and 40 hrs/week generally healthy worker population
PEL
TLV
Threshold Limit Value
More responsive to new scientific information
There are other exposure limits that may also be used.
Permissible Exposure Limit
Legally enforceable
For both the PEL and TLV, the higher the number, the less toxic a material is, the more you can inhale without injury
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16. Ingestion AMA's Current Procedural Terminology, Revised 1998 Edition.
Accidental ingestion can occur in the workplace. Sometimes chemical products are stored near food in poorly controlled areas and workers can make a mistake. More likely, is that workers use the products, fail to clean their hands or change out of protective clothing, and then smoke or eat transferring the chemical to the cigarette, their sandwich etc.
 AMA's Current Procedural Terminology, Revised 1998 Edition. 
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17. Injection DRAFT GHS General Program, SUNY OCF, 12/19/12
Less likely in most workplaces, but can occur.
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18. Common Sense: Rules Around Chemicals
Respect fire hazard and be prepared to respond to fires, spills, and other emergencies!
Understand the hazards associated with the chemicals.
Understand the personal protective equipment (PPE) that you need, and all safety procedures.
Use the smallest quantity of the least hazardous chemicals possible.
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19. More Common Sense Rules
When dealing with dust, use wet methods when you can.
Wash after chemical use.
Don’t eat or drink around hazardous chemicals.
Remove protective clothing and equipment when you have finished the job.
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20. Common Sense Don’t mix different chemicals without authorization.
Don’t super-concentrate chemicals that the manufacturer intended to have diluted.
More is not necessarily better.
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21. Planning for Chemical Use
Engineering Controls
Do we need this chemical?
Can we isolate the chemical from the people?
Work Practice Controls
Can we minimize the ways it can impact a worker’s body?
Administrative Controls
Can we limit exposure to certain areas, time periods?
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Gloves, goggles, respirators, moon suits, etc.
Stress that we only go down the list as necessary and that the PPE is the last line of defense.
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22. How are hazards communicated?
Two important tools to supplement supervisor's orientation about hazardous materials in the workplace:
Labels
Safety Data Sheets
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23. Labels: Standardized Form and Language
Symbol – pictogram
Signal Word
Danger (more significant)
Warning
Standard hazard statement
Discuss “danger” vs “warning” with danger being more serious. The hazard statements are based on specific scientific properties and leave less room for ambiguity.
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Point out various sections on the label – e.g., name of the product, pictogram, precautionary language.
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26. Pictograms Black and white pictures with a red diamond border.
Pictures generally give a clue as to hazard.
If a number appears, the smaller the number, the greater the hazard!
Take a few seconds and discuss NFPA diamond vs GHS numbering! Pictograms add the international flare and combat various language/literacy issues.
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27. HMIS & NFPA Diamond 0 means almost no hazard 4 means extreme danger
HMIS Hazardous Materials Identification System
NFPA National Fire Protection Association
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28. New GHS Pictograms
If there is a number with GHS, the bigger the number the lesser the hazard!
Opposite direction from NFPA
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29. Carcinogens cause cancer. Mutagens cause harm to fetuses
Carcinogens cause cancer. Mutagens cause harm to fetuses. Reproductive toxins cause problems in pregnancy and/or getting pregnant (men and women). Respiratory Sensitizer means you may have a heightened reaction on second exposure. Target organ is the organ that is most effected. Aspiration toxic means it irritates or harms when you inhale the liquid or solid.
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30. Flammable means vapors burn.
Pyrophorics will ignite spontaneously when exposed to air.
Organic peroxides can sometimes form explosive compounds by themselves.
Self igniters/heaters get warm over time with access to air.
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31. Sensitizers cause more severe second-exposure reactions.
Irritants irritate.
Sensitizers cause more severe second-exposure reactions.
Acute – short term
Chronic – long term
Example of acute vs chronic – ethyl alcohol short term it that you get relaxed after a few drinks. Chronic drinking causes liver damage.
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32. Gas under pressure can release pressure quickly – causing mechanical hazards and releasing large volumes of gas that can displace air (suffocation potential) or be toxic.
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35. Oxidizers can cause or contribute to fire in other materials.
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38. Bondit
This section for the SDS can be used if more appropriate for some employee groups.
The instructor can choose a more appropriate SDS. The goal is to highlight the various sections and stress that the format will be consistent from manufacturer to manufacturer. In this next section, the intent is that a sample SDS would be handed out and there would be a scavenger hunt-type search for info to answer various questions. This section can be particularly dry, so interaction will help. It’s a quick section, there is no need to bore everyone with excessive details. Students need to develop a sense of where to look for data.
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39. Section 1, Identification
product identifier
manufacturer or distributor info
emergency phone number
recommended use
restrictions on use
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40. What’s the name of the product and what’s the phone number of the manufacturer? What is it used for?
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42. Section 2, Hazard(s) identification
hazards regarding the chemical
required label elements
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43. What happens if this gets in my eyes?
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45. Section 3, Composition/information on ingredients
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46. Section 4, First-aid measures
important symptoms/ effects
acute, delayed
required treatment
What do I do if I got this all over my skin?
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48. Section 5, Fire-fighting measures
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49. Section 6, Accidental release measures lists emergency procedures; protective equipment; proper methods of containment and cleanup.
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50. Section 7, Handling and storage
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51. Section 8, Exposure controls/personal protection
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53. Section 9, Physical and chemical properties
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54. Section 10, Stability and reactivity lists chemical stability and possibility of hazardous reactions.
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55. Section 11, Toxicological information
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57. Section 12, Ecological information Section 13, Disposal considerations
Section 14, Transport information
Section 15, Regulatory information
Section 16, Other information, includes the date of preparation or last revision.
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61. If you transfer chemicals to another container - it MUST be labeled.
Secondary Labeling
If you transfer chemicals to another container - it MUST be labeled.
Name of product
ABC Cleaner
General hazard warning information
WARNING: May cause eye irritation! Avoid eye contact!
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62. NYS Right-to-Know Law 12 NYCRR Part 820
Notice to Employees posted.
MSDS/SDS information must be provided on request.
Must be provided within 72 hours of employee request (excluding weekends and holidays). The employee can not be required to work with a chemical for which the information has not been provided after that 72 hours, until the info is provided.
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63. Initial and annual training for employees routinely exposed to toxic substances.
The education and training program shall include, but may not be limited to, the following: (a) the location of toxic substances to which the employee may be exposed; (b) the properties of toxic substances to which employees may be exposed; (c) the name or names of the toxic substance, including the generic or chemical name; (d) the trade name of the chemical and any other commonly used name; (e) the acute and chronic effects of exposure at hazardous levels; (f) the symptoms of effects of exposure at hazardous levels; (g) the potential for flammability, explosion and reactivity of such substance; (h) appropriate emergency treatment; (i) proper conditions for safe use and exposure to such toxic substance; (j) procedures for cleanup of leaks and spills of such toxic substance.
Go over this briefly!
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64. Recordkeeping requirements
Protection from disciplinary actions for exercising rights under this law.
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67. Where do you get chemical info?
Insert info for given campus.
Insert info for facility.
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68. Goals of training
Name two laws that protect an employee’s right-to-know about hazardous materials in the workplace.
OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard
NYS’s Right-to-Know Law
Name two primary methods used to communicate chemical.
Labels
Safety Data Sheets
Revisit the goals stated at the beginning with answers. You can try to make this interactive.
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69. Name two ways chemicals, in general, can cause injury to the body.
There are four “routes of entry” – skin contact, inhalation, ingestion, and injection.
Where can I find info if a product I am handling can cause an increased risk of pregnancy loss or potentially cause cancer?
Info would be on a SDS. Discuss with your healthcare provider.
Where can I find the type of gloves I should be using?
Info would be on the SDS and often the label.
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70. Who can help me get more information about the chemicals I work with?
Recap facility information.
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