If an employee were to be injured today by a hazardous chemical in your facility, how confident are you that the employee (or anyone) could locate the safety data sheet in a reasonable amount of time? These days, that’s the threshold for OSHA compliance. More importantly, it’s the minimum threshold for being a responsible employer.
Where chemicals are concerned, the world has changed dramatically in the last few years. A growing chorus of community, political and regulatory stakeholders is calling for greater chemical responsibility. Think of the biggest stories of the last few years that were not centered on war or the economy. They include the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and subsequent cleanup during the spring/summer of 2010; the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion in April 2013; and the Charleston, West Virginia, hazardous chemical spill this past January that contaminated the community’s water supply.