In a world economy, many countries both import and export to the United States a wide variety of goods, including chemicals. The global chemical business is more than $1.7 trillion each year, ...

The new symbol is fairly simple: A red diamond surrounds a cartoon of a dead tree above a dead fish. Under a new international system, materials packaged in a container bearing this pictogram are ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- The Occupational Health and Safety Administration has made changes to the Hazard Communication Standards to comply with the mandates of the Global Harmonized System. The ...

The adoption and implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) into the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) Hazard ...

Coming soon to factory floors, laboratories, and store shelves: new labels for chemical products that will look similar throughout the world. There are standard symbols for properties such as ...

One year after OSHA's June 1, 2016, "Globally Harmonized System" (GHS) label end user deadline, more than 21 percent of companies had not yet met all requirements, according to a new survey. The ...

How and when will OSHA's updated Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), which will now be aligned with the Globally Harmonized System of Chemical Labeling (GHS), impact chemical labeling? Read on for a ...

I once had an experience working with a manufacturing operation that included painting processes for the main production line and a small spray-painting area in the repair section. The facility ...

In the United States, OSHA set a June 1 deadline for end users to update their workplace chemical labels. If compliance is lacking, industrial end users must be prepared to document for OSHA their ...