OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) is designed to protect against chemical-related workplace injuries and illnesses by ensuring employers and employees have the necessary information to ...

The field of industrial hygiene (IH) is evolving. As Baby Boomers retire and long-held IH roles are increasingly being restructured, outsourced, or integrated into broader OH&S programs, many ...

On March 1, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its “Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule” (SCCAP Rule), amending the Risk Management Program (RMP) “to ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule (the “Rule”) that substantially expands its Risk Management Program (“RMP”) regulations aimed at preventing chemical accidents.

There is not a one size fits all solution when it comes to managing chemical hazards, according to PepsiCo. Alex Mendes, vice president of global food safety and microbiology at PepsiCo, spoke ...

A little past 4 a.m. on June 21, 2019, workers at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery in Philadelphia noticed a leak from a corroded pipe, and were immediately on high alert. The leak had ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to modify an industrial safety regulation covering the activities of some 11,000 chemical-related manufacturing, warehouse, and storage facilities.

The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) group, which has a goal of achieving zero discharge of hazardous chemicals by 2020, released its 2015 Chemical Management System (CMS) Guidance Manual ...

The biggest problem with chemical management today is that each company, each country, and each organization can have its own way of doing things, which makes for costly and complicated supply chain ...

Chemical information management is a great field for chemical scientists who love conducting research and have strong technical skills and computer expertise. These careers typically involve spending ...

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