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31 Secondary Container Label Requirements Osha

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A label and describes what pictograms are and how to use them. Secondary containers used to contain the product.

Container Labels Secondary Container Labeling Osha Requirements

Check with your supervisor about labeling secondary containers when in doubt.

Secondary container label requirements osha. While chemical shipping containers must have the full ghs label osha provides employers with a lot of flexibility to create their own secondary container labeling systems. Osha requirements for secondary container labels. Are coding systems acceptable in place of writing precautionary information on secondary containers.

For further information on labeling requirements see oshas compliance instruction on the hcs cpl 2 238d which will provide further guidance on chemical labeling and other. Secondary chemical containers are the chemical containers most often found in the workplace. Your letter requested clarification of oshas hazard communication standard hcs 2012 29 cfr 19101200 with regard to labeling of containers in the workplace and the availability of safety data sheets sds.

Osha requires every original chemical container to have a primary shipping label from the manufacturer with a few exceptions. Where in osha does it require all this. Drugs for patient care consumer chemicals and pesticides including disinfectants and dental unit waterline cleaners are not subject to the labeling requirements.

Osha has not changed the general requirements for secondary container labeling specifically. One common case where you do not have to label a secondary container is if the container is portable and will be used immediately by the person who transferred the chemical into that container. The chemical manufacturer must ensure that primary label is marked with the following information.

The laboratory standard requires that labels on incoming containers of hazardous chemicals not be removed or defaced per paragraph 19101450h1i but does not have a specific labeling requirement for secondary containers of hazardous chemicals in a covered laboratory. Label requirements labels as defined in the hcs are an appropriate group of written printed or graphic informational elements concerning a hazardous chemical that are affixed to printed on or attached to the immediate container of a hazardous chemical or to the outside packaging. Thank you for your letter to the occupational safety and health administrations osha directorate of enforcement programs dep.

The only exceptions are if you take the time to first place a label that displays all the required information onto the new container or mark the information onto the secondary container with a permanent marker. Please see our reply to your first question. Secondary containers what are they and whenhow to label them.

Employers have the option to create their own workplace labels by using all of the information provided by the manufacturer or using a combination of the elements in the ghs label example above specific to the hazards of the chemicals.

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