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GEOGRAPHY US
LAST REVIEWED
SOURCE:
011/4/13
CHEMICAL SAFETY COMPLIANCE
CHECKLIST
THE PROBLEM: Hazardous chemicals are a leading cause of workplace injuries and illnesses.
In addition to costly workers’ compensation claims and embarrassing publicity, failure to control
chemical hazards at your workplace is a good way to get into deep trouble with OSHA. Here’s a
game plan for avoiding these consequences.
HOW TOOL HELPS SOLVE THE PROBLEM: Here’s a Checklist you can adapt and use to
perform a self-assessment and ensure you comply with OSHA chemical safety requirements,
especially under the Hazcom and new GHS standards.
Templates and tools from SafetySmart Compliance are provided for members of our service. Members may use this document as is, or as a
starting point to customize their own documents. SafetySmart Compliance assumes no responsibility for the effectiveness or enforcement of
any of its online templates or tools. Always consult your legal counsel and management before implementing any new policies or procedures
at your organization.
CHEMICAL SAFETY COMPLIANCE
CHECKLIST
A. WRITTEN HAZARD COMMUNICATION PROGRAM
Item
Yes No
Comments
Company has a written Hazard Communication Program (HCP)?
HCP has been read and understood by all affected parties?
Person(s) designated to compile chemical inventory and keep it
current?
Chemical inventory has been compiled?
Chemical inventory is kept current?
Person(s) designated as having responsibility for obtaining and
maintaining MSDS/SDS?
Procedure in place for review of MSDS/SDS of new products
before they’re purchased to determine presence of hazardous
chemicals?
Method in place for notifying workers of chemical hazards,
including of performing nonroutine tasks?
Method in place for notifying onsite contractors of hazardous
chemicals used, stored or handled on the site?
Procedures in place for working safely with or near hazardous
chemicals?
HCP includes method for ensuring information related to
hazardous materials introduced into work by contractors?
HCP includes method for informing building occupants of
hazardous materials and usages to which they may be exposed?
HCP describes methods of complying with MSDS/SDS, labels,
and worker safety information and training requirements?
HCP made available to workers and their designated
representatives?
Schedule in place for modifying HCP to ensure compliance with
GHS requirements?
B. CHEMICAL LABELS & WARNINGS
Person(s) designated to ensure chemical labels are legible, in
English and prominently displayed on containers?
Audit system in place to periodically check for labels that may
have fallen off or become unreadable?
Where re-labeling is done, the labeling system clearly conveys
the chemical name and hazard warning?
All labels and hazard warnings include all information and
Templates and tools from SafetySmart Compliance are provided for members of our service. Members may use this document as is, or as a
starting point to customize their own documents. SafetySmart Compliance assumes no responsibility for the effectiveness or enforcement of
any of its online templates or tools. Always consult your legal counsel and management before implementing any new policies or procedures
at your organization.
hazard symbols required by Hazcom and/or GHS?
All workers informed of hazards associated with chemicals
contained in unlabeled pipes in their work areas?
Schedule in place for ensuring that all Hazcom labels are
replaced with new GHS labels by June 1, 2016?
C. MSDSs & SDSs
System in place to ensure each hazardous chemical has a proper
MSDS or SDS?
All MSDSs/SDSs are in English?
System in place to review for and remedy missing, incorrect,
incomplete or out of date MSDS/SDSs?
All labels and hazard warnings include all information and
hazard symbols required by Hazcom and/or GHS?
MSDSs/SDSs kept in a binder in an area where they are
immediately available to all affected workers during all shifts?
System in place for auditing compliance with MSDS/SDS
compliance?
System in place for ensuring MSDSs/SDSs are received with all
shipments of hazardous chemicals brought into the workplace?
System in place to ensure old MSDSs/SDSs are replaced with
new ones?
MSDSs/SDSs or key information from them retained for at least
30 years?
Schedule in place for ensuring that all MSDSs are replaced with
new SDSs by June 1, 2016?
D. WORKER TRAINING & SAFETY INFORMATION
All exposed workers receive Hazcom training?
Training is provided by a person who’s knowledgeable in the
Hazcom standard and familiar with the specific chemicals used
in the workplace?
All exposed workers to receive GHS training by Dec. 1, 2013?
Templates and tools from SafetySmart Compliance are provided for members of our service. Members may use this document as is, or as a
starting point to customize their own documents. SafetySmart Compliance assumes no responsibility for the effectiveness or enforcement of
any of its online templates or tools. Always consult your legal counsel and management before implementing any new policies or procedures
at your organization.