OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) was first adopted in 1983 for the manufacturing sector. In 1987, the agency expanded the scope of coverage to include all industries where employees are ...

Twenty years ago, the Occupational Safety & Health Administration began requiring companies that manufacture or market hazardous chemicals to prepare and issue material safety data sheets (MSDSs).

Your business, shop or warehouse contains chemicals unrelated to the primary work done at your company. Normal exposure to these chemicals combined with other chemicals and compounds used by your firm ...

Material safety data sheets (MSDSs) are the cornerstone of compliance for a number of OSHA and EPA standards. Yet, as notorious as they are among safety professionals, some argue that MSDSs remain ...

The roots of material safety data sheets (MSDS) can be traced to prehistoric times, when information about materials used in medicines and dyes was exchanged verbally. The first written MSDS were ...

Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and Hazard Communication (HazCom) programs are central to chemical safety, yet in many workplaces they function primarily as compliance requirements rather than practical ...

In 2012, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) revised the Hazard Communication System (“HCS”) and other regulations to conform them to the United Nations Globally Harmonized ...

Inform yourself about hazardous materials before working with them. Start by reading the container label and reviewing the product's Safety Data Sheet (SDS). The Occupational Safety and Health ...

Prepared in accordance with frameworks such as the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), SDS documentation is required across major regulatory environments, including the OSHA Hazard Communication ...

If you're prepping for CHEM 43A this semester, the safety protocols for your core solvents just got an update. New 2026 revisions to the SDS for ethyl acetate, 2-propanol, and MTBE introduce stricter ...

Learn how SDS authoring software helps regulatory teams manage GHS compliance, version control, and multilingual documentation across complex chemical portfolios.

Like this puzzle, chemical safety has several pieces that together create the whole picture for working with chemicals in a safe manner. At the center of this puzzle is you, the employee or student.