NIOSH Testimony on the Hazard Communication Standard by R. W. Niemeier, February 10, 1989.

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony provides material requested by OSHA regarding the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). The material contained in this testimony includes a report of the World Health Organization's International Programme on Chemical Safety which presents information on preventing accidents involving chemicals, health effects from exposure, protective equipment, first aid, emergency response, and disposal. Also included in this testimony are the ten strategies contained in the NIOSH Proposed National Strategies for the Prevention of Leading Work Related Diseases and Injuries, a data base on compact disc which is a compilation of up to 250,000 pages of occupational safety and health information developed by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, and information from SilverPlatter, a private company which produces compact discs containing data bases including NIOSHTIC from NIOSH, HSELINE from the Health and Safety Executive of the United Kingdom, and CISDOC from the International Occupational Safety and Health Information Center of the International Labour Organization.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Naphthalenes Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Industrial-hazards Legislation; Niemeier-R-W NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Testimony Occupational-safety-programs Regulations Toxic-materials Work-environment Worker-health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196239
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1989 Feb:2 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c655da400dcd13cee22a0674a4c43c4aba28b63305d7274799690918f371ead58af89183887be528e752ac6b81d2e943154ca14d56d8f313739d3b27227087c7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180422/cdc_180422_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 138.57 KB ]