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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tailored a standard for occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals in industrial, clinical, and academic laboratories. The final standard was effective May 1, 1990.
The OSHA standard requires that the employer must develop and carry out the provisions of a written Chemical Hygiene Plan. The purpose of the CHP is to provide the necessary work practices, procedures, and policies to ensure the protection of employees from potentially hazardous chemicals in use in their work area.
OSHA Lab Standard
A. Standard for occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals in industrial,
clinical, and academic laboratories.
B. The final standard as effective May 1, 1990.
C. Requires written Chemical Hygiene Plan.
1. Provide the necessary work practices, procedures, and policies to ensure the protection of employees from potentially hazardous chemicals in use in their work area.
2. Copies of both the OSHA lab standard and its appendices and the Bradley University Chemical Hygiene Plan are kept in the main stockroom (Olin room #238) and are available to all employees.
3. Includes these general guidelines for working in the laboratory.
a. Become acquainted with the location of fire
extinguishers, eye wash stations, and
drench showers
b. In any situation requiring immediate first aid for a student, the Health Center should be contacted (ext. 2700). Call from Chemistry office room # 201. After normal office hours or in an extreme emergency, use the emergency telephones located in the hallways outside of each laboratory. No number is dialed. Simply picking up the phone rings security. Give location and describe nature of emergency.
c. Injury to student employee -- accident report -- Workman's comp. -- company physicians
d. Fire alarm does not alert fire department.
They must be called.
e. Refer to Chemical Hygiene Plan Basic Rules and
Procedures lA(a-q)
4.The MSDS and bottle label provide information on appropriate personal protective equipment (i.e. eye, hand and body protection as well as fume hood use requirement). Material safety data sheets are kept on file in Olin room # 238 and are available for reference. It should be noted that other reference material relating to the safe handling of hazardous materials is also available in Olin room # 238.
e.g. Fisher ChemAlert label
NFPA code diamond
| Blue: Health |
| Yellow: Reactivity |
| Red: Flammability |
| white: Special Warnings |
Older chemicals will have less complete information.
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