Over the years, EC&M articles have addressed many topics when applying the rules for hazardous (classified) locations. Safety tips for working in hazardous locations, class and division basics, the ...

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in an October 15th interpretive letter clarification of the Hazardous Material Regulation (“HMR”) pertaining to the ...

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels held a teleconference March 20 to announce the final rule for the long-awaited ...

Industry experts are meeting with the Environment Agency experts today (4 September) to discuss potentially “catastrophic” changes proposed for the classification of waste wood. Any item of treated ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has amended its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), 29 C.F.R. § 1910.1200, to align with Revision 7 (Rev. 7) of the United Nations’ Globally ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has revised standards for hazardous communications over the past few years to be more in-line with the Global Harmonized ...

On 30 April 2021, New Zealand adopted a new classification system for hazardous substances under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 (HSNO). This new system is the Globally Harmonised ...

The way hazardous chemical waste is assessed and classified is changing significantly. From this week (June 1), new European rules governing the classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals – ...

The application of the principles and theories of the science of chemistry to answer specific questions or solve real-world problems during hazmat response is street chemistry. It isn’t applying those ...

I once had an experience working with a manufacturing operation that included painting processes for the main production line and a small spray-painting area in the repair section. The facility ...