OSHA is soliciting applications for Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training Grants to provide training and education programs on safety and health for workers and their employers.
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Whistleblowers.gov offers quick worker access to whistleblower protection information.
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Download the OSHA Alliance Quarterly Review, June 2010 (PDF)

Visit the SCHC-OSHA Alliance page for fact sheets

“The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from A to Z (And Beyond)”
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“Introduction to OSHA,” a new training component emphasizing workers’ rights, is required content in every OSHA 10- and 30-hour Outreach Training Program class.

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Also issues directive on protecting non-English speaking workers from hazards

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WASHINGTON -- Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Dr. David Michaels [testified] before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on the need for tools to enforce safe working conditions. Michaels [testified] on programs, enhancements and changes to strengthen workplace safety and OSHA’s ability to enforce the law.

The transcript of Dr. David Michaels April 27 2010, testimony can be downloaded here.

For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov and http://help.senate.gov.

Most of the presentation files for the Spring Meeting in New Orleans have been posted. All files should be available shortly.

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Read/download the March 2010 newsletter here.

The following GHS fact sheets were produced by SCHC-OSHA Alliance GHS Information Sheet Workgroup:

• Info Sheet #1: Pictograms
• Info Sheet #2: Flammable and Combustible Liquids
• Info Sheet #3: What is the GHS?
• Info Sheet #4: Labeling - OSHA vs. GHS

Get more GHS and SCHC-OSHA Alliance news and information here.

OSHA booklet outlines hexavalent chromium standards

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SOT and NLM Announce Availability of Online Toxicology Tutorial

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"Model for the Implementation of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS): Lessons Learned from Japan"

From the Journal of Occupational Health 2009; 51:526-530

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Download your copy in either MS Word form-based, or Acrobat PDF formats. Click Here.

How can industrial hygienists manage the far-reaching consequences of GHS and REACH?
By Robert Skoglund and Denese Deeds

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Download this advance notice of proposed rulemaking.

Download the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Also see the presentation files from the Fall, 2009 meeting.

Here are the links to the side-by-side comparison and redline versions of the NPRM that are now posted on OSHA's website.

The Globally Harmonized System for Hazard Communication

This may well be the biggest HazCom event in 25 years!

The Outreach and Communications Committee of SCHC has launched an Outreach Speakers Bureau on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).

Visit the speakers bureau page to learn more about the volunteer speakers dedicated to enhancing your awareness of the GHS.