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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) released a new standard for the preparation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) designed for a wider audience on Jun 3, 1993. The ANSI standard, Z400.1, provides guidelines for better organization and presentation of data, which is classified into 16 sections under four general categories. The categories are in question format and cover emergency information, hazard response and management, hazards prevention and additional useful information such as toxicological, ecological, disposal and transport information.

A printing company in Maryland recently purchased a fax-on-demand service for retrieving material safety data sheets (MSDS). The phones on the shop floor were all labeled with the 800 number [...]

The chairman of the Senate's OSHA oversight subcommittee, Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo., has joined FIGHT Project founder Ron Hayes in asking that OSHA increase the reliability and accessibility of material [...]

Following a rejection of challenges made by several industry organizations, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is moving forward with the implementation of a voluntary Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) [...]

Since 1983, companies in the United States that manufacture chemical products have been required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to use material safety data sheets (MSDS) to [...]

The Golden Gate Society for Coatings Technology's program theme for its annual manufacturing seminar was that manufacturing must be integral with regulatory-compliance considerations. Speakers at the forum have urged for the setting of ISO 9000, MSDS reviews and other standardized processes designed to help companies maintain safety, quality control, and open new markets. Most of these reforms may not be easily attained, taking years to implement. Others complained about taxing documentation procedures that limit their work and increased complaints from other workers on-site, who for the most part lack safety training., South San Francisco, Calif., July 21 -- Unlike church and state, there can be no separation of manufacturing operations and regulatory-compliance considerations. Maybe that's what the Golden Gate Society for [...]

With a recent government report on a fatal refinery explosion offering evidence of dangerous errors in material safety data sheets (MSDSs) and a 1995 OSHA-funded study suggesting that key information [...]

Members of the National Paint and Coatings Assn (NPCA) and other trade industries expressed their opposition to the approval of a new standard for Mateial Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on Jun 3, 1993. NPCA claims that the expanded standard contains a great amount of information that will confuse the user of the MSDS. Furthermore, the standard is not applicable to paint and coating products. The NPCA filed an appeal to reverse ANSI's decision on Jun 24, 1993., St. Louis, Nov. 11 -- The National Paint and Coatings Association and several other industry groups were unsuccessful in an attempt to derail the development of a new, expanded standard [...]