Assessing and Analyzing the Workplace for Chemical Hazards
There's a simple four-step process for assessing and analyzing the workplace for chemical hazards:
- Assess the workplace to see which hazardous chemicals are currently being used. Do this by conducting a walk around inspection and checking records.
- Use the results of your assessment to create a list of hazardous chemicals.
- With chemical list in hand, obtain a SDS for each chemical in preparation for the next step.
- With each SDS, analyze the hazards presented by each chemical in the workplace. The SDS is your primary tool to determine the physical and health hazards, routes of entry, toxicity, and other information about each chemical in your workplace.
Once you identify and know the nature of the hazards of each chemical, it becomes important to control those hazards by eliminating or reducing those hazards using a systematic approach.
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2-7. When assessing and analyzing the workplace for chemical hazards, what do you do with the results of the walkaround inspection and records check?
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