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Regulatory and Compliance: What Is Planned for 2024, and How to Stay Ahead of Changes

In a January 2024 regulatory and compliance webinar, Veronica Marrero, the Director of Professional Services in Regulatory Operations at TotalSDS, explored the latest regulatory requirements in four major jurisdictions: Canada, the EU, Brazil, and China.  Marrero and the key speaker, Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist Rennee Karlik, covered the most pressing…
Hawk SEM
06/18/24
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Cultivating Safety: Best Practices for Hazard Communication and SDS Management in Agriculture

In the bustling world of agriculture, safety isn't just a priority—it's a necessity. From the vast fields to buzzing barns, ensuring the well-being of workers is paramount. However, with the myriad of hazards present in agricultural settings, navigating safety regulations can be daunting. That's where effective hazard communication and SDS…
Hawk SEM
06/12/24
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Compounding and Manufacturing Hand Sanitizer During COVID-19

By Veronica Marrero, Regulatory Compliance Specialist If you are like many of our customers, you may be trying to navigate a new world of manufacturing hand sanitizers or other disinfectant products. Many businesses can modify day-to-day operations to produce these in demand products such as breweries, distilleries, coatings manufacturers and…
Alex Milan
04/22/20
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Hazardous Compliance Explained: Hazardous Building Codes

We’ve taken a look at the responsibilities associated with hazardous chemicals (OSHA), hazardous materials (DOT) and hazardous substances (EPA), however, it is easy to overlook how the presence of hazards can affect aspects of your workplace. Thus far, the compliance we’ve discussed provides regulation from the perspective of the materials,…
Alex Milan
08/07/18
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Hazardous Compliance Explained: Shippers & Offerors

OSHA places the responsibility for communicating hazards with the entity that is responsible for the product – manufacturer, distributor or importer – essentially, whoever is identified on the SDS. The EPA then states that whoever generates the waste is responsible for its proper disposal. And the Department of Transportation is…
Alex Milan
04/25/18
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Hazardous Compliance Explained: Environmental vs. Transportation

Hopefully, the previous post in this series gave you a better understanding of responsibility for safety data sheets and chemical labeling. Whenever questions arise about a product’s chemistry, instinct tells us to examine its SDS. However, as discussed previously, there is an inherent problem in the reliability of some of…
Alex Milan
03/26/18
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Hazardous Compliance Explained: Understanding Responsibility

Previously, we discussed what hazardous means, clarifying that each agency involved has its own term. And while the criteria for the classification of such terms – hazardous chemical (OSHA), hazardous material (PHMSA), and hazardous substance (EPA) – may overlap, they do also differ, and these agencies and others reference these…
Alex Milan
02/26/18