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Title: 01/30/1997 - Material Safety Data Sheets. | |
Record Type: Interpretation | Standard Number: 1910.1200 |
January 30, 1997
Mr. Jason Scriven
Government Affairs
3E Company
4920 Carroll Canyon Road
San Diego, California 92121
Dear Mr. Scriven:
We have received the inquiries you directed to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Assistant Regional Administrators, regarding your company's system for providing businesses with access to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) required by OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). The following is submitted in response. For the purpose of clarity, I have paraphrased your questions to address the system you described.
Paragraph (g)(8) of the HCS was modified on February 9, 1994, to indicate that "electronic access, microfiche, and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the material safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access...are created by such options." The employer (chemical recipient) would have to be agreeable to this type of system and would have to have access to the necessary technology. Additionally, the manufacturer would need to ensure that an alternative means of providing the MSDSs was available in the event of a system failure.
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Sincerely,
John B. Miles, Jr., Director
Directorate of Compliance Programs
The official, public domain, OSHA version of this document is available at http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=INTERPRETATIONS&p_id=22340&p_text_version=FALSE