Recent updates to the federal OSHA Hazard Communication Standard are bringing the US into alignment with the system used throughout the world to further enhance worker protection from hazards posed by working with chemicals. The new standard is referred to as the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS), and is intended to bring workers past the “Right to Know” about the products they work with to the “Right to Understand” the dangers of working with chemicals.
