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This course covers the following information:
GHS Container Labels: The Goals of Hazard Communication
- How the HAZCOM Standard ensures that employees are provided with the information they need in order to work with hazardous materials safely.
- The three main sources of information about HAZMATs under the Hazard Communication Standard.
- Why using multiple HAZMAT container labeling systems can actually increase the hazards of working with those materials.
GHS Container Labels: The Benefits of the GHS System
- How the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) enables people who work with HAZMATs to get information about them quickly and easily.
- How GHS container labels organize and present HAZMAT information.
- How GHS-compliant labels should be applied to HAZMAT containers under the HAZCOM Standard.
GHS Container Labels: GHS Pictograms
- Why the Globally Harmonized System uses images called "pictograms" to represent the hazards that are associated with different materials.
- The pictograms that are used in the GHS system.
- The types of hazards that are represented by GHS pictograms.
GHS Container Labels: Text Elements of GHS Labels
- How the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) standardizes and summarizes HAZMAT information in the text elements used on container labels.
- The names of the five text elements that are used by the GHS and where on a GHS-compliant container label they are likely to appear.
- The types of HAZMAT information that each of these text elements contains.