A Chemical Hygiene Plan answers to a rule. OSHA’s Laboratory Standard requires one wherever employees use hazardous chemicals in a laboratory (OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1450(e)(1)), but federal OSHA does not cover state and local government, so whether a public school district, a state university or a state or city lab must have a plan depends on its state. For a company or a private school, the state decides which version of the rule applies. This course answers both questions for every state, the District of Columbia and the territories, with each state’s rule linked.
How the course works
- Six lessons, used as a reference. Read Lesson 1 first. Then find your state in Lesson 2 and open the lesson it points to.
- One row per state or territory. Each row names the rule that reaches a public employer’s staff, whether it copies the federal text or writes its own, and any school template or guidance the state publishes.
- Every row read from the state’s own source, and dated. Lesson 2 shows you how to check your row again each year.
- Where no rule reaches your school or organization, Lesson 6 shows how a school board, a university or an agency adopts the Laboratory Standard by policy.
- No quiz. This is a reference to come back to, not a test.
Who it is for
Chemical Hygiene Officers, laboratory managers and safety staff in education and in industry: school districts and private schools, colleges and universities, companies, hospitals and contract labs, and state and city agencies, in any state. If you are writing the plan itself, the course Write an Effective Chemical Hygiene Plan (Templates, Tips and Tricks) takes you through it step by step.
Module Content
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Module Includes
- 6 Lessons
- Module Certificate
