First responders should become familiar with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) hazard classes for hazardous materials and the placards and labels used to identify those hazards. This ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (March 10, 2016) -- Sgt. 1st Class Arthur Bruton, Oklahoma City Military Entrance Processing Station guidance counselor, is set to retire in June with almost 21 years of service. He ...

Jan. 29—The Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standard is a set of guidelines produced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure the safety of ...

Building a Strong Hazard Communication Training Program An OSHA initiative means employers who use hazardous chemicals in the workplace should start preparing to update their hazard communication ...

One hopes the hazard classes will be provided. In extreme cases, the properties of the material may have to be used to establish the hazard class. If the information cannot be determined, the material ...

On May 20, 2024, OSHA published a significant revision to the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) in an effort to better align the HCS with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of ...

Of the three types of Hazardous Locations, Class III has the least stringent requirements. Fibers (and flyings) have a much larger particle size than dust (Class II) or gases (Class I). That makes ...

Chapter 5 of the 2011 National Electrical Code (NEC), which focuses on special occupancies, is made up of 28 Articles, all of which focus on electrical environments that are considerably more ...