Course Overview
Advanced (M)SDS Authoring Topics is designed to provide experienced hazard communication professionals with information on topics relevant to effective hazard communication. The workshop portion of this course provides useful exercises for real world challenges in the hazard communication world. For this one-day course, attendees are expected to have a working knowledge of at least the US Hazard Communication requirements. Participants are encouraged to bring hazard communication “problems” for instructor led class discussion.
Course Agenda
- Barriers to Effective Communication
- Government Compliance Assistance
- Other Useful Compliance Resources
- Dealing with Trade Secrets in the US, Canada and Europe
- Legal Status of an MSDS
- Effectively Working with Business Managers
- Emerging Issues
- Nanotechnology
- Control Banding
- REACH
- GHS Implementation Status and Its Impact on Hazard Communication
- Workshop
- Reviewing a supplier MSDS for compliance
- Conversion of a US compliant MSDS to an EU compliant MSDS and vica-versa
- Preparing an MSDS for a non-hazardous product, article, biological, etc.
- Dealing with trade secrets on supplier MSDSs
- Preparing an MSDS for a complex formula with minimal to no product and/or toxicology data