Seems the US Supreme Court still has a sense of humor! LOL

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I read that shortly after reading this, this week:

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2012/03/20/ghs-rule-being-published-march-26.aspx

http://www.safety.com/articles/hazard-communication—-world-changing-we-know-it—ghs-here

It says they did this to SIMPLIFY the HazCom rules so that a 5th grade educated moron would understand the MSDS, and the hazards!!!!

ROTFLMAO!!!!! What were they thinking???? LOL!!!!
The 858-page final rule was years in the making. Key provisions in it include:

  • A specific hazard category for combustible dust, which is not in the HazCom Standard. Michaels said this does not change in how OSHA has addressed combustible dust hazards for 25 years; still, it is significant that combustible dust will now be a hazard category in the HCS.
  • ACGIH's non-mandatory Threshold Limit Values will be required to be referenced on safety data sheets (SDSs) just as the HCS currently requires them to be referenced on MSDSs. "We elected to include them [TLVs] because many OSHA PELs are quite out of date, and it's important to get the information out to employers so workers can protect themselves," Michaels said.
  • The effective date is Dec. 1, 2013, for employees to be trained on new GHS-compliant labels. Manufacturers and importers of chemicals as of June 1, 2015, must comply with the final rule, although some distributors can still ship products complying with the current HCS until Dec. 1, 2015, Michaels said. Full implementation is reached in 2016.
  • The proposed "unclassified hazards" category is included in the final rule, but it instead will be called "hazards not otherwise classified."
 
On Monday, Conyers said that after discussing the issue with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio) he voted for the health-care law because he saw it as a necessary "platform" for building toward a single-payer health-care system in the United States.

This is the same guy who laughed when asked if he'd read the bill and said he'd need two attorneys to even understand whats in the bill.
 
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