This two-day course is designed to provide experienced hazard communication professionals with information on the newly developed Globally Harmonized System.

Students attending this course will receive a copy of the third revised edition of the “Purple Book”.

The following aspects of GHS will be covered:

• Development history
• Harmonized classification criteria
• Requirements for the harmonized documents of hazard communication i.e., labeling and (M)SDSs.
• Status of GHS implementation around the world

This course covers the history of the Global Harmonized System and its resultant harmonized classification criteria and labeling and (M)SDS requirements.

• Day 1
• Introduction
• Challenges
• Focus
• History
• Globally Harmonized System
• Classification Criteria
• Physical
• Health
• Environment
• Substance Workshop
• Day 2
• Preparations / Mixtures
• Preparations / Mixtures Workshop
• Hazard Communication
• Labelling
• Safety Data Sheets
• Dangerous Goods Implementation
• Conclusion
• Status of GHS Implementation Around the World
• Implementation Strategies

This course is designed for people who have a working knowledge OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard or people who have completed ChemADVISOR’s Material Safety Data Sheet Authoring Course or ChemADVISOR’s International Hazard Communication Course.

• This course is worth 2.17 Industrial Hygiene CM Points
• 2008 (Approval #: 07-3692)
• 2009 (Approval #: 09-623)
• 2010 (Approval #: 10-448)
• This course has been pre-authorized for 0.79 CMPs toward recertification requirements for CHMMs.