MSDS requirement
MSDS requirement
(OP)
On some of our products we give out a small can of touch up paint in an aerosol spray can. Are we required to give the customers an MSDS along with this? I get the MSDS from the manufaturer when it comes to us, but we do not give an MSDS when we pass it on to our customers?





RE: MSDS requirement
Have it available anyway.
I have MSDS sheets for hand soap in the restrooms and dishwasher soap in the lunchrooms. I occasionally, but rarely, have had a brand new, extremely zealous inspector come through.
Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com
Good engineering starts with a Grainger Catalog.
RE: MSDS requirement
RE: MSDS requirement
RE: MSDS requirement
I doubt you really even need an MSDS for something like that.
Its really only for non-consumer type chemicals that employees encounter in their daily job that might be hazardous.
RE: MSDS requirement
RE: MSDS requirement
Basically if you can buy it at your local hardware/grocery store a MSDS on file is not required.
RE: MSDS requirement
RE: MSDS requirement
RE: MSDS requirement
Any consumer product or hazardous substance, as those terms are defined in the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2051 et seq.) and Federal Hazardous Substances Act (15 U.S.C. 1261 et seq.) respectively, where the employer can show that it is used in the workplace for the purpose intended by the chemical manufacturer or importer of the product, and the use results in a duration and frequency of exposure which is not greater than the range of exposures that could reasonably be experienced by consumers when used for the purpose intended;
That is what OSHA states. So i keep MSDS for janitorial products because janitorial staff are exposed to those household products at a greater amount than what is intended for the typical consumer. So i keep them all on file.
RE: MSDS requirement
I have used WD-40 to "jump" an engine into starting or shoot a potato about 100 yards!!
RE: MSDS requirement
Once spent a half hour discussing guarding on a precision wire cutter with an inspector. Then he walked past a WW II era drop hammer that repeatedly dropped a 200# weight from 4 feet. It had zero guards. Just an open chamber. He looked at it and just walked on.
Tom
Thomas J. Walz
Carbide Processors, Inc.
www.carbideprocessors.com
Good engineering starts with a Grainger Catalog.