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Training Requirements

Purpose: Use this aid to learn more about the training requirements for employers.

Your employer is required to train you prior to assigning you to work with a potentially hazardous chemical, and whenever the hazard or chemical changes. Training may be done either by individual chemicals or by hazard categories. Training must include work area-specific information.

Training will include

• requirements of the Hazard Communication Standard
• details of your employer's written Hazard Communication Program
• location and availability of the written Hazard Communication Program, chemical inventories, and SDSs
• operations where hazardous chemicals are present
• methods of detecting hazardous chemical releases
• physical and health hazards of chemicals in the workplace
• methods to protect yourself using safe work practices, emergency procedures, and personal protective equipment (PPE)