Dear Safety Manager,

The present Hazard Communication Program—especially Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)—fails to adequately protect health in the workplace. MSDSs are complex, difficult to comprehend, and contain some information irrelevant to the average worker. It is therefore extremely taxing for an employer or worker to determine how to use a product safely with an adequate degree of confidence, or whether to use it at all.

Not only are MSDSs hard to understand, but they are often inaccurate and misleading, potentially allowing unsafe levels of worker exposure–health hazards and liabilities to your company that are entirely preventable. This is an unacceptable failing, which Product Awareness Consulting is committed to help correct.

PAC’s comprehensive program assists managers like yourself, and your workers, in the prevention of OSHA fines, ill health, workers’ compensation costs, lost wages, and reduced productivity. We do this by educating users of MSDSs, organizing your HazCom program, and providing hazard ratings and health-effects reports for all your chemical products.

Our HazCom training is a 3-hour session that focuses on (1) what HazCom is and how it’s done at your facility; (2) the products being used and their associated MSDSs; (3) what workers need to know to protect their health and pass an OSHA inspection; and (4) how to read container labels. The training provides the skills necessary to read and understand any MSDS, and the confidence to work among potential hazards identified by container labels and other markings.

PAC’s program will provide your staff and employees with interpretive skills and information that will help ensure the safe and productive handling of the chemical products you use.

Please contact me to find out how your company will benefit from PAC’s program, and how we can work as partners in protecting health in the workplace.

Sincerely,

Cathy Verrét, President
Product Awareness Consulting, LLC