Understanding OSHA’s 2024 Revised Hazard Communication Standard Webinar Recording

Earn 2 Contact Hours

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Join us to explore OSHA’s 2024 Revised Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) and the critical role OEHS professionals play in ensuring compliance and workplace safety. As the bridge between regulatory mandates and on-the-ground safety practices, OEHS professionals ensure that workers are informed about chemical hazards through clear communication, thorough training, and compliance oversight.

In 2024, OSHA introduced significant updates to the HCS, aimed at improving the clarity and quality of chemical labels and Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) to enhance the safety of workers and first responders during chemical emergencies.

Learn about the practical implications of these changes for OEHS professionals, including enhanced approaches to hazard identification, developing robust communication plans, training employees, and ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance under the new requirements.

Learning Objectives

After this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Review the 2024 updates to the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, including alignment with GHS Revision 7.
• Identify necessary changes and updates for workplace hazard communication programs to ensure compliance with the revised HCS.
• Discuss new hazard classifications introduced in the revised HCS and their implications for workplace safety programs.
• Identify how effective hazard communication improves workplace safety and health, and explore strategies for enhancing hazard communication.

Presenters

Denese A. Deeds, CIH, FAIHA, SDSRP
Denese Deeds is co-founder of IHSC, LLC, where she is the Director of Chemical Regulatory Services. In that function she prepares SDS, labels and other hazard communication documents and assists companies with overall chemical regulatory compliance. Prior to founding IHSC she worked as an industrial hygienist for General Electric and Westinghouse. Denese is a Certified Industrial Hygienist. Denese is active on the AIHA Stewardship and Sustainability Committee and served on the team that developed the SDS and Label Author Registry. She is an AIHA Fellow, a past president of the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC), a Registered Specialist SDS and Label Authoring, the 2014 recipient of the AIHA Alice Hamilton Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award by SCHC in 2016. She currently serves as a delegate to the GHS Subcommittee of Experts on the GHS for DGAC.

Chandra D. Gioiello, MS, CIH, SDSRP
Chandra Deeds Gioiello has a Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology from Franklin and Marshall College and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Hygiene from University of New Haven. She is vice president of IHSC, LLC, a small consulting firm that focuses on international regulatory compliance and SDS and label authoring. Chandra is a registered Safety Data Sheet and Label Author and a Certified Industrial Hygienist. Her focus in on international chemical regulations including GHS adoption, labeling, and chemical control laws. She regularly helps clients navigate the regulations across the globe, especially the Asia-Pacific countries. She is active with the American Industrial Hygiene Association and helped create the SDS and Label Author registry for AIHA. She served on the Board of Directors of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) from 2016-2019. She previously served as the chair of the SCHC Social Media Committee and spearheaded their social media expansion. She is currently the chair of the SCHC Member Engagement Committee and Past-President of the Connecticut River Valley chapter of AIHA. She is the 2024 recipient of the AIHA Fellows SIG Outstanding Midcareer Professional Award.