Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 008 Hazard:

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.) a. At the work site located, employees used chemicals that included (but were not limited to) denatonium Benzoate, anhydrous Butylated Hydroxy Toluene, Butylated Hydroxytoluene, dipropylene glycol n-propyl ether (Dowanol), Dipropylene glycol methyl ether acetate, and proprietary mixtures of colors and scents to produce air fresheners. The employer did not have safety data sheets available to employees at the work site and was unable to produce all safety data sheets when requested to do so.