Text For Citation: 02 Item/Group: 001 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. On or about June 7, 2024, and at times prior, the employer did not ensure that the required safety data sheets (SDSs) for the hazardous chemicals utilized for cleaning and housekeeping work that were maintained electronically were immediately accessible to employees in that only supervisors had access and employees had to request a specific SDS with management.