Hundreds - if not thousands - of family-owned plants, farmers' cooperatives and corporate fertilizer businesses in rural America overlook or disregard laws meant to protect the public from potentially ...

Federal investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board and other agencies are still sifting through the debris in West, Texas, to determine why a fire in a fertilizer plant ignited an explosion of ...

Various types of chemicals can be harmful to your body through immediate or prolonged exposure, including common items in your home, school, or workplace. You might encounter a variety of chemical ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (July 15, 2019) - Every individual working with or near chemicals must understand the associated risks to avoid injuries. Failure to recognize a chemical hazard puts workers at risk ...

Under the old system, in which manufacturers developed their own labeling, chemical labels sometimes varied widely in the information provided. Figures 2.1 and 2.2 are labels for the same chemical. As ...

A Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for Hazard Classification and Labeling. It is an international, standardized approach to hazard communication. The introduction of this system ensures that chemical ...

Rickey Giddens turned off the ignition and climbed down from the cab of his tanker truck at the PeroxyChem plant in Pasadena on an overcast January afternoon. Dressed in a plastic protective suit, ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- With hurricane season underway, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is urging chemical and petroleum facilities nationwide to prepare for storms ...

Earlier this month, New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) added reactive chemicals to the list of extraordinarily hazardous substances that trigger risk management planning ...