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HAZCHEM Alert: assessing health risks to your workers

WALTER INGLES | January 17, 2019 | 188 views

Trying to identify and assess how hazardous chemicals could impact the health of your workers can initially seem daunting, so we’ve put together a three-step method to get you started. This blog will help you prepare a chemical hazard profile to determine the potential exposure of your workers to hazardous substances. Use it as the base of a chemical risk assessment and a tool for flagging individual workgroups (or work areas) for chemical exposure testing and control measures.

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