Materials Handling And Storage (SO2/AC2)

An employer must:

Ensure that an HCA that is used, handled or stored at the workplace is correctly labelled;

Ensure that a container labelled for an HCA is used for only the use, handling or storage of that HCA;

As far as is reasonably practicable, ensure that when an HCA is transferred or decanted at the workplace, from its original container into a destination container, the destination container is correctly labelled for that HCA; and

Ensure that an HCA within pipework is identified by a label or sign or in any other suitable manner, on or near the pipework, subject to the following:

• Where the product is a mixture of two or more HCAs, the intermediate or finished product name may be used for identification;
• Sampling, loading points or any other termination point of a pipe, where during normal operations an employee may be exposed to an HCA, must be identified; and
• Pipework, including the splitting of flanges, where an employee may be exposed during routine maintenance activities, should be identified as far as is reasonably practicable.

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