Section 13 – Discrimination Against Employees Exercising Rights Under This Chapter; Complaint; Investigation; Hearing; Review
Section 13. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged or otherwise discipline or in any manner discriminate against any employee for the reason that such person has exercised any right, made any claim or filed any complaint or suit or has instituted, or caused to be instituted, any proceeding under this chapter, or […]
Section 14 – Records; Examination; Copying
Section 14. Employers subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be required to maintain as records for a period of thirty years only the MSDS’s required by section eleven. Such records shall be made available within a reasonable period of time to each former employee, or his designated representative for examination and copying.
Section 15 – Instruction on Nature and Effects of Toxic or Hazardous Substances to Employees
Section 15. Employers shall furnish employees with instruction on the nature and effects of those hazardous substances present in the workplace either in written form or in training programs as may be appropriate. Such instruction shall be in nontechnical language but may be generic to the extent appropriate and related to the job. Such instruction […]
Section 16 – Material Safety Data Sheets; Filing Copies
Section 16. Every employer subject to the provisions of this chapter shall file with the regional office of DEP for the region in which the workplace of the employer is located, and upon request with the municipal coordinator for the city or town in which the workplace of the employer is located, a copy of […]
Section 17 – Material Safety Data Sheets; Requests for Copies
Section 17. The commissioner of DEP shall make a copy of an MSDS available to DOL or DPH upon request, and may make a copy of an MSDS available to any other agency of the commonwealth, but only upon written request including a justification by the requesting agency that the information contained in the MSDS […]
Section 18 – Endangerment of Public Health or Safety; Investigation; Findings; Review
Section 18. (a) A community resident in a city or town in which an employer subject to the provisions of this chapter is located, who has reason to believe that the utilization of a toxic or hazardous substance in the workplace by the employer is or may be endangering public health or safety, may file […]
Section 19 – Material Safety Data Sheets; Release to Municipal Officials
Section 19. A municipal coordinator who has obtained an MSDS from an employer pursuant to section sixteen may make available to another municipal official for the city or town in which the workplace of the employer is located, a copy of an MSDS, if he determines that an imminent threat to public health or safety […]
Section 20 – Material Safety Data Sheets, Release to Treating Physician; Confidentiality Agreement
Section 20. (a) A preparer shall provide an MSDS without trade secret information immediately on a confidential basis to a community resident’s treating physician who states in writing that said resident’s medical condition may be the result of exposure to a toxic or hazardous substance present in the said employer’s workplace; provided, however that such […]
Section 21 – Disclosure of Information; Public Record; Penalties
Section 21. (a) Any information provided to state or local agencies or instrumentalities by manufacturers and employers pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and any information provided to their public agencies or coordinator pursuant to this chapter shall not be a public record for the purposes of chapter sixty-six of the General Laws. (b) […]
Section 7 – Containers; Labels
Section 7. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, an employer shall label with the chemical name each container in his or her workplace containing a toxic or hazardous substance. Said label shall also contain the proper NFPA Code applicable to any contents of the container for which an NFPA Code has been published […]