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 2 – Administrative Responsibilities; Rules and Regulations; Promulgation
Section 2. The responsibility for administering the provisions of this chapter, and for assuring an appropriate state response to alleged violations thereof, shall be assigned in the following manner: (a) The commissioner of DPH shall be responsible for the administration of sections four through six, twelve and twenty, which relate to the establishment and amendment […]
Section 3 – Violations; Investigations; Notice; Findings; Elimination of Violations; Orders; Review; Penalties
Section 3. (a) If any of the commissioners with responsibilities under this chapter have cause to believe that an employer or manufacturer has wrongfully failed to comply with any provision of this chapter for which that commissioner has been delegated responsibility, that commissioner may, within one hundred and twenty days of the alleged violation or […]
Section 4 – Substance List; Amendment Procedures; Concentration Requirements for Toxic or Hazardous Substances; Dissemination of Information
Section 4. (a) For the purpose of this chapter, the commissioner of DPH shall establish the Massachusetts substance list and make said list available to manufacturers, employers, municipal coordinators, and the commissioners of DOL and DEP. Substances on the list may be designated by their chemical name or common name(s), and CAS number. Only those […]
Section 5 – Material Safety Data Sheets; Trade Secret Claims; Disclosure
Section 5. The preparer of an MSDS may omit from the MSDS the chemical name, common name, or CAS number if the release of said information which would disclose a trade secret as defined by this chapter. The preparer shall provide all other information on the properties and effects of the hazardous substance required for […]
Section 6 – Research Laboratories; Exemption
Section 6. A research laboratory, as defined in section one, shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. In order to qualify a work area of a workplace or a workplace as a research laboratory, an employer shall file a sworn statement with the commissioner of DPH which shall include sufficient information pertaining to […]