A recognized or certified collective bargaining agent must be treated automatically as a designated representative without regard to written employee authorization. Employee means a worker who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals under normal operating conditions or in foreseeable emergencies. Workers such as office workers or bank tellers who encounter hazardous chemicals only in non-routine, isolated instances are not covered. Employer means a person engaged in a business where chemicals are either used, distributed, or are produced for use or distribution, including a contractor or subcontractor. Foreseeable emergency means any potential occurrence, such as, but not limited to, equipment failure, rupture of containers or failure of control equipment which could result in an uncontrolled release of a hazardous chemical into the workplace.
Hazardous chemical means any chemical which is a physical hazard or a health hazard.
Health hazard means a chemical for which there is statistically significant evidence based on at least one study conducted in accordance with established scientific principles that acute or chronic health effects may occur in exposed employees. Immediate use means that the hazardous chemical will be under the control of and used only by the person who transfers it from a labeled container and only within the work shift in which it is transferred. Label means any written, printed or graphic material, displayed on or affixed to containers of hazardous chemicals. Mixture means any combination of two or more chemicals if the combination is not, in whole or in part, the result of a chemical reaction. Produce means to manufacture, process, formulate or repackage.