These labs assuring quality control of the production process would not be covered under 1910.1450 but would be covered under other general industry standards including 29 CFR 1910.1200 . Such operations would only be considered quality control of production if the result of the monitoring is used as a source of information for process control adjustment. If making secondary standards is part of the quality control of a production process, the Laboratory Standard would not be applicable. If blending operations result in a product, they would be considered as production processes and not be within the scope of the Laboratory Standard. Chemical manipulation simply means the use of chemicals.
Production means an operation where a product is produced.
Examples of production facilities are refineries, utility- generating companies, manufacturing plants. Please note that in the previous directive, there was no reference to limited coverage of QC labs under HCS as you had inferred. We hope we have adequately addressed your concerns. If we can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. This hypermarked and content-enhanced page is copyright 2001 by ILPI , all rights reserved.