Section 325.51169. Signs and labels.

(1) An employer shall post and maintain legible signs demarcating regulated areas and entrances or access ways to regulated areas that bear the following legend:

(2)   Prior to June 1, 2016, an employer may use the following legend in lieu of that specified in subrule (1) of this rule:

DANGER ETHYLENE OXIDE

CANCER HAZARD AND REPRODUCTIVE HAZARD AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY

RESPIRATORS AND PROTECTIVE CLOTHING MAY BE REQUIRED TO BE WORN IN THIS AREA

(3)   The employer shall ensure that labels are affixed to all containers of EtO whose contents are capable of causing employee exposure at or above the action level or whose contents may reasonably be foreseen to cause employee exposure above the excursion limit, and shall ensure that the labels remain affixed when the containers of EtO leave the workplace. For the purposes of this subrule; reaction vessels, storage tanks, and pipes or piping systems are not considered to be containers.

(4)    Prior to June 1, 2015, an employer may include the following information on containers of EtO in lieu of the labeling requirements in subrule (1) of this rule:

(a) DANGER

CONTAINS ETHYLENE OXIDE

CANCER    HAZARD    AND     REPRODUCTIVE HAZARD

(b) A warning statement against breathing airborne concentrations of EtO.

(5)    The labeling requirements of this rule do not apply where EtO is used as a pesticide, as such term is defined in the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §136 et seq., when it is labeled pursuant to that act and regulations issued under the act by the environmental protection agency.

History: 1988 AACS; 2015 AACS.