General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 111F Hazardous Substances Disclosure by Employers
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111F, Section 1
In this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Article”, a finished product or manufactured item: (1) which is formed to a specific...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative responsibilities; rules and regulations; promulgation - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations; investigations; notice; findings; elimination of violations; orders; review; penalties - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Substance list; amendment procedures; concentration requirements for toxic or hazardous substances; dissemination of information - Chapter 111F, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; trade secret claims; disclosure - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Research laboratories; exemption - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Containers; labels - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; preparation; revision - Chapter 111F, Section 8
The manufacturer of any toxic or hazardous substance shall prepare and provide direct purchasers of said toxic or hazardous substances with an MSDS which, to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; obligation to provide to purchaser - Chapter 111F, Section 9
(a) Any person subject to the provisions of section eight shall be relieved of the obligation to provide a specific purchaser of a toxic or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; mixtures - Chapter 111F, Section 10
A manufacturer or employer may provide the information required by section eight of this chapter on an entire mixture, instead of on each toxic or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; employers’ duties; employee’s right to examine - Chapter 111F, Section 11
(a) Every employer who manufactures, processes, uses or stores toxic or hazardous substances in the workplace shall provide a MSDS for each product which is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; examination by employee’s physician; disclosure of information - Chapter 111F, Section 12
An employer or the preparer of an MSDS shall provide said MSDS, including information withheld as a trade secret, immediately on a confidential basis to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Discrimination against employees exercising rights under this chapter; complaint; investigation; hearing; review - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Records; examination; copying - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Instruction on nature and effects of toxic or hazardous substances to employees - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; filing copies - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; requests for copies - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Endangerment of public health or safety; investigation; findings; review - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets; release to municipal officials - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Material safety data sheets, release to treating physician; confidentiality agreement - Chapter 111F, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disclosure of information; public record; penalties - Chapter 111F, 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...
Last modified: September 11, 2015