Migna Safety Solutions

General Industry · Self-Paced · about 55 min total

Hazard Communication (HazCom / GHS)

Intermediate · Course MIG-GI-204

Labels, pictograms, and safety data sheets under 29 CFR 1910.1200 — the right-to-know training nearly every workplace requires.

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This is a Migna Safety Solutions course with a Migna certificate of completion. It is not OSHA Outreach Training and does not include a Department of Labor card.

Hazard Communication is OSHA's most-cited standard year after year. This course teaches workers to read GHS container labels and all nine pictograms, navigate the 16-section safety data sheet, understand the written HazCom program and the chemical inventory, label secondary containers correctly, handle multi-employer and non-routine situations, and exercise the access and training rights the standard creates. Includes the 2024 update to the standard and what changed. Issues a Migna certificate of completion with a publicly verifiable certificate number.

What you are buying

36 min
Enforced seat time
2
Modules
11
Lessons
3
Interactive exercises
34
Quiz questions

Seat time is enforced on our servers. The clock is calculated from signed progress events rather than in your browser, so it cannot be sped up — a certificate that states 36 minutes of training means it. The 54 minutes shown above is that gate plus the quizzes and final exam, which are not on the clock.

This certificate does not expire on a clock

The standard behind this course sets no fixed retraining interval, so we do not print one. Retraining is triggered by events instead — a new hazard, a changed process, or an observed deficiency. Your employer or insurer may set their own interval, which is a real obligation but not a federal one.

Written against 12 published standards

Every citation below appears in the course content and is checked against the current text of the rule before publication.

  • 1910.120(q)
  • 1910.1200(e)
  • 1910.1200(e)(1)(ii)
  • 1910.1200(e)(2)
  • 1910.1200(f)(1)
  • 1910.1200(f)(6)
  • 1910.1200(f)(8)
  • 1910.1200(h)
  • 1910.1450
  • 29 CFR 1910.1020
  • 29 CFR 1910.1200
  • ANSI/ASME A13.1

What You Will Be Able To Do

The course is built to reach these, and the quizzes are written to confirm them.

  • State the employer's obligations under the Hazard Communication Standard and what the written program must contain
  • Interpret a GHS label: identify the product identifier, signal word, pictograms, hazard statements and precautionary statements
  • Locate specific information in a Safety Data Sheet by section number, including first aid, handling and exposure controls
  • Describe the labeling required for secondary and portable containers, and state when the portable-container exemption applies

What's Covered

  1. Module 1: The Standard, the Program & Labels

    • How HazCom Works and What Your Employer Owes You
    • Reading Labels and the Nine Pictograms

  2. Module 2: Safety Data Sheets, Containers & Special Situations

    • Navigating the 16-section SDS
    • Secondary Containers, Non-Routine Tasks, and Where HazCom Breaks Down