labels are industrial-grade labels designed to be
chemical resistant, tear resistant, abrasion resistant,
and constructed with a marine-grade adhesive that is
waterproof and passes a 90-day seawater submersion
adhesion test.
Using the company’s Design & Print Online Software,
available at www.avery.com/ghs, allows employees
to create, customize, and print their own hazardous
waste labels at their desk from pre-designed, EPA
compliant, templates. Most employees find such a
process intuitive, since it resembles creating an office
document from pre-designed templates.
Printed labels with handwritten (Accumulation
Start Date, EPA Waste Codes) or marked hazardous
properties (flammable, corrosive, toxic, reactive; along
with GHS pictograms) are also acceptable with the
Final Rule.
One example of this approach, are pre-printed write-
on Hazardous Waste Accumulation Labels by Avery
(available in October) that comply with EPA’s new
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Hazardous Waste Generator Improvement Rule.
The pre-printed labels allow easy selection of the
applicable GHS pictograms or hazardous properties
along with accumulation start data and content
composition.
These help to simplify proper labeling and are
compatible with ball point pens and permanent
markers.
The labels are waterproof and resistant to chemicals,
abrasion, tearing, UV, and their permanent adhesive
passes a 90-day salt-water immersion test.
Such labels can work for a variety of hazardous waste
generators including VSQG, SQG, LQG, as well as sub-
part K (Academic Laboratories).
[See example of a hand writable Avery Hazardous
Waste Label that complies with the new rule].
For more info, visit www.Avery.com/GHS •