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MelFallen 49, Female, Minnesota, USA - 8 entries

Mar 2013
3:53 AM CST

An Interesting Concept..

I've always been interested in going green. Being environementally friendly is very important, IMO. However, I never really thought about how this can be lost in translation. It's obviously no secrect that our industrial industries, especially when it comes to fuels, is in high cooperation with other countires. I was recently reading about Global Harmonization and it makes so much sense to me, I hope that this is something that can become commonplace within the very near future.

Global Harmonization is the practice of coming up with a universal system for knowing how to treat and handle chemicals. Not only is this important for environmental reasons, but for safety reasons as well. If employees cannot read the warning labels on products due to a lack of understanding the language they can't possibly know how to safely handle the product, which is a danger to both the employee and the environment if the chemicals aren't handled and disposed of properly.

The way to implement a Global Harmonization System� aka a GHS system is to raise awareness of the problem and the solution. I think if we can start small with these implementations i.e. putting them on common household liquids people will start to automatically learn this GHS language. There are many companies that deal with safety training programs and to get these companies to implement the GHS system we can slowly but surely achieve Global Harmonization in a few short years. Hopefully, a simple journal entry can be a microscopic step in this process

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