On Aug 12, 2026, at 3:54 PM, Mel Smith <melissafcsmith**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM> wrote:

All I can say is...THANK YOU!

Melissa Charlton-Smith

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On Tue, Aug 11, 2026, 9:41 AM Info <info**At_Symbol_Here**ilpi.com> wrote:

I assume many of you are aware I maintain the most comprehensive site for information on 29 CFR 1910.1200, the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, with over 800 pages of info that includes an FAQ, compliance materials, annotated + enhanced versions of every OSHA interpretation on the standard, a hyperglosssary, and the Safety Demystifier among other components. If you’ve been on my HazCom site before, you know that it leverages the power of hypertext to not only improve the readability, but to vastly improve understanding and comprehension. Virtually every reference to an outside site, a specific paragraph of any standard, or technical term is linked for instant comprehension.

And most of you are, no doubt, aware that the HazCom standard was updated in 2024 to incorporate elements of GHS 7 whereas the prior version (2012) was based on GHS 3.

What many of you may not know is that the 2024 standard is actually in a phase-in period that ends with full implementation on May 19, 2028. I had not tried to update our site’s HCS materials to reflect the new version until recently because OSHA did not release its official inspection guidance on the new standard until the end of this May.

I’m pleased to announce that after some painstaking work, Phase 1 of our implementation of the new materials is now live. The following updated resources are now available from https://www.ilpi.com/msds/osha/index.html :

1. The complete new HCS 2024 standard and its appendices. If you want some fun, compare OSHA’s version of Appendix A: 

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1200AppA to ours (not only enhanced, but we improved the graphics, too):  https://www.ilpi.com/msds/osha/1910_1200_APP_A.html 

2. A red-line strikeout version of the old and new standard so you can see at a glance what was added and what was deleted between the two versions: https://www.ilpi.com/msds/osha/HCS2012/2012_2024_comparison.html  This joins the historical archive of the same comparison between HCS 1994 and HCS 2012: https://www.ilpi.com/msds/osha/preGHS/1994_2012_comparison.html 

3. The real meat of the work is at https://www.ilpi.com/msds/osha/cpl0202079.html which is the complete Inspection Procedures for the 2024 Hazard Communication Standard, CPL 02-02-079, which is the OSHA inspector’s playbook on what to look for during an inspection and when to issue citations. The OSHA version of this at https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/directives/CPL-02-02-079_0.pdf is a mind-numbing 132 pages of mostly plain text with some minimal hyperlinks. If you want to get an idea of just how useful our version is in comparison, I suggest looking at a selected passage in both versions. 

And, of course, we archived the previous version of the CPL 02-02-079 for historical purposes at https://www.ilpi.com/msds/osha/HCS2012/cpl0202079.html 

To be clear just how intensely integrated these resources are, our version of the HCS has 321 internal anchors so you can link directly to any section such as (f)(12)(iv) with a specific hyperlink such as https://www.ilpi.com/msds/osha/1910_1200.html#1910.1200(f)(12)(iv), it has links to 46 external sites (34 of them unique) and 575 local links to definitions, interpretations etc.  And the CPL is even more enhanced - there are 518 internal anchors, 148 external links (85 unique), and 1,381 local links. And that’s just the two main documents without their respective appendices which add hundreds more.

The next phase of these updates will be an incremental review of items affected by the changes in HCS 2024 with updates to the HyperGlossary and FAQ as needed. That will be an ongoing process, after which the archived OSHA interpretations will be reviewed for relevance under the new Standard and guidance. 

Enjoy!

Rob Toreki

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