A worker on a job site finds a container of solvent with no label. Under the Hazard Communication Standard, what should the worker do?

Explanation

Section 5194(f)(6) requires each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace to be labelled, tagged or marked with the product identifier and with words, pictures or symbols giving general information about the hazards. An unlabelled container has failed that and nobody on site knows what is in it, so it goes out of use until it is identified. Option (a) misapplies the portable-container exemption at (f)(8), which covers a chemical transferred from a LABELLED container for the immediate use of the employee who performed the transfer, within that work shift - none of which is true of a drum standing in the yard. Option (b) picks an identity to fit a sheet, which is a guess dressed up as compliance. Option (d) writes a category rather than a product identifier and carries no hazard warning at all.