An employee transfers a hazardous cleaning solvent from its original labeled drum into a portable spray bottle for use during the same shift. Under HazCom, the spray bottle:
Explanation
Section 5194(f)(8) exempts a portable container into which a hazardous chemical is transferred from a labelled container, where it is intended only for the immediate use of the employee who performs the transfer, within that work shift. Every limb carries weight. Option (d) keeps the first limb only - the source was labelled - and would let the bottle be handed to a second worker or left for the next shift, which is exactly what the exemption does not reach. Option (b) ignores the exemption altogether. Option (c) invents a halfway position the standard does not offer: a workplace container outside the exemption needs the product identifier AND words, pictures or symbols conveying the hazards, under (f)(6).
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