Bottle #1 – WRONG; “not windex” is not a label and to top it off, look at pic #2. Sure looks like Windex and it was being used like Windex, because it was Windex! All joking aside, these types of UNSAFE labeling practices are what lead to those bizarre incidents that show up in the Incident Alerts at least 3-4 times each year of people ingesting hazardous chemicals.
From an OSHA Compliance perspective there are those who would argue that “window cleaner” is “exempt” from HAZCOM because of
1910.1200(b)(6)(ix) Any consumer product or hazardous substance, as those terms are defined in the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2051 et seq.) and Federal Hazardous Substances Act (15 U.S.C. 1261 et seq.) respectively, where the employer can show that it is used in the workplace for the purpose intended by the chemical manufacturer or importer of the product, and the use results in a duration and frequency of exposure which is not greater than the range of exposures that could reasonably be experienced by consumers when used for the purpose intended;
I personally would write this up! One – it is not in its originally labeled container, two – that size of container is not a size of a residential window cleaner (i.e. homeowners do not by windex by the gallons!), and three – using a “water bottle” that is clearly labeled “water” to hold anything but water is just downright “asking for it”. Especially now a days when we have all these flavored additives we can put in our water that change the color of water. I can absolutely see someone seeing this bottle of water (without the spray assemble) and drinking it thinking it was a “berry flavored” water. You’da thunk it (meant to sound that way) that the user would have at least labeled the water bottle “not water”!
