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Suppliers had to ship HCS 2024 safety data sheets for substances by May 19. Employers now have until November 20, 2026 to reconcile them, fix in-house labels, rewrite the written program and retrain. Mixtures come later: suppliers in November 2027, plants in May 2028.
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