Compliance manuals should be readily available to inspectors, auditors, and employees. The manual serves as a place for storing safety data sheets, inventories, documentation that training has been conducted, information on internal procedures, and additional items that verify compliance with regulations. The table below provides some guidance on what to include in a compliance manual.
Useful Links for All Spaces
Critical Emergency Shutdown Procedures
Link for Laboratories
Compliance manuals in laboratories are replaced by lab-specific laboratory safety plans, which compliment the UMN Chemical Hygiene Plan.
Links for Non-Laboratory Spaces
The below links provide useful information and templates for the creation of a compliance manual.
What should be in this manual?
Emergency Preparedness Informational Sheet
Standard Operating Procedure Hazard Assessment Template
Particularly Hazardous Substance List
Chemicals and SDS Informational Sheet