(a) Each public employer shall compile and maintain a workplace chemical list which shall contain the following information for each hazardous chemical normally used, generated, or stored in the workplace in an amount equal to or greater than fifty-five gallons (55 gals.) or five hundred pounds (500 lbs.):
(1) The chemical name or common name used on the material safety data sheet or the container label;
(2) The Chemical Abstracts Service number for such hazardous chemical if such number is included on the material safety data sheet; and
(3) The work area or workplace in which the hazardous chemical is normally used, generated, or stored.
(b) Each public employer shall file the workplace chemical list with the Director of the Department of Labor no later than ninety (90) days after July 1, 1991, and shall update the list as necessary, but in any case by July 1 of each subsequent year.
(c) A public employer may meet the requirements of this section with respect to a hazardous chemical which is a mixture either by identifying on the workplace chemical list each element or compound in the mixture which is a hazardous chemical or by identifying on the list the mixture itself. If more than one (1) mixture has the same element or compound, only one (1) listing of the element or compound is necessary.
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