Your Shaving Cream Could Be a Worker Hazard, Regulators Say

Warehouse operators must follow the same chemical safety rules as refineries when they store large quantities of boxes of aerosol cans containing consumer products, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration reiterated in a letter to a New Jersey safety consultant.

If the total weight of the flammable gases, such as butane and propane, in all the stored aerosol cans exceeded 10,000 pounds, then the process safety management rule’s trigger weight of 10,000 pounds applied, the agency said in a rule interpretation letter released last month.

The hazardous gases wouldn’t be in large tanks or bottles, but in thousands of aerosol ...