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Equipment Design Safety

Hello Fellow Safety Pros, I have a general equipment design/implementation safety scenario to pose & a question about how to label or identify.

SCENARIO:
New equipment is being constructed that contains some highly hazardous elements fully contained within certain components. An assessment and controls for the construction of the equipment has been completed and it is unlikely (by design) that there would be any personnel exposure to the hazardous components post-construction or during commissioning (to operators of the equipment).

The assessment cannot guarantee that those servicing the equipment would not ever be exposed to (nor need to service) the components that contain the hazardous elements.

Another, not safety related but environmentally focused concern might be how to indicate the presence of the hazardous elements when the project is over and sent for disposal or scrapped?

Since these components are internal and there is no expectation that there will be exposure, is there a need to label or otherwise indicate their presence on the exterior of the equipment? If so, would you propose the inclusion of HazCom labeling or is there another standard that might be more refined, or elegant for a finished product?