WHMIS

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Last week at the Virtual Fall meeting for the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC),  representatives from OSHA updated us on what [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email A more recent update is now available.  Last week at the Virtual Fall meeting for the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC), [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email I am noticing more and more that Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) coming from other countries into Canada are still referencing our older [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email When I send a Globally Harmonized System (GHS) Safety Data Sheet (SDS) draft to my clients, I often have questions surrounding the GHS Symbols [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Earlier this month, Health Canada advised that we will be moving from Version 5 to Version 7 of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) here in [...]

By: Kim Samela, Client Services Coordinator SDS, GHS, HAZMAT, WHMIS 2015. The regulatory world is full of acronyms and WHMIS is probably one of the most misspelled ones out there. It may also be, [...]

By: Sarah D’Mello B.SC.,SENIOR PRODUCT SAFETY SPECIALIST The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System or WHMIS, is Canada’s hazard communication standard for classifying [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager, Product Safety,  email Are you surprised by your new GHS classifications? Is your product being classified as hazardous but in the past was considered non-hazardous? [...]

Are you wondering if your US SDS meets Canadian standards? The short answer is no. While both countries have adopted the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), the US follows version 3 while Canada [...]