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 The GHS stands for the Globally Harmonized System and as I’ve advised in the past, it is not AT ALL harmonized globally. Different countries [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email I wanted to remind you that your comments are due to both Health Canada and OSHA this week regarding the change to GHS Version 7.  It is [...]

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 Back in February, I advised that the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) released a statement regarding the US Department of [...]

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: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email On February 11,  2015, Health Canada published Part II of the Hazardous Products Regulations in the Canadian Gazette, which incorporated the [...]