SDS: Safety Data Sheets

By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email One of the biggest non-compliances I continue to see when I receive supplier Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) is section 3 and the [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email To this day, I still see Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) that were written within the past couple of years referring to WHMIS 1988 [...]

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 On February 11, 2015, Health Canada published Part II of the Hazardous Products Regulations in the Canadian Gazette, which incorporated the [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Many of my clients would like one safety data sheet (SDS) created for the world. The thought is that the GHS (Globally Harmonized System) [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Advising clients when their SDS is three years old is part of our regular routine. We do this so you are reminded that the SDS may need [...]

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

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: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The Regulations Amending the Hazardous Products Regulations (GHS, Seventh Revised Edition) were published in the Canada Gazette, Part I on [...]