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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 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 determining the label for your product in Canada, you first need to determine where you want to sell it. Do you want to sell your product [...]

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 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 This is a new classification to Canada that came about with the adoption of the GHS in 2015.  It is not a category that existed under the old [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email One of the most popular questions I have from my clients refers to compliance. IS MY SDS AND LABEL COMPLIANT FOR CANADA? This happens quite [...]

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

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email This is a question we hear from the majority of my clients – do I need to update my SDS if it’s older than three years? Under the older [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email When we are working on a GHS WHMIS SDS for our clients, we provide an SDS that complies with the current HPR (Hazardous Products Regulations). [...]