GHS Label Requirements and Specific Symbol Rules
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email Something that came to my attention today that I thought I’d share is that there are the Specific Rules for Symbols under the [...]
GHS in Canada and the United States – What is the expectation for compliance?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email Over the last couple of months, there has been much talk about moving forward to Version 7 of the GHS for the United States and [...]
Corrosivity – Why do I have to ship as corrosive when my product label does not have a corrosive symbol?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email As I indicated in a blog earlier this month, products for sale in Canada have different regulations that are applicable depending on [...]
Aspiration Toxicity – Why am I seeing different classifications in Canada?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Principal Product Safety Consultant, email Products for sale in Canada have different regulations that are applicable depending on your intended audience, claims you want to [...]
GHS in the United States – Updated Information from OSHA
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Yesterday during the HCPA/ISSA Virtual event, we were given a presentation from OSHA on the status of the GHS. This presentation was similar [...]
GHS in Canada – What is the status?
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 [...]
What’s Happening with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) in The United States?
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), [...]
Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Expiry and Risk of Compliance
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 [...]
Combustible Dusts Criteria – What are the requirements on my SDS?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email It wasn’t up until recently that more of us became familiar with the GHS Category for combustible dust. This was not something we had to [...]
WHMIS 1988 Symbols and Controlled Products Regulations References – Why are we still seeing these on labels and SDSs?
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 [...]
