CCCR Vs. GHS Symbols. Is there a difference?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Canadians companies for many years have had to deal with the different requirements for consumer versus workplace. The symbols have always [...]
Do You Have All Your Ducks in a Row?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email When I say, do you have all your ducks in a row I am asking: Do you know where you plan to sell your product. Do you know your claims? Do you [...]
GHS Moving to Version 7 in Canada – What can we expect?
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 [...]
Regulations Amending the Hazardous Products Regulations (GHS, Seventh Revised Edition) in Canada
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 [...]
Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Requirements for Canada and the United States – Are You Required to Update Your SDS?
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 [...]
Full Compliance with the GHS (Globally Harmonized System)
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 [...]
WHMIS. How many symbols do I really need?
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). [...]
Are European Safety Data Sheets Permitted for Use Within Canada
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Many of my international clients would like one safety data sheet (SDS) created for the world. Unfortunately at this point in time, this is [...]
Hazardous Substance Assessments (HSAs). Can we expect more to come?
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Last year at the Society for Chemical Hazard Classification (SCHC) conference in Washington DC, Kim Godard and Véronique Lalonde of Health [...]
GHS Implementation Throughout the World
By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email GHS stands for the Globally Harmonized System and as I’ve repeatedly advised, it is anything but harmonized. Over the past year or so I’ve [...]
