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By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Workplaces in Canada receive Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) for the hazardous products that they purchase and bring in for their workers to use. [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email HMIRA will be increasing their fees soon. The new fees will come into effect on April 1st. The summary of the fees can be found below. As in [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email In a presentation given by Health Canada to the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC) last month, we were advised that last year [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email One of the main areas my clients struggle with is what chemicals require disclosure in section 3 of a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) and how do we [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The most frequently asked question in my field is what is the GHS and what does it stand for? The GHS refers to the Globally Harmonized System [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email HMIRA announced their new fees for claims for exemption this week. The new fees came into effect on April 1st.  The application forms were [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The amendments to the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act (HMIRA) received Royal Assent on June 21, 2019, and came into force on March [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR) dictates what information must be available on a SDS within each prescribed section. The SDS is [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Two weeks ago at the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication (SCHC) conference in Washington DC, Kim Godard and Véronique Lalonde gave an [...]

By: Joe McCarthy, Lab Service Manager/Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email The Workplace Hazardous Materials Bureau (WHMB) has annouced the 2019 fee adjustment for HMIRA Claim for [...]