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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 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 Spring is coming and with that, farmers and homeowners alike are getting ready to battle pests. As the ground starts to thaw, the pests start [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email On February 5, 2021, OSHA released a statement regarding the US Department of Labor’s OSHA issues proposed rule to update the hazard [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email On January 22, 2020, Health Canada advised that they have performed assessments on five chemicals on the Hazardous Substance Assessments [...]

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 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 Canadian companies for many years have had to deal with the different requirements for consumer versus workplace. The symbols have always been [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]