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By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email I wanted to remind you that your comments are due to both Health Canada and OSHA this week regarding the change to GHS Version 7.  It is [...]

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 Technical translation is the transcription of scientific text from one language to another with close attention paid to both the specialized [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email RISK! It’s a word that is thrown around in the world of compliance quite often. If I do this or don’t do this, what RISK am I taking? Is there [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email For those of you who have been following along, you’ll note that there are some important deadlines that have come and gone. There has been [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email I appear to be repeating myself these days. There is  yet ANOTHER extension in the regulatory realm. OSHA is extending their comments for [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email Back in February, I advised that the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) released a statement regarding the US Department of [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email The California Prop 65 list was updated in March 2021. There were two new chemicals added to the list. Should you be using these chemicals [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email GHS stands for the Globally Harmonized System and as I’ve advised in the past, it is not AT ALL harmonized globally. Different countries have [...]