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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 The Canadian Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001, contains the regulations that we must follow when classifying a [...]

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 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 Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR) dictates what information must be available on a SDS within each prescribed section. The SDS is [...]

Hazardous Materials Information Review Act (HMIRA) Claim for Exemption on Safety Data Sheets (Trade Secret Registrations) & Fee increases By: Joe McCarthy, Lab Service Manager/Senior [...]