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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 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 Back in February, I advised that the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) released a statement regarding the US Department of [...]

By: Joe McCarthy, Lab Service Manager/Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist, email The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has updated its list of alternative test methods or [...]

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 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 This is a question we receive quite often and in the 21 years that I have been doing ‘WHMIS’ for my clients. I find that it is one of the most [...]

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 [...]

By: Kirsten Alcock, Manager of Product Safety, email This is a question we hear quite often from our Ontario clients – do I need to update my SDS if it’s older than three years? Under the older [...]