what do whmis supplier labels have?
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The supplier label must include the following information: Product identifier – the brand name, chemical name, common name, generic name or trade name of the hazardous product. Initial supplier identifier – the name, address and telephone number of either the Canadian manufacturer or the Canadian importer*.
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WHMIS 2015 applies to two major groups of hazards: physical, and health. Each hazard group includes hazard classes that have specific hazardous properties. – Physical hazards group: based on the physical or chemical properties of the product - such as flammability, reactivity, or corrosivity to metals.
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There are three kinds of WHMIS labels: supplier, workplace and laboratory labels. Workplace labels are not required to have a distinctive border. They are a simpler version of the supplier label and produced in the workplace.
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In Ontario, WHMIS requirements are in: The Occupational Health and Safety Act ( OHSA ) generally requires employers to ensure hazardous products are identified, to obtain safety data sheets and make them available in the workplace and to provide instruction and training to workers.
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The Alberta Health & Safety Code requires that employers provide WHMIS training to all workers who work with or who are in proximity to controlled products. WHMIS has been revised to align with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), an international set of standards for managing hazardous materials.
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Education and training under WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System) can be thought of as two separate parts. Education refers to the instruction of workers in general information such as how WHMIS works and the hazards of controlled products.
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Hazardous materials not covered under WHMIS are: consumer restricted products such as those products sold to people in regular stores in consumer-sized packaging, and that are already labelled (following the rules of the Hazardous Products Act) ... pest control products such as pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, etc.
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The newly revised HCS outlines eight specific GHS pictograms for use on labels. Each is surrounded by a red border and designed to convey the health and physical hazards of chemicals. A ninth, environmental pictogram may be required by other agencies, but not by OSHA.
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The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS; French: Système d'information sur les matières dangereuses utilisées au travail, SIMDUT) is Canada's national workplace hazard communication standard.
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Hazardous materials covered by WHMIS are referred to as “controlled products”, and are grouped in categories of materials called “classes”.
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WHMIS is Canada's national hazard communication system for hazardous products in the workplace. ... The WHMIS requirements are set out in both federal legislation and federal, provincial, territorial (FPT) occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation. In Alberta, these requirements are found in Part 29 of the OHS Code.
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In Canada, hazardous products are regulated by Canada's Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR), and Canada's national hazard communication standard, the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS). ... In the USA, hazardous products are regulated by OSHA and its Hazard Communication Standard or HazCom 2012.
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Labels, as defined in the HCS, are an appropriate group of written, printed or graphic informational elements concerning a hazardous chemical that are affixed to, printed on, or attached to the immediate container of a hazardous chemical, or to the outside packaging.
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The Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) (29 CFR 1910.1200(g)), revised in 2012, requires that the chemical manufacturer, distributor, or importer provide Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) (formerly MSDSs or Material Safety Data Sheets) for each hazardous chemical to downstream users to communicate information on these hazards.
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British Columbia. ... WHMIS requirements in British Columbia outline employer responsibilities for a WHMIS program which requires labels and SDSs (formerly MSDSs), as well as worker education and training. The current regulations have been in force since 1988.
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There are two main types of WHMIS labels: supplier labels and workplace labels. ... Supplier labels may be bilingual (as one label) or available as two labels (one in English, and one in French). • The pictogram(s), signal word, and hazard statement(s) must be grouped together.
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Where will I find the pictograms? Pictograms will be on the product supplier labels of the hazardous products you work with. They will also be on the SDSs (as the symbol or words that describe the symbol).