WHMIS COMPLETE EXAMINATION TEST
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● GHS
Answer: Is an international initiative to standardize chemical hazard
classification and communication globally
-helps harmonize hazard communication systems worldwide and
provides set of guidelines for ensuring the safe production, transport,
handling, use and disposal of hazardous materials
●● Whmis is a national hazard communication system that
Answer: Provides information on the safe use of hazardous materials in
Canadian workplaces GHS doesn't replace WHMIS
●● WHMIS Will be modified to incorporate the GHS elements with
standardized
Answer: Chemical classification rules
Label requirements
Safety data sheets (SDS) format (formally MSDS)
●● The GHS has more detailed and comprehensive criteria which results
in expanded hazard categories and improved communication of hazards
to workers. The resulting harmonization is expected to
,Answer: Maintain/enhance worker protection while reducing barriers to
trade among countries
●● The GHS consists of two subcommittees: the subcommittee of
experts on the transportation of dangerous goods and the subcommittee
of experts on the globally harmonized. These subcommittees handle the
technical aspects of the GHS and ensure that:
Answer: -hazard classification is based on intrinsic properties of the
substances and mixtures
-all types of chemicals covered
-all stakeholders are involved
●● What is the GHS expected to do
Answer: Identify hazards found in substances and mixtures and
communicate hazard information about these hazards. To achieve this
the criteria for hazard classification or match to the hazard statements,
symbols, and signal words have been standardize to form an integrated
hazard communication system
●● Integrated hazard communication system by the GHS
Answer: -GHS labels are the main communication tool for consumers
-GHS is similar to existing transport requirements where containers will
be marked with pictograms that address acute toxicity, physical hazards,
and environmental hazards. However, signal words in hazard statements
requirement haven't been adopted by the transportation sector
,-all GHS elements are to be adopted in the workplaces, including
harmonized labels, safety data sheets, and employee training
●● Well WHMIS 2015 includesNew harmonize criteria for hazard
classification and requirements for labels and safety data sheets,
Answer: The roles and responsibilities for suppliers employers and
workers have not changed
●● Old WHMIS was formed in
Answer: 1988 and amended in 2015
●● There are several pieces of legislation involved in WHMIS.
Generally, federal legislation requires suppliers of hazardous materials to
disclose hazard information to
Answer: The end-users and defines the materials that are controlled
under WHMIS. Provincial legislation focusses on the requirements of
WHMIS in the workplace
●● The Canadian federal government has aligned the workplace
hazardous materials information system with the globally harmonized
system of classification and labelling of chemicals and revamped the
hazardous products act. New hazardous products regulation HPR is now
enforced
Federal changes include
Answer: -hazardous products act has been amended
, -New hazardous products regulation has been established
-former parts of legislation such as controlled products regulation,
hazardous materials information review act and ingredient disclosure list
have a need revoked
●● Provincial changes include
Answer: -Amended occupational health and safety act
-amended Ontario WHMIS regulation 860
●● From 2015 to 2018 a transition period from old WHMIS to WHMIS
2015 GHS took place
Answer: The 2015 legislation is currently in force which means that
suppliers may begin to use and follow the new requirements for label
and safety data sheets for hazardous product sold, distributed, or
imported into Canada
●● As with the old WHMI ass the WHMIS 2015 have a three key ways
in which information on hazardous materials is communicated. The
supplier of the hazardous material provides the labels and safety data
sheets to the employer. The employer passes the information on to the
worker and provides education programs
LABELS:
Answer: Labels under WHMIS 2015 have a few new requirements
however the main principle of the label remains the same as it is under
old WHMIS to alert workers to the hazards of the materials within
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● GHS
Answer: Is an international initiative to standardize chemical hazard
classification and communication globally
-helps harmonize hazard communication systems worldwide and
provides set of guidelines for ensuring the safe production, transport,
handling, use and disposal of hazardous materials
●● Whmis is a national hazard communication system that
Answer: Provides information on the safe use of hazardous materials in
Canadian workplaces GHS doesn't replace WHMIS
●● WHMIS Will be modified to incorporate the GHS elements with
standardized
Answer: Chemical classification rules
Label requirements
Safety data sheets (SDS) format (formally MSDS)
●● The GHS has more detailed and comprehensive criteria which results
in expanded hazard categories and improved communication of hazards
to workers. The resulting harmonization is expected to
,Answer: Maintain/enhance worker protection while reducing barriers to
trade among countries
●● The GHS consists of two subcommittees: the subcommittee of
experts on the transportation of dangerous goods and the subcommittee
of experts on the globally harmonized. These subcommittees handle the
technical aspects of the GHS and ensure that:
Answer: -hazard classification is based on intrinsic properties of the
substances and mixtures
-all types of chemicals covered
-all stakeholders are involved
●● What is the GHS expected to do
Answer: Identify hazards found in substances and mixtures and
communicate hazard information about these hazards. To achieve this
the criteria for hazard classification or match to the hazard statements,
symbols, and signal words have been standardize to form an integrated
hazard communication system
●● Integrated hazard communication system by the GHS
Answer: -GHS labels are the main communication tool for consumers
-GHS is similar to existing transport requirements where containers will
be marked with pictograms that address acute toxicity, physical hazards,
and environmental hazards. However, signal words in hazard statements
requirement haven't been adopted by the transportation sector
,-all GHS elements are to be adopted in the workplaces, including
harmonized labels, safety data sheets, and employee training
●● Well WHMIS 2015 includesNew harmonize criteria for hazard
classification and requirements for labels and safety data sheets,
Answer: The roles and responsibilities for suppliers employers and
workers have not changed
●● Old WHMIS was formed in
Answer: 1988 and amended in 2015
●● There are several pieces of legislation involved in WHMIS.
Generally, federal legislation requires suppliers of hazardous materials to
disclose hazard information to
Answer: The end-users and defines the materials that are controlled
under WHMIS. Provincial legislation focusses on the requirements of
WHMIS in the workplace
●● The Canadian federal government has aligned the workplace
hazardous materials information system with the globally harmonized
system of classification and labelling of chemicals and revamped the
hazardous products act. New hazardous products regulation HPR is now
enforced
Federal changes include
Answer: -hazardous products act has been amended
, -New hazardous products regulation has been established
-former parts of legislation such as controlled products regulation,
hazardous materials information review act and ingredient disclosure list
have a need revoked
●● Provincial changes include
Answer: -Amended occupational health and safety act
-amended Ontario WHMIS regulation 860
●● From 2015 to 2018 a transition period from old WHMIS to WHMIS
2015 GHS took place
Answer: The 2015 legislation is currently in force which means that
suppliers may begin to use and follow the new requirements for label
and safety data sheets for hazardous product sold, distributed, or
imported into Canada
●● As with the old WHMI ass the WHMIS 2015 have a three key ways
in which information on hazardous materials is communicated. The
supplier of the hazardous material provides the labels and safety data
sheets to the employer. The employer passes the information on to the
worker and provides education programs
LABELS:
Answer: Labels under WHMIS 2015 have a few new requirements
however the main principle of the label remains the same as it is under
old WHMIS to alert workers to the hazards of the materials within
