What is on the WHMIS workplace label? - ✔️✔️1. Name of product matching the SDS
Product name
2. Safe handling precautions
3. Reference to the availability of a safety data sheet (SDS)
What is on the WHMIS supplier label? - ✔️✔️1. Product Identifier
2. Initial Supplier Identifier
3. Pictogram(S)
4. Signal Word
5. Hazard Statement(S)
6. Precautionary Statement(S)
7. Supplemental Label Information
8. No border
What is included on a WHMIS label? - ✔️✔️- hazard symbols
- supplier label information
- information of SDS categories
- information on consumer symbols
- ✔️✔️Gases under pressure
- ✔️✔️Flammable, Self heating, emit flammable gases, pyrophoric gases, liquids and
solids organic peroxides
- ✔️✔️Oxidizing Gases, Liquids, and Solids
(Also an exclamation point with it) - ✔️✔️Acute Toxicity - Oral, Dermal, Inhalations
(Also an exclamation mark) - ✔️✔️Eye Irritation, Skin Irritation, Skin/Respiratory
Sensitization, Carcinogenicity, Mutagenicity, Reproductive Hazards
- ✔️✔️Biohazardous Infectious Material
- ✔️✔️Skin/eye corrosion, corrosive to metals
(Also the flammable sign) - ✔️✔️Self Reactive Substance Organic Peroxides
- ✔️✔️Explosive Substance (Exclusions still apply)
, - ✔️✔️Aspiration, STOT (Single Exposure, Repeated Exposure)
- ✔️✔️Eye and Skin Irritation Skin/Respiratory Sensitization Acute toxicity, Specific
Target Organ Toxicity, Hazardous to ozone layer
- ✔️✔️Dangerous for the Environment (may cause damage to the aquatic
environment)
What does WHMIS stand for? - ✔️✔️Workplace Hazardous Materials Information
System
What does WHMIS do? - ✔️✔️- a system in Canada used for classifying and labeling
hazardous workplace chemicals
Examples of SDS catagories - ✔️✔️1. Product Identification
2. Hazardous Identification
3. Composition/Information on Ingredients
4. First-aid measures
5. Accidental Release Measures
6. Fire fighting measures
7. Handling and storage
8. Exposure Controls/ personal protection
9. Physical and chemical properties
10. Stability and reactivity
11. Toxicology information
12. Ecological information
13. Ecological information
14. Transportation information
15. Regulatory information
16. Other infomation
Some examples of things that are not required to have an SDS - ✔️✔️1. Consumer
Products
2. Pest control products
3. Cosmetics, Drugs or Food Products
4. Wood or Products Made of Wood
5. Manufactured Articles
6. Tobacco products
7. Hazardous Wastes
Octogon - ✔️✔️Danger (Shape)
Diamond - ✔️✔️Warning (shape)