WHMIS 2015
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What Is Confidential Business Information (CBI) Within WHMIS?
The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) is a Canadian hazard communication standard that requires employers to provide information about hazardous products used in the workplace to their employees. WHMIS has several requirements, including the identification of hazardous products, the provision of safety data sheets, and the use of cautionary labelling. One important aspect of […]... Learn more
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Why WHMIS Matters: The Importance of WHMIS Training
Employees spend an average of 40 hours a week in the workplace. Employers are responsible for ensuring that their work areas are safe from dangerous situations. Still, Canadian worker’s compensation boards reported an average of “924 workers died due to work-related causes in 2020. This report provides a jurisdictional comparison of work-related injury and fatality […]... Learn more
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All You Need to Know About Canada’s WHMIS
WHMIS stands for the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System. Canada’s requirements for hazard classification and communication for workplace chemicals (WHMIS) were updated in 2015 to include GHS, the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals. These requirements are now known as WHMIS 2015. After a transition period from WHMIS 1988 that ended on […]... Learn more
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Understanding The Cost of Workplace Injury: Why Training is Important
The last few years during and post-COVID-19 have been tough on the economy, especially on small businesses. Business owners are working with tighter budgets and are cutting or reducing many activities or programs that don’t directly benefit the bottom line. What to cut and what to keep? Undoubtedly, this is a tricky balancing act for […]... Learn more
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What Is The Difference Between WHMIS 2015 Vs HazCom 2012?
Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, or WHMIS, is a comprehensive plan for providing health and safety information on hazardous products for use, handling, or storage in Canadian workplaces. Canada’s Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR) regulate hazardous products in Canada, as well as WHMIS, its national hazard communication standard. Provincial or territorial government departments responsible for health […]... Learn more
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The Convenience Of WHMIS Online Training
The Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, or WHMIS, was updated in 2015 to adhere to the Globally Harmonized System of Classifications and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), developed by the United Nations. All workers in Canada engaged with hazardous products are required by law to have WHMIS training. It is compulsory to know how to handle […]... Learn more
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Webinar / Virtual Training: Safe & Convenient
As experts in the fields of Dangerous Goods, Hazardous Waste and WHMIS / GHS, Global Hazmat has years of experience helping businesses bring their workplace up to government standards and keeping employees safe. To make it as easy and convenient as possible for companies to train their teams, we offer Customized Webinar Training. If your […]... Learn more
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Canada has adopted GHS (WHMIS 2015)
Canada has adopted GHS (WHMIS 2015). What does this mean? On February 11, 2015, the Government of Canada officially passed the GHS (Globally Harmonized System) to better follow the internationally recognized standard for hazard classification and communication into WHMIS. Health Canada’s program, WHMIS 2015, will be a transitional process to conclude December 1, 2018. What is GHS?? GHS […]... Learn more