WHMIS - Labels

Canada has introduced dangerous goods of the workplace information system (WHMIS) according to the global level (GHS) on the classification and display of chemical substances.

This book takes into account the requirements of WMIS suppliers regulated by the Federal Law (Dangerous material law and dangerous goods rules (HPR)). This book reflects the requirements of the dangerous and harmful products as of December 15, 2022. The amendment in December 2022 is valid. Supplier is given a thre e-year migration period (until December 15, 2025) to adjust the manufacturing classification, security passport, and labels.

Most jobs have the most prominent impact of the change of the fire gas class and the new class of the pressurized chemical substance. The Canadian Ministry of Health is a government agency under the jurisdiction of WHMIS's general law about suppliers. Note that WHMIS regulates the state, quas i-state, and federal governments (in the case of federal regulations) in accordance with their respective hygiene and occupational safety laws. These jurisdiction areas are based on their own WHMIS rules as a common model, but there may be small differences depending on the jurisdiction area.

Supplier and employer need to use the WHMIS requirements of labels and security passports (SDS) to comply with dangerous products sold to Canada.

In this document, we will examine the WHMIS requirements for suppliers and employment labels.

Please refer to the following OSH-answers documents to get the information:

• WHMI S-General information
• Space} WHMIS --Con
• WHMI S-Class and Danger Category
• WHMI S-Safety Passport (SDS)
• WHMI S-Education and training
• WHMIS --WMIS program
• WHMIS is a glossary
• WHMIS - Confidential information (CBI)
• WHMI S-Malfunction
• WHMI S-Laboratory

What products require a WHMIS label?

The Canadian WHMIS method is required to meet the classification standards for dangerous products for products used in the workplace.

The label first warns the main dangers related to this product, and explains the main precautions or safety measures.

Who is responsible for labelling?

In most cases, suppliers require labels to no n-safe products to supply customers. Note: The label must be read, written, or attached to a no n-safe product or container. The transfer of a label corresponding to the WHMIS claim does not detect the claim along with the cost of the documents.

The user needs to mark an important product in the work space and prepare and attach labels to the work space as needed.

Are there different types of labels?

There are two types of WHMIS labels: supplier label and work space label.

Safe suppliers must put labels suitable for insistence on no n-secure product regulations. If an important product is used every time in a container with a supplier label, there is no need for another label.

In the following cases, labeling the work space is required:

• Space} Dangerous products are exported (manufactured) in the workspace and are used in this workspace,
• Space} When a dangerous product is decented into another container (transfer or shine), or
• Supplier labels are stuck or cannot be read (cannot be read).

If there is no label in the workspace, there are two stories. For important products

• If it is poured into the capacity and is used immediately, or
• When "under the management of a decanted person". For example, if a person who decented the product to another container becomes a person who applies it, and the product is used for one exchange, the absolute label of the workspace is not required. I have it. However, it is necessary to display the personal number (name) of the product in the container.

If the product is not used immediately, or if the product management is realized by a different person, the absolute label in the workspace cannot be separated. Guarantees a special standard for labeling of containers beyond the request of WHMIS.

However, it is regulated by the states or the jurisdiction of the states where the workspace is located, where the workpace is actually labeled. To get additional information, contact your jurisdiction area.

What information is required on a supplier label?

The supplier label must be both Canadian official language (English and French). The supplier label may be displayed in two languages ​​(1 language) or two languages ​​(English is English, one language is French). Even if the supplier label is written only in English or French sentences, it cannot be used.

Supplier labels are required to maintain appropriate information:

1. Product Personal Number is the trademark, chemical name, serial name, generic name or trade name of the unsafe product.
2. First Supplier Personal Number - Title, address, telephone equipment number of the Canadian manufacturer or Canadian importer*.
3. Icon (pictogram) is a reddish "square on a dot" threat sign.
4. space} Signal Text is text intended to indicate a degree of thoroughness without informing the reader that a threat is highly likely.
5. space} Threat statement (i) is a standardized tirade that describes the nature of the threat that poses a critical product.
6. Warning statement (IE) (i) is a standardized tirade that describes the action to be taken to minimize or prevent less favorable consequences of an unsafe product or inappropriate high effects, or to salvage an unsafe product.
7. Additional information on the label - Depending on the product's organization, additional information may be required on the label. For example, the label of a preparation containing 1% or less of an unknown toxic component must be accompanied by an approval letter indicating the percentage of the unknown toxic component. Every opportunity remains on the label to retain auxiliary information on precautions, hazards, physiological conditions or methods of effect not already included in the SG. These pieces of information are not required to be excluded or excluded from the standardized information.

* Supplier's first personal number - There are two exceptions to this requirement:

• If, in the history, the critical product is sold by a distributor, the distributor has the option to change the title, address and phone number of the first supplier to their own personal contact information.
• Historically, if an importer imports a critical product for use in their own workspace in Canada (i. e., the importer does not sell the critical product), they have the option to preserve the title, address and phone number of the foreign supplier and not replace them with personal contact information.

What is a signal word?

Warning text is a hint that warns of the degree or level of threat of the product. There are only two types of warning text: "Danger" and "Warning". "Danger" is used for the highest threat and "Warning" for the least dangerous threat. If a threat class and category is assigned to the signal statement, this must be provided on the label and included in section 2 (Identification of the hazards) of the Security Passport (SDS).

Some threats and categories have not assigned a signal text.

What is a hazard statement?

Each class and category of threats correspond to the "threat declaration". A threat application is a shor t-standardized proposal that reports a specific threat to a product. The statement is short, but it has an overview of a more serious threat to the product.

An example of a threat declaration is considered:

• Space｝ Extremely burned gas.
• It may expand when heated.
• Space} Inhalation is fatally dangerous.
• Space} Gives uncomfortable eyes.
• It can cause cancer.

The phrase of a threat application helps exceed the level of threats. For example, "the possibility of cancer" is not safer than "the suspect, it can actually cause cancer."

What is a precautionary statement?

The warnings include advice on how to minimize or prevent the effects of no n-secure products, as well as inappropriate savings and appeal methods. These statements have all the possibilities to connect to a savings, introduction, providing one support, a note on the application of personal defense and emergency measures. As in the case of intimidation, the wording of alerts is also standardized and unified.

There are 5 types of warriors:

• Ordinary
• caveat
• Including first aid
• keep
• availability.

Example of a warning sentence:

• Seal the container.
• Wear protected gloves / protective clothing / protective glasses / protection.
• If you are shocking or anxiety: Receive a doctor's consultation/ help.
• Extinguish the fire in a remote place because of the risk of explosion.
• Please protect from sunlight.

The warning follows the degree of threats related to the product.

What does it mean if I see "/" or "…" on the label for my product?

The use of slope function (/) or dots (.) Is regarded as an annotation for suppliers and is definitely useful for creating labels and SDS.

For example, GHS leadership provides an appropriate warning sentence to "wear protective gloves, protective clothing, eye protective equipment, and face protective equipment."

The diagonal line (/) means that the supplier is obliged to display the image of a jointly formed device based on the unique knowledge of the product and how to use it. Therefore, for example, this sentence has the ability to see the road in the future:

• How to wear protective gloves and protect your eyes.

• Put on protective gloves.

• Wear protected gloves, protective clothing, protective glasses, and protective aspects.

Another example: "No grind/Shock/Friction/...". In this case, the supplier is obliged to show the relevant event (grind, hit, friction) of the bold appeal in the footprint to be ignored, and the dot (.) means that the supplier is actually obliged to show the other form of the bold appeal in the footprint to be mentioned.

What does a supplier label look like?

There is no fixed format for the supplier's label. As already mentioned, the label must be in British and French. It can be bilingual (one label format) or it can be two labels (one in English and one in French).

The label must be kept correctly:

• Icons, signal text and threat news should be displayed together,
• clear and in a prominent place on the container,
• space}just easy to read (e. g. easy to see in almost any way except with corrective glasses), and
• contrast with other information on the product or container.

An example of a bilingual label is shown below:

It effectively pays that the shared frame, which was inextricably linked to WHMIS1988, is no longer necessary. However, it is not prohibited to apply the shared frame, so it can be seen on the WHMIS fluid label.

When will a supplier label have to be updated?

If "significant new data" for the supplier becomes widespread, the label must be updated. According to the regulations, the definition of significant new data is correct:

"New threat data submitted from an unsafe product that changes the codification in one class of threat category or subcategory, or that leads to codification in another threat class, or that changes the defense method of the imagined unsafe product" (Source: Appeal Criteria in Unsafe Products, Chapter 5, Section 12 (1))

The label must be updated in the direction of 180 days later, as the supplier recognized the fresh infa. If the product was purchased during this 180-day period, the supplier must provide a document with the necessary configuration on the label and the date on which the new data became widespread.

If the user receives information about new significant data from the supplier, he must apply it and update all correct labels from the supplier.

What information will be required on a workplace label?

As a general rule, workspace labels should have the correct information:

• space} Product name (matches the product name in the SDS).
• space} Product name (matches the product title in the SDS) Warnings with non-subtle appeal may have a pictogram or other information attached to the supplier's label.
• Link to the SDS (if available).

The request for labeling in the workspace is for the Canadian Labor Law if you work in the jurisdiction of your state or the proliferation, or if you work in the workpace regulated by federal law. See clear requests in your jurisdiction.

Are there any other differences in labels allowed?

In some case s-Yes. The WHMIS label has symbols, signs, stamps, stickers, printed materials, tickets, tags, or wrapper options. It can also be pasted on important products and containers, printing, and applying stencils and tissenen. Workers should be trained in what other systems are used in the workspace, and what to grasp.

Supplier label variations are used in such a specific atmosphere:

• Space} Burning carg o-There are exceptions to the display rules for products sold without packaging.
• 100ml or mor e-There are only no need for warning or important inscriptions to labels.
• 3ml or mor e-If the label hinders the normal use of the product, the product is very consumed during transportation and preserving, but it is required to have a label that has the ability to abolish it during use. 。

If the product has little space to meet the claims of no n-secure products, the introduction of a folding or accordion type label is allowed. Please note the following points:

• Space} The required Pict Grams, Warnings, and Threaten (I) are compiled on the label,
• The space} label must be stuck in a prominent space on the surface that is noticeable in the normal operation standard.
• The space} label is applied to the product or container in the normal transportation / pasting standard, and it is required to continue to be read.

How should hazardous products packaged in multiple containers be labelled?

If an important product is wrapped in a certain number of containers, each container (eg, an external container, internal container, or if it is applied) must have a complete number. There are two exceptions that are likely to be used:

1. The external container does not specify a timise label if the label of the internal container is noticeable and the external container has passed the normal storage and occupancy standard.
2. The external container has a label that conforms to the claims stipulated in the rules for transporting no n-safe cargo transportation. It is important to note that this external container is not used when the external container is considered a single container.

In fact, be aware that there are possibility of used and other exceptions, such as a small (100 ml or less) container (100 ml or less or the same).

As a worker, what should I do when using a hazardous product?

• Be sure to check if the product has a label before implementation.
• Read, understand and follow the instructions on the label and SDS. Follow all additional instructions, guidance and training provided by your employer.
• Contact your own leader if you have any questions about how to apply or protect the product.
• Request a new label if the expired label is not visible or the affirmative is not readable.
• Do not use products that are unlabeled or have illegible labels. Support your own leader (e. g., change of label).

• Information Bulletin, Latest Edition: 2023-03-21

Disclaimer

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