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Objectives for this talk
WHMIS to GHS,
or is it WHMIS 2015?
WHMIS
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Focus on employers but
Are you sure you are not a supplier
WHMIS to GHS classification & symbols
Timing
Label content
MSDSs to SDSs
Education vs. Training
Hazard assessments
INTRODUCTION
• WHMIS implemented in 1989
• Few changes since
• Suppliers
– Classify “Controlled Products”
– Label products
– Actively distribute MSDSs
• Employers measured more than suppliers
Why Change?
After many years of
discussion Canada has
aligned WHMIS with
GHS.
Health Canada's goal is
to have the updated
federal WHMIS laws in
force no later than June
2018.
GHS
Harmonization not Standardization
With an increase in international
trade harmonize
chemical hazard classification
and communication
worldwide.
GHS implementation will:
• Reduce confusion
• Ensure compliance
• Maintain the health and safety
of workers both here and abroad
• Global Harmonized System for
Classification and Labelling of
Chemical Compounds
• Harmonization not Standardization
• Many years many governments and
industries
• Nobody can relax a rule
How many have foreign SDSs?
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What Happens to WHMIS
Keep training on ‘old’ WHMIS style labels
and MSDSs until transition is complete.
Before GHS Classification Issue
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Acute toxicity classification by LD50
LD50 of 257 mg/kg body weight designation
Non-toxic in India
Hazardous in New Zealand
Moderately toxic in China
Harmful in EU, Australia, Thailand & Malaysia
Toxic in Canada, US, Japan, Korea
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CCOHS reference
GHS Classification Alignment
GHS Classification
• Evolution of rules lead to differences
• Combustible liquid in WHMIS has a
different flammable range than in TDG
• Classification temperature cut offs will
be harmonized between TDG, WHMIS,
Consumer Products
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Classification is more than
Symbols
GHS Symbols Physical
Building Block Approach
Physical Hazards
Health Hazards
Environmental Hazards
• 16 Physical Hazard Classes
– Explosives, Flammables, Oxidizers, etc.
• 10 Health Hazard Classes
– Acute, Chronic, Irritation, Repro, etc.
• 2 Environmental Hazard Classes
– Aquatic and Ozone
• Hazard Categories 1 through 5
– 1 being most severe
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GHS Symbols Physical
GHS Symbols Health Hazards
Suppliers WHMIS now and in
Future
Are you a Supplier?
• Suppliers for WHMIS are to:
– Classify “Controlled Products”
– Label products
– Actively distribute MSDSs
• Suppliers for GHS are to:
– Classify “Hazardous Products”
– Label products
– Actively distribute SDSs
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WHMIS Implementation
• Suppliers send SDSs & labels with
products
• Employers use this information to
ensure workers know how to use,
handle, store and dispose of chemicals.
Do you sell products?
Do you import products?
Do you resell products?
Do you mix products?
GHS is here
GHS has already been
implemented in the USA.
Worker training was to be
completed by Dec 2013
and all MSDSs needed to
be converted to SDSs by
June 2015.
With cross border trade
your workers are likely
seeing Labels and SDSs
already in the workplace.
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SAFETY DATA SHEETS (SDS)
How to Prepare
What is new?
• Standard 16 Sections
• Very structured order
• Hazard Statements
• Hazard Symbols
• Signal Words
• 3 year rule gone
What is not new?
• Bilingual
• Trade Secrets HMIRC
Continue with WHMIS compliance.
Start education and training about WHMIS to GHS
changes – WHMIS 2015.
Workplaces may already be receiving new GHS-compliant
labels and safety data sheets (SDSs).
Review chemical inventories and minimize unnecessary
chemicals in the workplace.
LABELS
Product Identifier
Signal Word
Hazard Statements
Hazard Symbols
Precautionary
Statements
• Acute hazards
• Supplier
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• Hatched border gone
• Bilingual kept
EDUCATION vs. TRAINING
Education
General information
Training
Work specific information
Examples of Topics
How WHMIS works.
How to find SDSs. How to store products.
Hazards of the products.
Procedures required for safe use, handling
and disposal of a hazardous product. What
precautions are required. PPE?
Training in emergency procedures in the
Understanding the new symbols.
event of an accident or spill.
The information you can find on SDSs and
Procedure to follow if the hazardous product
what that information means.
is present in the air and a worker may be
exposed.
The information on both the supplier label
and workplace label, and what that
information means.
Any other procedures required when the
product is in a pipe, piping system, vessel,
tank car, etc.
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Who Needs Training
Examples of job roles who require education and training
include workers who:
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May be exposed to a hazardous product due to their work
activities (including normal use, maintenance activities, or
emergencies).
Use, store, handle or dispose of a hazardous product.
Supervise or manage workers who may be exposed, or use,
store, handle or dispose of a hazardous product.
Are involved in emergency response.
Responsibility of the Employer
After GHS (typically provincial responsibility):
• Develop, Implement and Maintain a WHMIS 2015
education and training program.
• Review program annually or when conditions,
chemicals, or hazard information changes.
• Ensure workers know for products they use:
• Hazards of the products
• How to work safely with the products
• What to do in case of emergency
• Where to find more information.
Chemical Hazard Assessments
When should you train?
Employer must ensure hazard assessments done
Chemicals often overlooked in hazard assessments
Assessments must include how a product is used
Suppliers cannot predict your workplace conditions or all the
methods of use.
• Statements that protect the suppliers are on SDS
• Supervision must determine controls PPE or other.
• Goggles
• Gloves
• Respirator
• Eye wash
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Frequency of Education &
Training
Responsibility of the Worker
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• Employers are required to provide refresher
education and training:
• As needed to protect the workers.
• If conditions of the workplace have changed.
• If new products are introduced or changed.
• If new hazard information becomes available.
• With new information about safe use, handing,
storage or disposal.
MSDSs are being replaced with SDSs
SDSs will be the main information source
US SDSs are already arriving.
Have you been receiving SDSs?
At what point should you train on the new system?
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Wait to 100%
Participate in education and training.
Follow employer’s safe work procedures.
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Successful Training & Education
Workers should be able to answer these questions for
every hazardous product they work with:
1. What is this product?
2. What are the hazards?
3. How to work with the product safely?
4. What to do in an emergency?
5. Where is more information found?
Safety in Transition: Moving from
WHMIS to GHS
Who can provide training?
Training can be provided by
the employer or qualified
person or agency.
Employers remain legally
responsible to ensure the
protection of workers.
5 Fundamental Questions
1. What is this
product?
2. What are the
hazards?
3. How to work with
the product safely?
4. What to do in an
emergency?
5. Where is more
information found?
What is the product?
What are the hazards?
How to work with the product
safely?
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What to do in an
emergency?
Where is more information
found?
Training + Education
Use Training Aids
Chemscape Can Help
Summary
GHS or WHMIS 2015 is in implementation phase
Suppliers need to apply new classification to products
Suppliers need to rewrite MSDSs into SDSs
GHS SDSs are arriving now and to dominate by end of 2015
New hazard information is arriving which should induce
training on the new system.
• 5 Fundamental questions as training steps are conducive to
structure of new hazard information.
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Safety in Transition: Moving from WHMIS to GHS is authored
by Chemscape under the guidance of an Industrial Hygienist
who is certified with the American Board of Industrial
Hygiene.
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Questions
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Mike Phibbs CIH ROH
Chemscape Safety Technologies Inc.
Suite 207, 5920 1A Street SW
Calgary, AB T2H0G3
www.Chemscape.com
403-720-6737
• mphibbs@Chemscape.com
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