WHMIS Awareness
Working safely with hazardous products under WHMIS 2015: the GHS and the Hazardous Products Act and Regulations, physical and health hazard classes, pictograms and statements, supplier and workplace labels, the 16-section safety data sheet, exposure limits and controls, safe handling, storage and spills, and employer, supplier and worker duties.
HSE-102 12 lessons · 5 h 5 min
Offered by HSM University · Safety Training
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain the purpose of WHMIS, the right to know, and how labels, safety data sheets and worker education work together
- Describe the GHS and the WHMIS legal framework, including the Hazardous Products Act and Regulations and federal, provincial and territorial OHS rules
- Identify physical hazard classes and categories, including flammable liquids, gases under pressure, oxidizers, combustible dusts and asphyxiants
- Identify health hazard classes and categories, including acute toxicity, corrosion, sensitization, CMR hazards and target organ toxicity
- Interpret pictograms, signal words, hazard statements and precautionary statements, including precedence rules
- Read and evaluate supplier labels, including small container, laboratory and bulk shipment provisions
- Apply workplace labelling rules for decanted products, process equipment, products made on site and rating systems such as NFPA 704
- Describe the 16 sections of a safety data sheet and the requirements for keeping SDSs current and accessible
- Use safety data sheets to answer practical questions about hazards, protection, storage, first aid and safer alternatives
- Explain routes of entry, exposure limits, the hierarchy of controls, ventilation and chemical personal protective equipment
- Apply safe handling, transfer, storage, segregation, spill response, first aid and waste practices
- Describe supplier, employer, supervisor and worker duties and build a WHMIS program with education, training and inspections
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 5 min total · final exam
- 1 Why hazard communication matters 25 min · quiz
- 2 The GHS and the WHMIS legal framework 25 min · quiz
- 3 Physical hazard classes 28 min · quiz
- 4 Health hazard classes 26 min · quiz
- 5 Pictograms, signal words and hazard statements 26 min · quiz
- 6 Supplier labels 25 min · quiz
- 7 Workplace labels and other identifiers 25 min · quiz
- 8 Safety data sheets: the 16 sections 25 min · quiz
- 9 Reading an SDS in practice 25 min · quiz
- 10 Exposure, exposure limits and controls 25 min · quiz
- 11 Safe handling, storage, spills and emergencies 25 min · quiz
- 12 Roles, worker education and the WHMIS program 25 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Description
Working safely with hazardous products under WHMIS 2015: the GHS and the Hazardous Products Act and Regulations, physical and health hazard classes, pictograms and statements, supplier and workplace labels, the 16-section safety data sheet, exposure limits and controls, safe handling, storage and spills, and employer, supplier and worker duties.