WHMIS Notes

your 3 rights:
- right to know
- right to refuse work
- right to participate

what is a WHMIS label?
- to identify the product
- tells you about the risk
- gives you information about safe handling

Types:
- supplier labels
- workplace labels

Supplier labels:
- product identification
- hazard symbols
- border
- risk, phrases and precautions
- first aid, supplier information
- safe handling precautions
- reference to MSDS
- must be in 2 artificial languages

National Fire Protection Agency:
- blue indicates a health hazard
- yellow indicates reactivity
- red indicates flammability
numbers:
0- no hazard
1- slight hazard
2- moderate hazard
3- serious hazard
4- severe hazard

Class A: Compressed Gas
Class B: Flammable and combustible material
Class C: Oxidizing material
Class D1: Poisonous and infectious materials
Class D2: Poisonous and infectious materials - toxic
Class D3: Poisonous and infectious materials - biohazardous
Class E: Corrosive material
Class F: Dangerously reactive material