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"As we begin to re-open our businesses in the wake of the first wave of the pandemic, workers all over the world are spending much of their days using disinfectants to clean countless surfaces. This represents a much higher exposure..."

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Employers’ Obligations To Be Informed About Chemical Health Hazards

By: Lisa Hallsworth

13 October 2020

Originally Published: 29 October 2017 As with all the hazards in the workplace, employers are responsible for protecting workers from chemical health hazards. Since these hazards are often undetectable by the human body, most employers must rely on Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) safety data sheets (SDSs) from suppliers to give the best information …

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The Challenge With Managing Designated Substances

By: Lisa Hallsworth

8 October 2020

Originally posted 28 October 2018 One of the most frequent and erroneous statements we hear from clients is that they do not have designated substances in their chemical collections. I thought the same about products used in my own home until I looked a bit closer at some of the ingredients contained in some infrequently …

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Tips for disinfecting and a bit about hypochlorous acid

By: Lisa Hallsworth

1 October 2020

Though the risk of transmission of COVID-19 through touching surfaces is not considered the main way the virus spreads by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it has not been ruled out. As a result, we must continue to eliminate common points of touch and regularly disinfect those that cannot be eliminated. Like you, …

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SDS RiskAssist version 4.0 gives you better decision-making tools!

By: Lisa Hallsworth

22 September 2020

Rillea Technologies has been working with a wide variety of organizations for 4 years in an effort to help them get value from their WHMIS collection of Safety Data Sheets. We started small with a limited number of clients and a focus on addressing their greatest needs – understanding chemical hazards in the workplace and …

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Case Study – How One Company Improved Chemical Safety

By: Rob Hallsworth

9 September 2020

Originally Published March 5, 2019 Imagine you are responsible for maintaining the paper copies of safety data sheets in a company with 150 people. This a soul sucking, thankless job that does not provide tangible benefits to anyone. It is hard to get motivated to start. But what if your efforts actually made your workplace …

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Digital Technology and Chemical Risk Management

By: Rob Hallsworth

9 September 2020

Originally Published February 26, 2019 Consider a process of chemical risk management that follows a basic framework, uses digital technology and puts clear simple results at your fingertips. The ACT Framework Assess the risks of your hazardous product collection by ensuring you have an accurate Inventory of products. Then for each product review all the …

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Simplify Chemical Risk Management

By: Rob Hallsworth

9 September 2020

Originally Published February 19, 2019 To overcome the obstacles to good chemical risk management we need to consider some different ideas on how we look at the information in WHMIS. Look at Hazards Not Products While there are millions of chemical products available in the market, there are only seventy-nine different hazards in the Globally …

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Obstacles to Chemical Risk Management

By: Rob Hallsworth

9 September 2020

Originally Published February 12, 2019 Implementing an effective chemical management system is difficult. Over a 3-year period we spoke with hundreds of people about workplace chemicals and identified 4 obstacles to improving chemical safety. The Bystander Effect The bystander effect says that in a group setting which calls for action to address a problem most …

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Is Chemical Risk Management Important?

By: Rob Hallsworth

9 September 2020

Originally Published February 5, 2019 Workplace chemicals pose a risk to people. If they did not, there would be no need to focus on Chemical Risk Management and current WHMIS related activities would be sufficient to maintain a safe and healthy work place. There are three reasons why organizations need to think about more than …

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Chemical Safety & Risk Management – It’s More Than WHMIS

By: Rob Hallsworth

9 September 2020

Originally Posted January 29, 2019 I was very fortunate to spend 22 years working in leadership roles with ExxonMobil where I learned a business can improve its overall performance by improving its chemical safety performance. Key Concepts to Improve Safety Performance: Understand people's needs. This is at the heart of an effective safety program. Pay …

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Chemical Smarts: Data-Driven Chemical Management News

By: Claire Hallsworth

29 July 2020

City of Quinte West Makes Clever Use of SDS RiskAssist During the Pandemic Shutdown "When the pandemic hit our area, the City closed all of its facilities but needed workers to be able to continue to provide a level of service to the area. We looked at our departments to see what we could do …

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Prevent Occupational Disease Using Your Company’s Own Data!

By: Lisa Hallsworth

28 July 2020

Data has long been the basis of good science. Remembering our earliest science experiments, until our hypotheses were confirmed by data, they were really just educated guesses. Workplace Data for Good Today, data is easier to gather than ever before and the challenge is how to effectively present and use it, for the greater good. …

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