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Safety Data Sheets Require Updating. Here are Some Helpful Tips.
- Rob Hallsworth
- 15 November 2021
- 4:11 pm
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Updating your collection of Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) is time consuming, never ending and of limited value – like Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill in Greek mythology. Why is it so Hard? A supplier is only required to provide you with an SDS when you make a purchase. This impacts you in three …
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Workers Must Understand WHMIS Labelling not Classification
- Rob Hallsworth
- 13 September 2021
- 11:32 am
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WHMIS exists to protect workers from hazardous chemicals. It is based on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals commonly referred to as GHS. GHS focuses on 2 items: Classification – the arrangement of hazards into groups based on specific criteria Labelling – the use of symbols and descriptions of the hazards based …
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SDS RiskAssist Earns Top Choice 4 Years Running!
- Lisa Hallsworth
- 30 June 2021
- 7:02 am
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If you could PREVENT cancer, would you?
- Lisa Hallsworth
- 1 March 2021
- 5:47 pm
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Breast cancer prevention – From fundraising to research to workplace action
- Lisa Hallsworth
- 20 January 2021
- 3:14 pm
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Fundraising – a personal story In 1991, after watching one sister-in-law die of breast cancer and another diagnosed, my Mom, Brenda White, decided she needed to do something to raise awareness about the disease. From rural Nova Scotia, as president of the local Catholic Women’s League (CWL), she chose to lead with her voice. She …
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Hazardous Materials – 10 Things You Don’t Know (But You Should)
- Rob Hallsworth
- 2 December 2020
- 3:25 pm
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Using digital technology, I have read more than 15,000 SDSs in over 100 different workplaces. The technology has allowed me to see the challenges and opportunities that a typical employer faces when using hazardous materials. The following are examples from a typical workplace chemical collection: A typical workplace has 120 chemical products. That is over …
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