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Simple, Relevant Messages for End-Users of Hazardous Chemicals
- Rob Hallsworth
- 22 March 2017
- 8:00 am
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The end-users of hazardous chemicals in the workplace are workers, students, clients or contractors. They are typically not the technical experts who understand the chemical properties, potential hazards and exposure control methods for the materials they are using. The Workplace Hazardous Information Management System (WHMIS) attempts to help end-users by requiring the use of Safety …
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What are Designated Substances in Ontario?
- Lisa Hallsworth
- 8 March 2017
- 9:58 pm
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Updated: December 28th, 2020 In Ontario, the Designated Substances are defined in Table 1 of Ontario Regulation 490/09. This regulation consolidates eleven of the twelve stand-alone regulations for designated substances being used, handled or stored in Ontario and it came into effect on July 1st, 2010. The only regulation that was not consolidated was O. …
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Chemicals Hazards Management – Past, Present & Future
- Lisa Hallsworth
- 13 February 2017
- 9:09 am
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Does Anybody Remember These? I’m not sure why I kept this collection of Collier’s Junior Classics but being born in the 60’s, this was my introduction to the world outside my family and I found it fascinating. Fast forward a few years and I was using Collier’s Encyclopedias together with the school library collection to …
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Your SDS Collection is a Gold Mine
- Rob Hallsworth
- 11 January 2017
- 11:53 pm
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Going for Gold, Your SDS Collection is Uniquely Valuable A good gold mine produces 2 ounces of gold for every ton of rock mined. That is a lot of effort to get the valuable nuggets from the overwhelming quantity of ore. Likewise, you are challenged to get the nuggets of information you need from your SDS …
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Your SDS collection as Your Safety Keystone!
- Lisa Hallsworth
- 27 December 2016
- 1:37 pm
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SDS collections are goldmines of information yet we groan when we think about them! Why is that? The average SDS is 10 pages. Thus having 10 hazardous materials in your organization means 100 pages of information! Most of us only need a few nuggets of information at a time and we are overwhelmed by the …
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