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Author: Lisa Hallsworth
16 October 2018
Municipalities use hundreds of chemicals in their day to day operations for cleaning, maintenance, water treatment, waste water treatment, swimming pools, arenas, etc. Managing employee occupational health and safety and the regulatory requirements for these chemicals can be challenging at best. SDS RiskAssist™ works with the municipalities’ WHMIS documents. It reads the safety data sheets, compares …
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Author: Lisa Hallsworth
26 March 2020
The Coronavirus – Need Help to Ensure You Are Using Effective Disinfectants? The coronavirus has left many businesses reeling while other organizations are expending heroic effort in disinfect surfaces to prevent its spread. The disinfecting efforts present two challenges: ensuring the correct use of disinfectants that meet established criteria for use against the coronavirus and protecting workers …
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Author: Lisa Hallsworth
8 March 2017
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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Author: Lisa Hallsworth
17 March 2020
Originally Posted: March 17, 2020 Updated: June 21st, 2020 & January 8th, 2021 Once again, Canadians find ourselves in the midst of an alarming situation with parts of our healthcare system stretched to the max as they struggle to treat those arriving at hospitals with COVID-19. But there is hope for 2021 as we see …
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Author: Rob Hallsworth
13 March 2019
The first question we are asked about SDSs is around the need to update your safety data sheets. In fact, most organizations and people are more concerned with how to keep SDSs updated then they are about any health and safety issues when using the product. What the Regulations Say WHMIS 1988 stated the following …
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Author: Rob Hallsworth
8 January 2018
Providers of online WHMIS education claim that their program will help employees to: “recognize hazardous materials, gather additional hazard information, and learn how to safely store, use and handle these items” They do it by teaching people to read the Safety Data Sheets or SDS. For a small amount of money and an hour of …
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