Hazcom: Hazard Communication: Behind The Scenes WHMIS

This training covers all aspects of working with hazardous materials. Following the Canadian WHMIS regulations (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System), this course features high-quality, interactive video. Content addresses the roles and responsibilities from an employee and employer perspective, including the development and implementation of a WHMIS plan.

Other topics include physical and health hazards, chemical routes of entry into the body, information found on labels and MSDSs, and chemical safety in the home.

All Canadian workers.

• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
  • Employer responsibilities
• Physical and Health Hazards
  • Physical hazards
  • Chemicals that produce physical hazards
  • Health hazards
  • Acute and chronic health effects
• Routes of Entry
  • Routes of entry explained
  • Routes of entry examples
  • Protection from airborne chemicals
  • Protection from chemical absorption
  • Avoiding contamination of food with your hands
• Container Labels
  • Finding labels
  • Applying labels
  • Information on container labels
  • Transferring a chemical to another container
  • Maintaining labels
• Material Safety Data Sheets
  • Product and company identification
  • Exposure limits
  • Emergency response
  • Flash point
  • Handling, Storage, PPE and exhaust ventilation
  • Vapor Density
  • Specific gravity
  • Stability, reactivity, and poisonous effects
• Household Chemicals
  • Precautions with household chemicals

• Explain the Right to Know Law employer requirements
  • Recall the need to prepare a written plan.
  • Explain the need to inventory hazardous chemicals.
  • Recognize the need to maintain a Material Safety Data Sheet file.
  • Identify the safety benefits of container labels.
  • State the requirement to train employees about chemical safety procedures.
• Protect yourself from the physical and health hazards of chemicals.
  • Differentiate between physical and health hazards.
  • Identify examples of physical hazards.
  • List types of chemicals that produce physical hazards.
  • Explain that chemicals can affect body systems as well as specific organs.
  • Distinguish the difference between chronic and acute health effects.
• Avoid chemicals entering your body.
  • Define routes of entry.
  • List a chemical's available routes of entry into the body.
  • Choose the proper protection to avoid exposure from airborne chemica
  • Select the proper procedure to avoid exposure from absorbtion through the skin and eyes.
  • Identify the proper procedure used to avoid ingesting hazardous chemicals.
• Read labels to locate necessary safety information.
  • Agree that all containers of hazardous chemicals must be labeled.
  • Name the person(s) responsible for labeling containers.
  • List information found on container labels.
  • Identify the labeling requirements when transferring a hazardous chemical from one container to another.
  • Recognize the importance of label maintenance and legibility.
• Use Material Safety Data Sheets to get specific information.
  • List information contained in an MSDS.
  • Define Permissible Exposure Limit.
  • Define Threshold Limit Value.
  • Identify the types of emergency information included in an MSDS.
  • Define Flash Point.