Understanding WHMIS Safety Data Sheets

Hazardous chemicals are essential to a wide variety of industries, impacting everything from manufacturing and agriculture to consumer goods and energy. While these hazardous substances are essential, they also present various dangers to Canadian workers due to their physical or chemical properties. Because of these dangers, Health Canada developed the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, known throughout Canada as WHMIS. This program provides an overview of key components of safety data sheets so that employees will be better prepared to work safely with and around chemicals. Topic include: What an SDS is The fact that safety data sheets must be readily available Detailed information about the 16 sections contained on an SDS