Chapter 1 City of Edmonton Core Subjects Flashcards
What are the 3 basic components of WHIMS?
Labels
Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
Worker Education
Define WHMIS
WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System)
To reduce incidents of workplace exposure to and accidents with hazardous material must be
easily identifiable to workers. Once the material is identified the worker must know how to
handle the material safely and find information on the material.
Describe and list the information that must be included on a Supplier and Workplace label.
These labels must have a distinctive
WHMIS border of a contrasting color to
the package. The label must contain
eight separate pieces of information…
Refer to
Workplace Label
These labels must contain three of the eight
kinds of information:
1.Product Identifier (name of
material)
2.Safe Handling Precautions
3.SDS
List the sections found within a Safety Data Sheet.
1.Identification
2.Hazard Identification
3.Composition/
Information on
ingredients
4.First-aid Measures
5.Fire-fighting Measures
6.Accidental Release
Measures
7.Handling and Storage
8.Exposure
controls/Personal
Protection
9.Physical and Chemical
Properties
10.Stability and Reactivity
11.Toxicological
Information
12.Ecological Information
13.Disposal Considerations
14.Transport Information
15.Regulatory Information
16.Other information
Describe the City of Edmonton’s Environmental Policy using the mnemonic CPM.
Continual Improvement of Environmental Performance
Protect the Environment
Meet Compliance Obligations
What are the some of the physical hazard classes in line with the hazardous products act
Physical Hazard Classes
1 Explosives
2 Flammable gases
3 Flammable aerosols
4 Oxidizing gases
5 Gases under pressure
6 Flammable liquids
7 Flammable solids
8 Self-reactive substances and mixtures
9 Pyrophoric liquids
10 Pyrophoric solids
11 Self-heating substances and mixtures
12 Substances and mixtures which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
13 Oxidizing liquids
14 Oxidizing solids
15 Organic peroxides
16 Corrosive to metals
17 Combustible dusts
18 Simple asphyxiants
19 Pyrophoric gases
20 Physical hazards not otherwise classified
What are the some of the health hazard classes in line with the hazardous products act
Health Hazard Classes
1 Acute toxicity
2 Skin corrosion/irritation
3 Serious eye damage/eye irritation
4 Respiratory or skin sensitization
5 Germ cell mutagenicity
6 Carcinogenicity
7 Reproductive toxicity
8 Specific target organ toxicity — single exposure
9 Specific target organ toxicity — repeated exposure
10 Aspiration hazard
11 Biohazardous infectious materials
12 Health hazards not otherwise classified
