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Safety Symbols Flashcards

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1
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what are the two types of safety symbols

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HHPS and WHMIS

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What does HHPS stand for

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Hazardous household safety symbols
And it is commercially available meaning everyone has products with them

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what does WHMIS stand for

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Workplace hazardous material information sheet and you need a Lisence to buy these products meaning not everyone can get them/available to them

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Skull

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Poison

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Fire

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Flammable

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Explosion

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Explosive (Gas canisters)

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Bone hand

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Corrosive

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Triangle

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Dangerous container

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Octagon

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Dangerous contents

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Order of answering HHPS

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Shape then symbol (dangerous container flammable)

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Diamond with fire

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Flammable (combustable) (can light on fire)

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Diamond with explosion

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Explosive

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Diamond with skull

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Poison causing death with short exposure (death) (acid)

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Diamond with the fire around circle

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Oxidizing material (any chemical that can react with the air) (could catch on fire) (rusting)

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Diamond with gas exhaust

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Compressed gas (squeezed gas in a small container) (fire extinguisher)

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Diamond with crack in persons silhouette

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May cause serious health effects (causes diseases and will eventually kill you)

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Diamond with Test tube dripping onto hand

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Corrosive (can break down any flesh/any organic matter)

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Diamond with tree and dead fish

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Environmental aquatic damage

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Diamond with exclamation Mark

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May cause less serious health effects (won’t kill you)

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Circle with weird circles

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Biohazardous infectious material (viruses/ bacteria)

21
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Difference between diamond and circle

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Diamonds are all dealing with chemicals which is not alive but circle is the only one dealing with bacteria which is technically alive

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