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WHMIS Regulations Table of Contents

Hazardous Products Act

Introduction
1. Short Title
2. Interpretation

Part I: Prohibited And Restricted Products

3. Application
4. Prohibitions
5-7. Regulations and amendments to Schedule I
8-9. Board of Review
10. Disclosure

Part II: Controlled Products

11. Interpretation
12. Application
13-14. Prohibitions
15. Regulations
16. Disclosure of Generic Chemical Identity
16.1. Interim Orders
17. Ingredient Disclosure List
18. Amendments to Schedule II
19. Consultation
20. Disclosure

Part III: Administration And Enforcement

21. Inspectors and Analysts
22-24. Search, Seizure and Forfeiture
25-26. Restoration
27. Regulations
28. Offence, Punishment and Procedure
29. Exception, etc., Need not be mentioned and Burden of Proof
30. Certificate of Analyst
31. Trial of Offence

HPA Schedules

I. Part I – Prohibited products
Part II – Restricted products
II. Controlled products

Controlled Products Regulations

1. Short Title
2. Interpretation
3. Concentration expressed as a percentage

Part I: Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)

4. Concentration cut-off
5. Complex mixtures
5.1. Flavours & Fragrances
6. Controlled products with same product identifier
7. Generic MSDS
8. Employer exemptions
8.1. Secondary supplier exemptions (for a mixture)
8.2. Secondary supplier exemptions (for an ingredient)
9. Laboratory sample
10. Laboratory supply house
10.1. Radioactive nuclides and non-radioactive carrier materials
11. Range of concentration of ingredients
12. Information to be disclosed on a MSDS
13. Information to be disclosed on a MSDS: conflicting information

Part II: Labels

14. Inner containers
15. Bulk shipments
15.1. Secondary supplier exemptions
16. Laboratory samples
17. Laboratory supply houses
17.1. Radioactive nuclides and non-radioactive carrier materials
18. Labels of bulk shipments
19. Information to be disclosed on labels
20. Label design
21. Legibility of labels
22. Reproduction of hazard symbols

Part III: General

23. Notification in respect of importation, etc.
24. Manner of disclosing information
25. Manner of disclosing information: contradictions
26. Information in respect of (filing of) exemptions
27. Information in respect of (descision regarding) exemptions
28. Identical product identifiers
29. Revisions to MSDSs and Labels
30. Provision of information (to medical personnel)
31. Provision of information (to inspectors, purchasers, etc.)

Part IV: Classes Of Controlled Products

32. Interpretation
33. Manner of establishing classification
34. CLASS A – COMPRESSED GAS
35. Class B – Flammable And Combustible Material
36. Division 1: Flammable gases
37. Division 2: Flammable liquids
38. Division 3: Combustible liquids
39. Division 4: Flammable solids
40. Division 5: Flammable aerosols
41. Division 6: Reactive flammable materials
42. CLASS C – Oxidizing Material
43. General
44. Formulae for equivalent LC₅₀
45. Toxicological evaluation of mixtures: LD₅₀ and LC₅₀ data
Division 1: Materials causing immediate and serious toxic effects
Subdivision A: Very toxic material
46. Acute lethality
47. Poisonous substances as defined by the TDGR
48. Untested mixtures
Subdivision B: Toxic Material
49. Acute lethality
50. Poisonous substances as defined by the TDGRs
51. Untested mixtures
Division 2: Materials causing other toxic effects
Subdivision A: Very Toxic Material
52. Chronic toxic effects
53. Teratogenicity and embryotoxicity
54. Carcinogenicity
55. Reproductive toxicity
56. Respiratory tract sensitization
57. Mutagenicity
58. Untested mixtures
Subdivision B: Toxic Material
59. Chronic toxic effects
60. Skin or eye irritation
61. Skin sensitization
62. Mutagenicity
63. Untested mixtures
64. Division 3: Biohazardous infectious material
65. CLASS E – Corrosive Material
66. CLASS F – Dangerously Reactive material

CPR Schedules

I. Information to be Disclosed on a Material Safety Data Sheet
I.I. Physical Containment Requirements for Low Individual or Community Risk Agents
II. Hazard Symbols
III. Label Border
IV. Methods of Testing for Flash Point
V. Method of Testing for Determining Flammable Solids that Ignite Readily
VI. Test for Determining the Flashback and the Length of the Flame Projection of Products, Materials and Substances Packaged in Aerosol Containers

Appendix (To The Reference Manual)

Appendix A – Use of Professional Judgement in Classification
Appendix A – Figure 1, Decision Tree for other than Class D
Appendix A – Figure 2, Decision Tree for Class D