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  1. What does WHMIS stand for?
    Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System
  2. What is the purpose of WHMIS?
    The purpose is to ensure that employers have the right knowledge to teach thier employees about the materials they are working with.
  3. What are the three components of WHMIS?
    • - cautionary labels on containers of controlled products
    • - the provision of an MSDS for each controlled product
    • - a worker education program
  4. What does MSDS stand for?
    Material Safety Data Sheet
  5. What is the purpose of MSDS?
    It contains all the products information and all the dangerous and hazardous effect of it and also what to do when something wrong happen.
  6. Identify the image:
    A - Compressed Gas
  7. B- FLAMMABLE AND COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL
  8. c - Oxidizing material
  9. d1 - POISONOUS AND INFECTIOUS MATERIAL
  10. d2 - Materials Causing Other Toxic Effects
  11. d3 - Biohazardous Infectious Material
  12. e - CORROSIVE MATERIAL
  13. f - DANGEROUSLY REACTIVE MATERIAL

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 WHMIS
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2011-02-13 00:42:07
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