Issue link: https://www.wsps.ca/resource-hub/i/1519439
WHMIS – HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS REGULATION (HPR) AMENDMENT 2 305-BSQ-01-IADO © 2024, Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS) 1 877 494 WSPS (9777) | 905 614 1400 | WSPS.CA The amendments to the HPR will result in key changes to WHMIS, including: The Adoption of New Classes and Categories – Hazard Classes There will be the adoption of a new physical hazard class, Chemicals Under Pressure. Note: Hazard Class Pyrophoric Gases will be repealed – Hazard Category Flammable Aerosols hazard class will be changed to Aerosols and the hazard class will adopt a new category: Aerosols – Category 3 (non-flammable aerosol products) Modification of Classification Criteria for Certain Hazard Classes – Flammable Gases There will be the adoption of subcategories for Flammable Gases for Category 1 – Pyrophoric Gases Repeal of the Pyrophoric Gases hazard class as the adoption of new subcategories for Flammable Gases include these gases under a subcategory of Flammable Gases – Category 1A – Classification criteria for Water-Activated Toxicants For substances and mixtures that meet the criteria to be classified under Acute Toxicity (Inhalation) and are also water-activated toxicants, classification is based on the acute inhalation toxicity of the substance or mixture as sold or imported – Health Hazard Classes that include both categories and subcategories Specification that mixtures may be classified in a subcategory when there are sufficient data available – Classification criteria for Reproductive Toxicity – Category 2 Correction to criteria to specify that adverse effects observed in humans or animals must not be considered as a secondary non-specific consequence of other toxic effects New Information Elements Required on Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) and/or Labels – Hazard Statement for Combustible Dust Products Amendment to provide a second option for the hazard statement: "May form explosible dust-air mixture" in addition to the already approved "May form combustible dust concentrations in air" – Schedule 1 to the HPR (Information Elements on SDSs) Amendment of item 9 of Schedule 1: Modification of information elements concerning physical and chemical properties of hazardous products WSPS.CA