Audience
Professionals and companies in need of WHMIS documentation
About Tilapia WHMIS
Tilapia WHMIS is a free and easy tool that lets you create and print WHMIS-compliant labels.
Compliance to WHMIS is mandatory for all employers operating in Canada. It is enforced by provincial and territorial health and safety government organizations, or by the federal Labour Program in certain cases. There is such a thing as a health and safety inspection (or audit); inspectors can verify, among other things, that all safety information is available to workers, and that workers have proper knowledge on how to safely handle the hazardous products of their workplace.
GHS, or Globally Harmonized System, is a world-wide standard that aims at keeping workplace hazardous material information and classification systems consistent between nations. The Canadian Workplace Hazardous Material Information System, WHMIS, has been revised in 2015 to include elements of the GHS standard into its own regulations.