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Wow, Ralph. Good catch. I read a lot, and that Canadian article is the first really good airing of both the issues and the personalities.
The Canadians often lagged behind the US in safety, and I'm seeing a real change there. And the biggest change is in their GHS policy. WorkSafe Canada says they are NOT going to harmonize with the US GHS as they have been pressured to do. That they are not giving up their requirements such as the one requiring to declare 1% of any ingredient, trade secret or not, which is a carcinogen, mutagen, etc. The are not giving consumer products an exemption from GHS like we do. They are telling California and the US that the "US GHS is not the GHS." The real GHS is the UN GHS.
Well, good on Canada. And that puts the US now dead last in compliance with GHS. I can only hope that when other countries see our SDSs--especially Section 11--they will refuse shipment. Get a comparison between the UN GHS (latest version is 2011) and our SDS and see why refusal of a shipment would be within their rights.
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From: Secretary, ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <secretary**At_Symbol_Here**DCHAS.ORG>
To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU>
Sent: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 9:27 am
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Fwd: [SAFETY2] Article on UCLA incident
Below is a link to an article from a major daily paper in Canada on the UCLA case.
- Ralph
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From: Wayne Wood <wayne.wood**At_Symbol_Here**MCGILL.CA>
Date: March 31, 2014 at 8:56:26 AM EDT
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Subject: [SAFETY2] Article on UCLA incident
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Here is a feature article that ran in the Sun yesterday:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/03/30/a_young_lab_worker_a_professor_and_a_deadly_accident.html
W.
Wayne Wood | Associate Director, University Safety (EHS), University Services - Directeur Adjoint, Direction de la pr=C3=A9vention (SSE), Services universitaires | McGill University | 3610 rue McTavish Street, 4th floor | Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 1Y2 | Tel: (514) 398-2391
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