Supplier Labels - Overview

You may remember back at the start that one of the groups with WHMIS responsibilities are the Suppliers of chemicals. Any product used in the workplace that is classified as hazardous must be properly labelled.  

The most common label you will come across is a Supplier Label. This is your first alert to the hazards of a product and precautions that can be taken to be safe. They must be placed on every container that a supplier provides into the workplace and there are a number of pieces of information that must always be present.  

In the next pages you will learn how to read these labels. Let's have a look at an example label.