WHMIS Final Test (London)

1. The signal word 'Danger' is used for the most severe hazards.

2. The three main parts of the WHMIS communication system include:

3. Under WHMIS, workers are responsible for which of the following tasks:

4. Consider this scenario to answer question 4: Luke is a caretaker at a long-term care facility. When he removes the garbage from a resident's room, a needle punctures through the bag and scrapes Luke's leg.

 

Which route of entry is most likely in this scenario?

5. Consider this scenario to answer questions 5 and 6:

Tim is a landscaper who frequently uses a chemical to treat the soil he works with. The chemical bears the following pictogram:

6. Tim has been using this chemical for decades, but emerging research suggests that prolonged exposure to this chemical can cause heart disease.
This health effect is considered to be:

7. It is the employer's responsibility to ensure that hazardous materials are handled, used, stored, and disposed of properly.

8. Which of the following pictograms represents chemicals under pressure?

9. Which of the following elements is contained on a product's supplier label?

10. A workplace label must have a reference to the product's Safety Data Sheet.

11. It is a worker's responsibility to know what to do in an emergency involving the use of a chemical under WHMIS.

12. Precautionary statements provide brief preventative information on hazardous products.

13. Consider this scenario to answer questions 13-16: Sophie works at an auto repair shop. The windshield wash fluid they usually use is a blue colour. Sophie received a new shipment of this wash fluid: the liquid is now green. Sophie is concerned this product is not the same fluid she's been using.

Since Sophie is unsure about this product, she should not use it.

14. What is the best step Sophie could take to ensure that this product is the same one she has used before?

15. Sophie decided to ask her employer, who confirmed that the wash fluid is the same product, but a different colour. Sophie could have also checked the Safety Data Sheet on her own, without consulting her employer.

16. Information about the windshield wash's appearance, like its colour, appears in what section of the Safety Data Sheet?