Consultation: Consumer Products Exclusion under the Hazardous Products Act

What we heard

Please contact us by email at whmis-simdut@hc-sc.gc.ca to receive a copy of the What We Heard report.

How to participate

We invited stakeholders to read Health Canada’s consultation document available on the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) website and submit their comments through the survey on the website or by email to whmis-simdut@hc-sc.gc.ca.

About the consultation

Why we consulted

Health Canada engaged stakeholders and partners, through the survey, to better understand the scope and scale of hazardous consumer product use in the workplace, their impact on workers’ health and safety, and to inform how best to protect workers who use, handle, and store hazardous consumer products in workplaces, and in particular:

• understand concerns, if any, the consumer product exclusion under the Hazardous Products Act may pose from a workers’ protection perspective;
• collect views on potential approaches to address consumer products; and,
• inform a thorough cost-benefit analysis on the potential impacts of any regulatory change.

Intended audience

Health Canada engaged with various stakeholders, including:

• Industry Stakeholders
• Federal, Provincial and Territorial Partners
• Labour organizations
• Employers
• Workers

Comments were also welcome from members of the general public.

Related information

• Hazardous Products Act
• Hazardous Products Regulations
• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)

Contact us

Email: whmis-simdut@hc-sc.gc.ca