This course is mandatory for all new hires at Viking Air. It is part of the New Hire Training Package. Selected employees from specific departments are required to have re-current WHIMS training while employed at Viking Air.
Work Safe BC
5.7 Worker training
(1) An employer must ensure that a worker who works with a hazardous product or may be exposed to a hazardous product in the course of his or her work activities is trained in the following:
(a) the content required on a supplier label and workplace label, and the purpose and significance of the information contained on those labels;
(b) the content required on an SDS and the purpose and significance of the information contained on the SDS;
(c) procedures for the safe use, storage, handling and disposal of the hazardous product;
(d) procedures for the safe use, handling and disposal of the hazardous product contained or transferred in
(i) a pipe or a piping system including valves,
(ii) a process or reaction vessel, or
(iii) a tank car, tank truck, ore car, conveyor belt or similar conveyance;
(e) procedures to be followed where fugitive emissions are present if workers may be exposed to those fugitive emissions;
(f) procedures to be followed in case of an emergency involving the hazardous product.
(2) Instruction required by subsection (1) must be specific to the workplace and cover the safe work procedures and emergency response procedures to be used in the workplace.
[Amended by B.C. Reg. 30/2015, effective August 4, 2015.]
WORKPLACE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS INFORMATION SYSTEM (WHMIS)
5.3 Application
5.4 Prohibition
5.5 WHMIS program
5.6 Worker education
5.7 Worker training
5.8 Supplier label
5.9 Workplace label for employer-produced products
5.10 Workplace label for decanted products
5.11 Piping systems and vessels
5.12 Placard identifiers
5.13 Laboratory label
5.14 Supplier SDS
5.15 Employer SDS
5.16 Availability of an SDS
5.17 Deletions from an SDS
5.18 Confidential business information and claims for exemption under the HMIRA
5.19 Claims under the HMIR Act [Repealed]