Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission
www.hmirc-ccrmd.gc.ca
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Ensuring Safety. Enabling Competition.
Each day, thousands of workers in manufacturing facilities across the country handle chemical products that may pose serious health hazards if precautions are not taken. Chemical suppliers are required by law to provide information about these products through material safety data sheets and product labels— and are at the same time entitled to protect their trade secrets. The Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission plays a crucial role in balancing the industry’s right to competitive confidentiality with the need to provide accurate health and safety information to workers.
In 2007-08, building on the tremendous renewal efforts undertaken in the preceding years, HMIRC organized to achieve new efficiency in its operations and new agility in its decision-making. The Commission worked steadily to maintain its high standards of scientific rigour and its commitment to both workers’ health and safety and industry’s competitive vitality.
Renew. Rally. Realize.
“The Hazardous Materials Information Review Commission (HMIRC) ten-year legislative, regulatory and administrative renewal program has been highly successful thanks to a dynamic and constructive partnership between the Council of Governors representing the workers, employers, and suppliers, and the federal, provincial and territorial governments. These achievements by consensus foretell a promising future for HMIRC and WHMIS.”
- Dr. Yves Brissette, Chair, HMIRC Council of Governors
