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Implementing WHMIS Training

At the end of this section, trainers will have some ideas about how they will provide this training at their
worksites. As a trainer, you can now share the information learned in the Train-the-Trainer course to
with your coworkers. This is the generic information; you also need to consider how to address the
site-specific information.

Determine who requires WHMIS education and what specific education they need. Some staff may
use no controlled products, so no training is required (you may want to give an overview). Other
workers will work with a variety of controlled products. The generic will be standard but site-specific
and will vary.

GENERIC EDUCATION

AMHSA has developed a WHMIS Self Study Workbook and exam for participants which trainers can
purchase. If trainers use this material, AMHSA will issue certificates to participants on your behalf.

When you provide the WHMIS education, each participant receives their own copy of the Self Study
Workbook. Review and be comfortable with the workbook before conducting training.

These workbooks are “self study” in that they can be given to participants prior to a classroom training
session, for them to go through at their own pace. At the end of each chapter is a quiz, and answers
are provided at the end of the workbook. Participants should attempt the quizzes. Some trainers
prefer to go through the workbooks with the participants all together in the classroom instead of giving
workbooks out in advance. Either way is acceptable, as long as participants have enough time to
absorb the material.

In the classroom, review the information in the workbooks and make sure everyone is comfortable with
the material. Encourage discussion by asking open-ended questions (as opposed to those requiring
only a yes or no answer).

It is important to keep this training in context. Some of the WHMIS information in the trainer’s manual
is technical in nature and goes beyond what participants would require in order to understand the
WHMIS concepts.

Upon completion of the self study workbook, participants will have:

 a basic knowledge of WHMIS

 an understanding of the WHMIS labeling system including hazard symbols, and

 a basic understanding of the information contained on Material Safety Data Sheets.

Trainers may want to use audio/visual materials such as overheads or a video to help with training as
well as sample container labels or binders with MSDS. People have different learning methods: some
are better with hearing information, some visually, some use touch. Using a combination approach will
address everyone’s learning styles and reinforce the information.

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