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Hey guys I was wondering do we get a WHMIS certificate if we did the eng/sci 1a00 course (and passed it) ? If yes, where can I get my certificate ?
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05-03-2012 at 12:20 AM
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Hey guys I was wondering do we get a WHMIS certificate if we did the eng/sci 1a00 course (and passed it) ? If yes, where can I get my certificate ?
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Never got a certificate. In fact, when I started working in a lab I had to pass a more in-depth WHMIS training course: http://www.workingatmcmaster .ca/re...20WHMIS%20Core
Even after that I didn't actually receive a certificate, just a sticker and paper card telling the bio department I passed the course.
Edit: I guess I should clarify that when I say "lab" I mean working on my thesis in a professor's lab where everything is in the same room (unlike course labs where they bring everything into an empty room).
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05-03-2012 at 12:22 AM
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When I finished that in my first year chemistry courses, it was just a "pass or fail". I think this is just a requirement for safety concerns in labs and just a procedure for the department to complete
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05-03-2012 at 03:54 PM
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What do you need the WHMIS for? Most likely science 1A00 won't cut it. As Jeremy said, you'd need more intense WHMIS training for pretty much anything.
Also, I wouldn't count on a certificate...EOHSS kind of sucks at record keeping. I have obtained my records from them previously, handed in updates to them as recently as September, and then a couple of months ago when I wanted to get an updated training record to send to FHS, they told me they had no record of me ever existing.
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05-03-2012 at 04:39 PM
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What do you need the WHMIS for? Most likely science 1A00 won't cut it. As Jeremy said, you'd need more intense WHMIS training for pretty much anything.
Also, I wouldn't count on a certificate...EOHSS kind of sucks at record keeping. I have obtained my records from them previously, handed in updates to them as recently as September, and then a couple of months ago when I wanted to get an updated training record to send to FHS, they told me they had no record of me ever existing.
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That sucks... wouldn't your department have a record of it though? I know the biology department scanned my EOHSS card and typed some stuff into my file... couldn't you use that instead of having to do the training again?
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05-03-2012 at 04:57 PM
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That sucks... wouldn't your department have a record of it though? I know the biology department scanned my EOHSS card and typed some stuff into my file... couldn't you use that instead of having to do the training again?
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FHS had my old file, from before EOHSS lost my documents, but I needed the recent version that contained the yearly updates. EOHSS and FHS are separate, but I work in two different departments (chem and biochem), and the chem dept goes through EOHSS and the biochem dept goes through the FHS safety office, so I always needed to go through a million emails to send my records back and forth. And then suddenly I failed to exist as far as EOHSS was concerned...which is kind of a problem for my job in the chem dept. |
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