Health symbols

Cards (16)

  • HPPS - Household Hazardous Product Symbols
  • WHMIS - Workplace hazardous materials information system
  • HHPS is used on household items such as bleach of hairspray
  • HHPS is also used on science containers in labs
  • WHMIS is used in workplace environment, appear on chemical containers
  • There are way more symbols in WHMIS then on HPPS
  • MSDS - Material safety data sheet
  • Triangle - Caution
  • Rhombus - Warning
  • Octagon - danger
  • 4 symbols (HHPS) - explosive, corrosive, flammable, poisonous
  • 3 health symbols WHMIS - poisonous, corrosive, danger to health
  • Health Sector - Health Hazard, Corrosive, Poisonous
  • Environment - Biohazardous/Infectious, Environment Hazard
  • Miscellaneous - Compressed gas, Harmful
  • Fire sector - explosive, flammable, oxidizing