WHMIS Quiz – 1 Multiple Choice Question Answers 2024

Last Updated on January 20, 2025

WHMIS Quiz – 1 Multiple Choice Question Answers 2024 (FREE PDF): This test is just a sample supplement designed for workers who have previously completed a WHMIS 1988 course. You can practice our free quiz question answers or download printable PDFs for better exam preparation online.

WHMIS Practice Test 1

Purpose WHMIS Test Prep
Question Type Multiple Choice and True False
Test Type Sample Practice Test
PDF Available YES
Printable YES
Total Question 15
Applicable Country Canada
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WHMIS Quiz – 1

Multiple Choice Question Answers

Q1. The “hazardous product” was called ___?

🔘A. Containment product 🔘B. Controlled product
🔘C. Hazard Control product 🔘D. Non-safely product
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Answer: B: Controlled product (the previous name for a hazardous product under WHMIS 1988)

Q2. Which of the following is the main purpose of the federal WHMIS legislation?

🔘A. Require employers to obtain health and safety information about hazardous products 🔘B. requires a supplier who sells or imports a hazardous product intended for use
🔘C. require employers to obtain health and safety information about hazardous products 🔘D. all of them
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Answer: D

Q3. WHMIS is a:

🔘A. Workplace transportation guide 🔘B. Workplace hazardous materials information system
🔘C. Workplace Hazard Control information system 🔘D. Worker safety information system
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Answer: B

Q4. The “hazardous product” is now known as___?

🔘A. 🔘B.
🔘C. 🔘D.
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Answer: A -7

Q5. WHMIS provides information to workers about hazardous materials through which of the following method(s)?

🔘A. Supplier & Workplace label 🔘B. Safety Data Sheets
🔘C. Worker education & training 🔘D. All of the above
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Answer: D

WHMIS is a Canada-wide system that provides workers with information about hazardous materials through supplier and workplace labels, SDSs, and worker education and training. In Canada, if a workplace uses hazardous products, there must be a WHMIS program in place. Workers must be educated and trained so they understand the hazards, and know how to work safely with hazardous products

Q5. According to the Hazardous Products Act (HPA) which of the following statement is True?

🔘A. Provide a label and safety data sheet to the purchaser of the product 🔘B. classify a product into prescribed hazard classes and categories
🔘C. provides for the protection of confidential business information 🔘D. set out the criteria that Health Canada must use
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Answer: A

Q6. Safety data sheets have a new, standardized ______ format with prescribed information elements.

🔘A. 12-section 🔘B. 13-section
🔘C. 15-section 🔘D. 16-section
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Answer: D

Safety data sheets have a new, standardized 16-section format with prescribed information elements. 

Q7. Safety data sheets are required to be updated _____ basis

🔘A. as per the requirement 🔘B. every three years
🔘C. on an ongoing basis 🔘D. when information becomes available
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Answer: C Safety data sheets are required to be updated on an ongoing basis, as new information about a product becomes available. There is no longer a requirement to update a safety data sheet every three years.

Q8. The “hazardous product” is now known as___?

🔘A. 🔘B.
🔘C. 🔘D.
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Answer: A -7

Q9. The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) generally requires

🔘A. employers to ensure hazardous products are identified 🔘B. to obtain safety data sheets and make them available in the workplace
🔘C. to provide instruction and training to workers. 🔘D. all of the above
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Answer: D

Q10. Which of the following is an example of controlling a hazard AT THE SOURCE

🔘A. Ventilation at the workstation 🔘B. Use of personal protective equipment
🔘C. Elimination or substitution of the hazardous substance 🔘D. All of the above
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Answer: C. Elimination or substitution of the hazardous substance

Q11. If you are a Supplier then one of your duty should be “to label hazardous products as a condition of sale or importation”.

🔘 True 🔘 False
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Answer: A True

A supplier is a person who, in the course of business, sells or imports a hazardous product

Q12. “A WHMIS supplier label may contain more than one hazard symbol”.

🔘 True 🔘 False
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Answer: A True

Q13. Staff or affiliates who work with hazardous substances must have job-specific WHMIS training at the departmental level

🔘 True 🔘 False
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Answer: A True

Q14. The goal of WHMIS education and training is to reduce workplace injury and illness due to exposure to hazardous substances.

🔘 True 🔘 False
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Answer: A True

Q15. There are two broad hazard groups: physical hazards and health hazards.

🔘 True 🔘 False
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Answer: A True
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