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Write accurate, consistent, and WHMIS-compliant MSDSs to improve workplace safety.

Format: Stand-alone Application
Language: English
Price: Contact CCOHS

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Product Description

Easily write WHMIS-compliant MSDSs for your products with CANWrite MSDS authoring software.

Provide clear, consistent and comprehensive hazard-specific chemical safety information. CANWrite's clear language and logic-driven phrases will help ensure your MSDSs are consistent, reliable, and understandable.

Streamline your MSDS authoring process with CANWrite.

Use CANWrite to:

  • Prepare accurate WHMIS classifications
  • Increase the quality and usability of your MSDSs
  • Improve the safe use of chemical products

CANWrite features:

  • WHMIS- and ANSI-compliant formats
  • Detailed WHMIS classification worksheet and WHMIS Audit tool
  • Clear language phrases
  • Built-in logic linking key hazards to appropriate hazard controls
  • Phrases for important, often overlooked hazards (such as combustible dusts)
  • Standardized phrases generated in both English and French

CANWrite is ideal for:

  • Small- to medium-sized chemical manufacturers and suppliers
  • OSH consultants
  • Occupational hygienists and OSH professionals
  • Regulatory affairs officers and specialists

CANWrite is integrated with CCOHS databases and resources for convenient access to critical information, including:

  • CHEMINFO (includes Occupational exposure limits), RTECS and HSDB databases (subscription required)
  • Regulatory and advisory lists for carcinogens
  • NPRI and other lists

Future releases of CANWrite will incorporate requirements of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) to help update any MSDSs that may be required.

Contact CCOHS to learn more about CANWrite.

 
 

Take a Guided Tour - Join Lea Neglia, CANWrite Project Leader and Jessie Callaghan, Senior Technical Specialist, as they guide you through the CANWrite MSDS Authoring Software from CCOHS! Discover how CANWrite can help authors produce MSDSs that provide clear and accurate, hazard-specific chemical safety information.

Requires Windows 2000 or higher

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