Something to brighten your day (Canadian WHMIS content)

So my employer requires me to take the CCOHS retraining program from WHMIS to the new global GHS system. Cool, thats fine.

Then I come across this:

So, apparently the GHS decided the labels had to be literal in their names compared to the old WHMIS ones. It is no longer "Poisonous and Infectious Materials" and now "Skull and Crossbones". This is not an across the board change, as Corrosion is still Corrosion, not "liquid spilling out of tube melts hand and rectangle"

:rofl:

Either I am just way misunderstanding what they were trying to get at, or someone from a 3rd world country wrote the training module :rofl:

I recognize the words, but none of them seem to go together in any coherent way.

In america, this means "slippery when wet". One of the dumber signs. First of all, I look at the sign and I see "people have fun in their cars here". Secondly, I am left to wonder whether or not you deserve a "too fast for conditions" ticket on any road that does not have this sign. But officer, I didn't see any signs leading me to believe this road is slippery when wet.

Pictograms suck. This one reminds me to check my gravy boat.

Those are particularly bad, though. I particularly like "exclamation point"

Look out for "exploding bombs" lol.

Streetwiseguy wrote: Pictograms suck. This one reminds me to check my gravy boat. Those are particularly bad, though. I particularly like "exclamation point"

This one makes sense in the same way that a floppy disk for "Save" does in a GUI...it made perfect sense at one time, but is a puzzling historical artifact today.

The standard check engine light looks suspiciously like an automatic, carbureted engine with a belt-driven fan. Granted, I do own one of those - but it doesn't have a check engine light. I suspect that most of them don't. The check engine light in my CRX is a computer chip, it's much cooler. It's not an engine problem, it's a computer problem.

My favorite pictogram fail is at our local Home Depot.

Are there people out there who do not know the standard symbol for a pedestrian crossing - but would be able to decipher PED XING?

the flame over circle seems like a scary one, i can deal with flames over a square or even a rectangle. but over a circle... count me out

rcutclif wrote: In america, this means "slippery when wet". One of the dumber signs. First of all, I look at the sign and I see "people have fun in their cars here". Secondly, I am left to wonder whether or not you deserve a "too fast for conditions" ticket on any road that does not have this sign. But officer, I didn't see any signs leading me to believe this road is slippery when wet.

My Charger flashes that symbol on the dash when I break the ass end loose. I take it to mean I am doing things right.

You can make your own safety signs for free here.

These are legit OSHA/ANSI safety signs. They can be as official or unofficial as you want

rcutclif wrote: In america, this means "slippery when wet". One of the dumber signs. First of all, I look at the sign and I see "people have fun in their cars here". Secondly, I am left to wonder whether or not you deserve a "too fast for conditions" ticket on any road that does not have this sign. But officer, I didn't see any signs leading me to believe this road is slippery when wet.

I thought it means burn outs permitted The funny thing is if you see those signs you will see tire marks all over the roads.

Check engine light should depict the outline of an empty wallet.

Right there with you, OP. I hate it when my ROFLs get WTFBBQd.

In reply to Streetwiseguy:

Must be eating a lot of french fries lately.

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