Aviation Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

5.25 (1) Subject to section 5.29, if an employer receives a supplier material safety data sheet, the employer may prepare a work place material safety data sheet to be used on board an aircraft in place of the supplier material safety data sheet if

• (a) the work place material safety data sheet discloses at least the information disclosed on the supplier material safety data sheet;

• (b) the information disclosed on the work place material safety data sheet does not disclaim or contradict the information disclosed on the supplier material safety data sheet;

• (c) the supplier material safety data sheet is readily available for examination by employees; and

• (d) the work place material safety data sheet discloses that the supplier material safety data sheet is available on board the aircraft.

(2) The employer shall update a work place material safety data sheet and the work place label

• (a) as soon as practicable but not later than 90 days after the day on which the new hazard information becomes available to the employer; and

• (b) at least once every three years.

(3) If the information required to be disclosed by this section is not available or not applicable to the controlled product, the employer shall replace the information with the words “not available” or “not applicable”, as the case may be, in the English version and the words “non disponible” or “sans objet”, as the case may be, in the French version of the work place material safety data sheet.