Hazardous Products Regulations

Marginal note:Concentration range — material or substance always present at the same concentration

• 4.4.1 (1) If the concentration of a material or substance in a hazardous product is required to be provided on a safety data sheet and the material or substance is always present at the same concentration, the safety data sheet must provide

  • (a) the actual concentration of the material or substance in the hazardous product; or

  • (b) one of the concentration ranges set out in subsection (3) within which the actual concentration of the material or substance in the hazardous product falls.

• Marginal note:Actual concentration within more than one concentration range

  (2) For the purpose of paragraph (1)(b), if the actual concentration of a material or substance in a hazardous product falls within more than one of the concentration ranges set out in subsection (3), any one of those ranges may be provided on the safety data sheet.

• Marginal note:Concentration ranges

  (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) and subsection (2), the concentration ranges are the following:

  • (a) from 0.1 to 1%;

  • (b) from 0.5 to 1.5%;

  • (c) from 1 to 5%;

  • (d) from 3 to 7%;

  • (e) from 5 to 10%;

  • (f) from 7 to 13%;

  • (g) from 10 to 30%;

  • (h) from 15 to 40%;

  • (i) from 30 to 60%;

  • (j) from 45 to 70%;

  • (k) from 60 to 80%;

  • (l) from 65 to 85%; and

  • (m) from 80 to 100%.

• Marginal note:Statement — trade secret

  (4) If the safety data sheet provides a concentration range further to paragraph (1)(b), it must also provide, immediately following the concentration range, a statement to the effect that the actual concentration is withheld as a trade secret.