On Board Trains Occupational Health and Safety Regulations

7.30 (1) Subject to section 7.37, where an employer receives a supplier material safety data sheet, the employer may prepare a work place material safety data sheet to be used in the work place 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 available for examination by employees in the work place; and

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

(2) The employer shall update the work place material safety data sheet referred to in subsection (1)

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

• (b) at least once every three years.

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