WHMIS Symbols
HHPS
Symbols
Guidelines
Guidelines
100

Unshaded skull image 

What is the WHMIS symbol for immediate toxic effects?

100

Hazerdous Household Products Symbols

What is the meaning of HHPS?

100

Upside-down triangle

What is the HHPS symbol to show CAUTION? 

100

Teacher

Who is the person you should report injuries to?

100

Long hair

What type of hair needs to be tied back in a lab? 

200

Flames 

What is the WHMIS symbol for FLAMMABLE? 

200
Skeletal hand 

What is the HHPS symbol for CAUTION/CORROSIVE? 

200

Octagon

What is the HHPS symbol to show DANGER?

200

Wash hands 

What is something you should do when finished in a lab?

200

Standing

What is the physical position you should be in when working in a lab?

300

T with a dot underneath 

What is the WHMIS symbol for POISONOUS?

300

Dark skeletal image in an octagon

What is the dark HHPS symbol for POISONOUS?

300

Diamond

What is the HHPS symbol to show WARNING?

300

Neat and tidy

What is the way your work station should be kept?

300

Hand-waving, or wafting 

What is the method you should use to smell a chemical?

400
Letter R with a waves released from a test tube 

What is the WHMIS symbol for DANGEROUSLY REACTIVE? 

400

Circle 

What is the shape of all WHMIS symbols?

400

Open-toed shoes

What are shoes you should not wear in a lab?

400

Contacts

What is something you should not wear in a lab?

500

A circle with three moon-shaped circular/radial image

What is the WHMIS symbol for BIOHAZARDOUS? 

500

Bottle-like image 

What is the WHMIS symbol for COMPRESSED GAS?

500

Goggles

What is something you should wear in a lab to protect your eyes?

500

Eye-wash station

What is a place to wash eyes if a chemical enters yours eye(s)?

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