Reference Manual for the WHMIS Requirements of the Hazardous Products Act and Controlled Products Regulations

HPA, Schedule I, Part I - "Prohibited Products"

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SCHEDULE I

PART I

1. Jequirity beans (abrus precatorius) or any substance or article made from or including jequirity beans in whole or in part.

2. Furniture and other articles, intended for children, painted with a liquid coating material containing lead compounds of which the lead content is in excess of 0.50 per cent of the total weight of the contained solids, including pigments, film solids and driers.

3. [Deleted, SOR/2001-270, s. 1]

4. Products made in whole or in part of textile fibres, other than products included in items 5 and 13 of this Part and items 14, 29, 30, 31.1 and 40 of Part II of this Schedule, that, when tested in accordance with method D1230-61, the Standard Method of Test for Flammability of Clothing Textiles, a standard of the American Society for Testing and Materials, have a time of flame spread of:

1. 3.5 seconds or less, where the products do not have a raised fibre surface; or
   
2. 4 seconds or less, where the products have a raised fibre surface and exhibit ignition or fusion of their base fibres.

5. Children's sleepwear, other than products included in item 39 of Part II of this Schedule, in sizes up to and including size 14X that, when tested in accordance with method D1230-61, the Standard Method of Test for Flammability of Clothing Textiles, a standard of the American Society for Testing and Materials, have a time of flame spread of 7 seconds or less.

6. Spectacle frames that, in whole or in part, are made of or contain cellulose nitrate.

7. Toys, equipment and other products for use by a child in learning or play that are, in whole or in part, made of or impregnated with celluloid or cellulose nitrate, other than Ping Pong balls.

8. Toys, equipment and other products for use by a child in learning or play that contain any of the following substances:

1. carbon tetrachloride or any substance containing carbon tetrachloride,
   
2. methyl alcohol or any substance containing more than 1 per cent weight to volume of methyl alcohol,
   
3. petroleum distillates or any substance containing more than 10 per cent weight to volume of petroleum distillates,
   
4. benzene,
   
5. turpentine or any substance containing more than 10 per cent weight to volume turpentine,
   
6. boric acid or salts of boric acid, or
   
7. ethyl ether,

where the substance can, under reasonably foreseeable circumstances, become accessible to a child or where the substance is a filling that may be released on breakage or leakage.

9. Toys, equipment and other products for use by a child in learning or play that have applied to them a decorative or protective coating that contains any of the following substances:

1. lead pigments;
   
2. more than 0.5 per cent weight to weight of lead in the total solids contained in such coating;
   
3. any compound of antimony, arsenic, cadmium, selenium or barium introduced as such if more than 0.1 per cent of such compound dissolves in five per cent hydrochloric acid after stirring for ten minutes at 20^oC; or
   
4. any compound of mercury introduced as such.

10. Toys, equipment and other products for use by a child in learning or play that:

1. make or emit noise exceeding one hundred decibels measured at the distance that the product ordinarily would be from the ear of the child using it;
   
2. contain plant seeds as pellets for making noise, where the product is intended for use by a child of less than three years of age; or
   
3. contain plant seeds as stuffing material.

11. Kite strings made of a material that is a conductor of electricity.

12. [Deleted, SOR/2001-270, s. 2]

13. Products made in whole or in part of textile fibres and designed for use on a pillow or on a bed, cot, crib or other furniture designed to be used for sleeping that, when tested in accordance with method D1230-61, the Standard Method of Test for Flammability of Clothing Textiles, a standard of the American Society for Testing and Materials, have a time of flame spread of:

1. 7 seconds or less, where the products do not have a raised fibre surface; or
   
2. 7 seconds or less, where the products have a raised fibre surface and exhibit ignition or fusion of their base fibres.

14. Products for babies, including teethers, soothers and pacifiers, that are put in the mouth when used and that contain a filling that has in it a viable micro-organism.

15. Structural devices that position feeding bottles to enable babies to feed themselves therefrom while unattended.

16. Textile fibre products that are to be worn on the person and that contain asbestos fibres, other than products that are:

1. designed for the purpose of affording protection from fire or heat hazards; and
   
2. constructed in a way that ensures that the asbestos fibres will not, on reasonably foreseeable use, become separated from the products.

17. (1) Bathtub enclosures, shower doors and storm doors for household use that are made of glass or contain a pane of glass, which glass is not safety glass within the meaning of the Safety Glass Regulations.

(2) Exterior doors for household use, other than storm doors, that:

1. are made of glass that is not safety glass within the meaning of the Safety Glass Regulations; or
   
2. contain a pane of glass exceeding 5 square feet in area that is not safety glass within the meaning of the Safety Glass Regulations and the lowest edge of which is less than 3 feet from the bottom edge of the door.

18. Pencils and artists' brushes that have applied to them a decorative or protective coating that, when dry, contains more than 0.5 per cent weight to weight of lead, as determined in accordance with test method 1-GP-500.1 of the Canadian Government Specifications Board, published in December, 1973.

19. [Deleted, SOR/89-256, s. 1]

20. Products for protecting the face of ice hockey and box lacrosse players that do not meet the requirements of Standard CAN 3-Z262.2-M78, Face Protectors for Ice Hockey and Box Lacrosse Players, a standard of the Canadian Standards Association, published in English in December, 1978 and in French in June, 1979.

21. Toys, equipment and other products for use in blowing balloons by a child that contain any aromatic, aliphatic or any other organic solvent, which solvent or any vapour therefrom may, during or as a result of the normal use of the product, be released directly into the mouth.

22. [Deleted, SOR/2001-270, s. 3]

23. Disposable metal containers that contain a pressurizing fluid composed in whole or in part of vinyl chloride and that are designed to release pressurized contents by the use of a manually operated valve that forms an integral part of the container.

24. [Deleted, SOR/93-235, s. 2]

25. [Deleted, SOR/2001-270, s. 4]

26. Liquids containing polychlorinated biphenyls for use in microscopy, including immersion oils but not including refractive index oils.

27. Kites that are, or contain any decorative or functional part or component that is, made of uninsulated metal that:

1. has a maximum linear dimension in excess of 150 mm (6 inches), or
   
2. is plated or otherwise coated with a conductive film whose maximum linear dimension exceeds 150 mm (6 inches),

and that is separated from adjacent conductive areas by a non-conductive area of less than 50 mm (2 inches).

28. Products that are composed of or contain actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, cummingtonite, tremolite or any other type of asbestos and that are:

1. for use by a child in learning or play and made in such a way that asbestos may become separated from the products;
   
2. for use in modelling or sculpture;
   
3. dry-wall joint cements or compounds or spackling or patching compounds that are:
   
   1. for use in construction, repairs or renovations, and
      
   2. made in such a way that airborne asbestos may become separated from the products during the preparation of the products, other than preparation at the manufacturing level, or during the application of the products or at any time thereafter up to and including the repair and removal of the products; or
      
4. for use in simulating ashes or embers.

29. Candles that are designed in such a manner that, when lighted and subsequently extinguished by any means, they re-ignite spontaneously.

30. Products made in whole or in part of textile fibres, intended for use as wearing apparel, that are treated with or contain tris (2,3 dibromopropyl) phosphate as a single substance or as part of a chemical compound.

31. Any substance used to induce sneezing, whether or not called "sneezing powder", that contains:

1. 3,3 -dimethoxybenzidine (4,4'-diamino-3,3'-dimethoxybiphenyl) or any of its salts:
   
2. plant products derived from the genera Helleborus (hellebore), Veratrum album (white hellebore) or Quillaia (Panama Wood);
   
3. protoveratrine or veratrine; or
   
4. any isomer of nitrobenzaldehyde.

32. Cutting oils and cutting fluids, for use in lubricating and cooling the cutting area in machining operations, that contain more than 50 micrograms per gram of any nitrite, when monoethanolamine, diethanolamine or triethanolamine is also present.

33. Audible signal appliances, control units, smoke detectors and heat detectors for use in household fire alarm systems and smoke alarms for household use that do not meet the applicable requirements of ULC-S525-1978, Standard for Audible Signal Appliances for Fire Alarm Systems, ULC-S527-1978, Standard for Control Units for Fire Alarm Systems, ULC-S529-1978, Standard for Smoke Detectors for Fire Alarm Systems, ULC-S530-1978, Standard for Heat Actuated Fire Detectors for Fire Alarm Systems and ULC-S531-1978, Standard for Smoke Alarms, published by Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada.

34. Urea Formaldehyde based thermal insulation, foamed in place, used to insulate buildings.

35. Devices for use in motor vehicles for the purpose of restraining infants, which devices do not meet the requirements of Schedule 4 to the Motor Vehicle Restraint Systems and Booster Cushions Safety Regulations.

36. Any type of mechanism that:

1. resembles or is intended to resemble a bomb;
   
2. is composed of a clock attached to or intended to be attached to an object that simulates an explosive, as defined in the Explosives Act; and
   
3. is advertised, sold or imported as a consumer product.

37. Products, other than products included in items 16 and 28 of this Part, that are packaged as consumer products and that are composed of:

1. asbestos fibres, including actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite, cummingtonite and tremolite; or
   
2. fibrous erionite.

38. [Deleted, SOR/2001-270, s. 5]

39. Lawn darts with elongated tips.

40. Asbestos products that are destined for application by spraying, other than products that are:

1. included in items 16, 28 and 37 of this Part; or
   
2. a mixture of asbestos fibres and bituminous or resinous based binding materials where the fibres are encapsulated with the binder during spraying and the resulting materials are not friable after drying.

Interpretation / Discussion of Part I of Schedule I

As set out in subsection 4(1) of the HPA, no person shall advertise, sell or import a prohibited product. A prohibited product is any product, material or substance included in Part I of Schedule I to the HPA.