What is WHMIS?

WHMIS stands for Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System. It is a nationwide system to provide information on hazardous materials used in the workplace. WHMIS affects workers, employers, suppliers, and regulators. Nova Scotia’s WHMIS Regulations place duties at any workplace covered by the Occupational Health and Safety Act where hazardous materials are used, stored, or handled.

WHMIS Classifications

WHMIS uses classifications, or classes, to group chemicals with similar properties or hazards. The Controlled Products Regulations specifies the criteria used to place materials within each classification. There are six (6) classes although several classes have divisions or subdivisions.

Re-usability of H5P content is one of the key ingredients that makes this technology useful. In this tutorial, we'll cover some of the basics on how to re-use templates provided by Learnful to speed up your H5P content creation.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we'll be using the Architecture Template provided by Learnful.

Topics we'll cover:

• Creating a copy of the template for our own use
• Editing the template to make it fit our needs
• Licensing and attributing the original work
• Creating our own template from this template

The purpose of templates

First, a little bit about templates. Templates provide a framework or foundation for our content. Templates can provide design and structure queues, as well as graphic assets to speed up our content creation.

The idea of templates is that you simply need to swap out the content with your own, and your done!

Copying the Template

Below you'll find an h5p course presentation titled "Architecture Template". We'll be using and customizing this template in this tutorial.

Step 2: Creating a copy of our own

In this step we'll Paste the template we just copied thereby creating our own unique copy of the template.

Let's launch the h5p editor and find the paste button. Clicking on the Paste button will create a new h5p resource using the template.

Create new h5p content (opens in a new tab)