The Methanol Jug: WHMIS Refresher

The brief

Generic WHMIS refreshers get clicked through every year, because they could belong to any company. Kestrel Ridge crews handle methanol every winter to thaw frozen flowlines, and the real risk isn't the labelled drum. It's the unlabelled jug someone fills to save a walk. The refresher needed to hang the rules on that moment, so they couldn't be swapped onto any other company.

What learners can do after

• Name the three parts of WHMIS: labels, Safety Data Sheets and training
• Read a supplier label: product, signal word, pictograms and hazard statements
• Put a workplace label on any product decanted from its supplier container
• Find the four SDS sections a field hand needs: hazards, first aid, firefighting and PPE
• Treat an unlabelled container as unknown: don't use it, report it, identify it first

How we built it

One jug runs the whole refresher. At minus thirty the flowline on Pad 7 freezes, and Ryan fills a plain jug of methanol from the drum and sets it on the tailgate with no label. Jace asks what's in it. Ryan knows; the night crew won't. From there the course reads the drum's supplier label, labels the jug, finds the SDS in the doghouse, and shows why methanol is more dangerous than it looks.

Every rule was checked against WHMIS and the Alberta OHS Code before scripting, with a sources table in the script. The yearly refresher is framed as company policy, not law. It reuses the cast, lease set, motion rules and knowledge-check format from The Five-Minute Pause, so a refresher costs a fraction of the first module.

1. 1
   Read the label
   Q4
2. 2
   Label what you decant
   Q1Q2
3. 3
   Find the SDS
   Q3
4. 4
   Protect yourself
   Q5

Try the knowledge check

Two checks run inside the video, and the third runs in the LMS quiz afterwards. In your LMS, the score is recorded automatically through SCORM 1.2.

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