Exercise # 1: Take a moment to write down your own workplace
examples. (What do you work with or what is present in the workplace?)

Write your examples on a notepad.

Your workplace examples could include products such as gasoline,
diesel, grease, lubricants etc. Cleaning Products, such as toilet bowl
cleaner, bleach, window washer etc. From the office could be ink jet
toner cartridges, liquid paper, cleaners. General Maintenance
Products such as Propane, Oxygen, Acetylene, solvents, paints,
degreasers etc. Construction Products such as silica, asbestos,
asphalt, paints, thinners, tar and dusts. Don’t forget your biological
hazards as well, urine, feces, animals, rodents, people coming to work
sick etc.
The purpose of this exercise is to determine what you are working
with sometimes daily, regularly, or even sometimes not too often.
Some may not work with these materials at all but they are present in
the workplace and therefore everyone may be exposed in some
manner, for example if there was a fire or a chemical release.