A (material) safety data sheet (M)SDS is an important component of product stewardship, occupational safety, health and environmental stewardship. It is intended to provide workers and emergency personnel with procedures for handling or working with that substance in a safe manner and includes information such as physical data (melting point, boiling point, flash point, etc.), toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipment and spill-handling procedures.
If you manufacture, store, distribute, use or import chemical products you are required to be compliant with multiple regulatory agencies.
Employer are required to review and communicate all known physical and health hazards of each chemical and determine if they are hazardous.
Chemical manufacturers and distributors are required to have a process in place to collect all this information and in turn generate a safety data sheet for communication along the supply chain. Once available the safety data sheet must be made available to every downstream user including your employees.
We offer a range of (M)SDS services which include:
We utilize experienced regulatory experts who use advanced authoring technology to ensure your (M)SDS's comply with all local, national and international regulations, including 16-section GHS SDS, OSHA, WHMIS, EU, NAFTA and other global formats.
All off our SDS's under go a stringent QA review process to ensure they are both 100% accurate and compliant.
We offer fully globally compliant SDS, Safety Data Sheets, compliant with the new Global Specification GHS rev04, now accepted worldwide, and mandated in the USA by 2015.
Chemical regulatory compliance begins with knowing what chemicals are actually in your facility and the hazards associated with each. Developing an effective chemical safety program without an accurate chemical list is costly and futile. We provide tailored audit programs including:
Let our professionals conduct a thorough onsite inventory audit to identify the chemicals that are present at your facility and the hazards associated with each.
Our audits provide the foundation to improve:
We collect data including quantity on hand, Sku locations, shelf life, supplier etc. We also validate if chemical inventory is being stored correctly and required procedures are in place and being followed by all employees who come into contact with the chemicals.
Our inventory audits provides the foundation to support incremental services such as product standardization and rationalization which can result in significant acquisition cost reductions to our clients.
Our compliance audits will validate your existing procedures and work instructions conformance to required regional and global legislation. Compliance audits capture and review existing processes and validate these against the required legislation.
We have the capability to develop and implement tailored compliance programs to supporting both regional and global regulations.
Mandates are typically intended to protect the environment and those who come into contact with chemicals and products. Manufacturers spend considerable time and effort to ensure their products comply with these mandates. Yet many companies approach to ensuring compliance with these mandates leave them at risk of non-compliance potentially resulting in an inability to sell in a global market, blocked shipments, recalls and the associated loss of revenue.
Companies that do not pay attention to product compliance risk thousands or millions in lost revenues and fines associated with violations. A developed compliance program can mitigate this risk.
We can build compliance solutions from scratch, or evaluate what currently exists and refine and standardize to create a best practice solution for a corporation or industry sector.
The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, was developed by the United Nations as a way to bring into agreement the chemical regulations and standards of different countries. In 2012, OSHA implemented changes to integrate components of GHS into the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard in order to come into alignment with the world standard.
GHS is expected to:
There are two major areas of change to the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard are:
Facilities that have hazardous materials must train employees under the new Hazardous Communication Standard by Dec 1, 2013. This includes training on new Safety Data Sheet “SDS’s”(formally known as an MSDS), new standards on pictograms and other labeling changes. In addition companies must ensure that employees comprehend the hazards associated with each chemical an employee may be exposed to in their work place. Anytime a new hazard is introduced into the work place employees must be re-trained.
Facilities that manufacture a hazardous material must now modify their labels and MSDS’s to meet the GHS requirements, including updating their pictograms to meet the new standard by 2015.
We can provide training courses that meet the needs of all employees covering the new OSHA GHS training requirements. Courses are tailored and typically consist of the following:
The cost of this training is competitively priced with each user receiving a certification on completion of the course.
We can provide onsite training tailored to a customer’s specific requirements and hold frequent webinars covering GHS and changes to global legislation explained in an understandable way. If you require specific training please contact us for more information.
We provide services to create a chemical catalog optimized to meet each customer’s objectives. This can include standardization, rationalization and categorization of products and the identification of target suppliers to support RFQ activity and procurement initiatives.
Our services range from identifying duplicate inventory to enhancing data with additional classifications on an item-by-item basis. We review and correct existing data add industry, customers specific and regulatory classifications and to meet individual customer objectives such as reducing total acquisition cost.
Each project and scope of work is based upon the state of your current data and required future business and regulatory requirements.
Customer benefits include:
We create a framework around all of your chemicals, an optimized catalog allowing you to reduce products, vendors and the overall cost associated with hazardous chemicals.
We provide customers services to support the management of chemical data and information supporting compliance, control and communication to employees. Since customers typically have a combination of in house developed, or market acquired solution, each solution we design is configured to meet an individual customer's requirement.
Our objective is to provide our clients a cost effective, compliant solution which can accessed by all employees.
We know the technology providers in the market place and have internal expertise allowing us to provide each customer dedicated solution tailored to meet an agreed specification .
