Glenn Trout is president and CEO of VelocityEHS, the global leader in cloud environment, health, safety (EHS) and sustainability software. To learn more about VelocityEHS and the ways its MSDSonline Chemical Management solutions can help you manage your chemical inventory and reach your EHS goals faster, visit www.EHS.com.
The larger your workforce, the harder it is to keep everyone on the same page and ensure the health and safety of your employees. That’s why so many companies today turn to EHS software to centralize and standardize the management of their people and critical EHS tasks.
Back in 2012, OSHA aligned its Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom or HCS) with Revision 3 of the United Nation’s Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling (GHS), which resulted in the current HazCom 2012 Standard.
If an employee were to be injured today by a hazardous chemical in your facility, how confident are you that the employee (or anyone) could locate the safety data sheet in a reasonable amount of time?
ISHN’s May issue introduced OSHA’s revised Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom 2012), the agency’s de facto adoption of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
Perhaps the primary reason MSDS compliance is such a headache is the monotonous management of large amounts of paper documents. Paper-based MSDS management systems can be costly, cumbersome and they require time and resources.
