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Foreword Welcome to Chemical Watch’s second Chemicals Management Software Guide. In publishing it, we are continuing to respond to the growing use of software to improve chemical management programmes, while also presenting data on what it is currently being used for and future plans for investment.

To this end, we carried out a survey (pages 4-7) about how chemical companies and downstream users are doing that and there are also five articles about key functions that software addresses, plus another on the emerging technology of blockchain.

The need for better supply chain software is driven, ultimately, by regulations that oblige the supply chain to communicate more with itself, both up- and downstream.

Downstream customers are now likely to ask questions of their suppliers about a particular regulation, even if they themselves are not directly affected by it. Suppliers have to be ready to respond.

As our first article (pages 9-11) shows, many software companies and service suppliers are working to improve the transparency and visibility of the supply chain by collecting, verifying and managing supplier documentation.

This can take place collaboratively across a whole industry or at a simpler one-to-one level.

As in other fields, the software has to tread a fine line between being universally valid and customisable to specific needs, but it also has uses beyond compliance, notably in R&D and product redesign.

There is a wide array of software platforms for health, safety and environment (HSE) tasks, from basic incident management, to full risk assessment and compliance management and everything else in between. The second article, on pages 13-15, looks in particular at management of change (MOC) and hazard communication software, while also considering the difficulties of implementing globally integrated systems when regulations and measurement metrics vary so much across the world.

Reporting requirements are another major challenge.

Not the least of this is the variable way global standards are interpreted across the world, despite the Globally Harmonised System (GHS) and sometimes because of it.

Software is being developed to address these problems by keeping users totally up-to-date with regulatory developments (pages 16-18) but any system is only as good as the data going into it. A key challenge is striking

the right balance between making the system user-friendly, while still coping with the extreme complexity of regulation.

Proving compliance to regulators and other stakeholders in terms of transparency, product stewardship, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), as well as the letter of regulations, is another increasingly important function of chemical management software.

In another article (pages 20-21), we look at how software can be embedded in product safety and stewardship processes, automatically generating the necessary documentation. This can have further advantages in driving cross-functional efficiencies, monitoring the supply chain and responding proactively to both customer demands and regulatory changes.

We, also look at the highly specialised field of safety data sheet (SDS) authoring systems and how to choose the right one for a business’s specific needs to ensure its documentation is fully compliant (pages 23-25).

This has never been so complex and it is clear that a structured project, with clearly defined internal ownership, is essential to making it work. The focus here is on practical advice to identify current and future needs, understand the company’s internal capabilities, select the right vendor and test the system out before buying.

Finally, we cover one of the exciting technologies that is emerging to address some of the challenges that have arisen from technology itself, as well as the growth in regulation and consumer pressure (pages 27-28).

Blockchain is a digital record-keeping system that enables more records to be created and fast-tracked. It is also said to improve data security, control and transparency.

This technology is not the answer to everyone’s prayers, nor, as our survey shows, is it yet very high on service providers’ radar screens. However, it is definitely going to be one to watch in the coming years.

We hope you enjoy reading the articles and find the listings useful.

Dr Andrew Warmington Editor - Chemicals Management Software Guide Chemical Watch would like to thank its sponsor, Sphera Solutions for its sponsorship of this Guide. You can view their profile on page 51.

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Contents Introduction ..............................................................................

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Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Chemical and

More links in the chain............................................................

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Workplace Safety - Verisk 3E ...................................................

Safety from software ..............................................................

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Reporting requirements made easier...................................

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Showing compliance through software...............................

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Getting it right on safety data sheets....................................

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New kid on the block.................................................................

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Glossary........................................................................................

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Profiles......................................................................

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Comply Plus - Sphera ...............................................................

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ALMEGO® - Chymeia .................................................................

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Product Supply Chain Intelligence - UL ................................

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CHEMDOX® - Chemdox ...........................................................

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Prometheus - Hibiscus-PLC ....................................................

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ChemGes - DR-Software .........................................................

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PubliChem - Lisam Systems ...................................................

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Chesar - Echa .............................................................................

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SAP EHS consultancy, support, maitenance

Cority Chemical Management for EHSQ - Cority................

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and training - eSpheres ............................................................

efam (Environmental Fate Automated Modelling) - knoell

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SAP solutions for product compliance and environment,

element1 - H2 Compliance .....................................................

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ExESS - Lisam Systems ...........................................................

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Fasim 2.1 - Philips Innovation Services ................................

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gComply - Decernis .................................................................

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Gensuite SDS Systems - Gensuite ........................................

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GeSi³ - GeSi Software GmbH .................................................

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Global Data Brokerage Platform - REACH Centrum, and ERM Group company .......................................................

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Global MSDS Solutions & Hazmix® - GlobalMSDS .............

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Horizon Scanning - Decernis ..................................................

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Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Product Safety & Stewardship - Verisk 3E ............................................................

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Label Enterprise - Hibiscus-PLC .............................................

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MSDSonline SDS/Chemical Management solution VelocityEHS ................................................................................

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Product Stewardship Services and Solutions - CGI ..........

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Product Stewardship with Intelligent Authoring &

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SciveraLENS - Scivera ..............................................................

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SiteHawk Communicator - SiteHawk ....................................

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Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) Tool - Ecetoc ................

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ToxFMD Screened Chemistry™ Library - ToxServices LLC

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Veeva RegulatoryOne - Veeva Systems Inc .........................

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Yordas Hive - Yordas Group ....................................................

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Introduction Why are chemicals companies and downstream users investing in chemical management software?

This is the second Chemicals Management Software Guide to be published by Chemical Watch, following the success of the launch edition in 2017. We developed the product because we saw a clear customer need for it.

The compliance demands placed on chemicals companies and downstream users are becoming more extensive and complex, and at the same time, the number of suppliers and the variety of products they offer are probably expanding even faster.

The chemicals industry does not need instruction from anyone on the need for safety. This is – well, pick your cliché – both part of the DNA of the industry and its licence to operate. Traditional safety mechanisms have been built into the industry for generations and the software revolution has impacted them as it has just about every other industrial function.

Chemical management software today, however, is about much more than that. It also encompasses the responsibilities imposed on the industry all the way up and down the value chain. Thus it is also of interest to downstream customers, government agencies, service providers, law firms and potentially everyone who interacts with the chemicals industry. In other words, potentially almost everyone, although these categories account for the vast majority of companies using it at present.

corresponded with the editorial articles in the guide. All of these concepts remain important, but we have redirected our coverage slightly this year to focus on the needs the software actually addresses. Thus, this edition of the guide has five main articles covering software for: • supply chain management; • regulatory compliance; • chemical reporting requirements; • managing EHS obligations; and • safety data sheet (SDS) authoring; So, who is investing in the software and why? Chemical Watch carried out a survey of 328 firms active in and around the chemicals industry, asking them about their current investments and future plans relating to chemical management software.

Figure 1 – Have you used a software system (including third party) to support your chemicals management programme in the past three years, by size and type of organisation?

Large (over 250 employees)

Medium (50-250 employees)

Small (less than 50 employees)

All organisations 67% 74% 67%

The advantages software systems bring are, broadly speaking, the same that come from any automated function that replaces interactions between multiple human brains in different locations. They are, however, an aid to rather than a substitute for applied human intelligence – rather like a satellite navigation device is not meant to be a substitute for road sense and careful driving.

50% Downstream users 64% 73% 57% 23% Chemical companies

Compliance might not be a glamorous function, but it is essential and increasingly recognised as such.

Making mistakes can have serious, even catastrophic, consequences for a company, its reputation, its workers and the wider community, not to mention the industry as a whole. Users of chemicals who may, in the past, not have needed to be so aware of that fact now most certainly do.

And software cannot just be ‘good enough’, any more than the traditional processes of the industry can be.

Last year, we examined the software available in four broad categories of operational risk, environmental performance, product stewardship and process safety, which broadly

All sizes

72% 79% 73% 30% Others, including service providers 66% 66% 73% 64% 0

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These companies varied considerably in size, though most (60%) were defined as large, with over 250 employees and a further 22% were medium-sized, with 50-250 employees.

Small (<50 employees) companies accounted for the remaining 18%.

The broad make-up of those participating in the survey was similar to last year’s, in that most defined their company’s main area of activity as chemicals, oil and energy (29%) or downstream users (40%). The rest comprised: • service providers including legal services (18%); • government and agencies (4%); • trade associations, public relations firms and similar (3%); and • others (6%).

There were marked differences between these groups when they were asked if they had used a software system (including third party) to support their chemicals management programme in the past three years. Over two thirds (67%) had done so.

Figure 1 shows the percentage of firms by size and types of organisation to have invested. Large companies, regardless of their area of activity, remain the biggest users of these systems. Overall, 74% of large companies had used software in the past three years, rising to 79% among the chemical companies. Of medium-sized companies, 67% had invested, but the figure falls to 50% among small companies.

Conversely, where downstream users had more than one system, they were more likely to have integrated them. While 26-27% of companies in each organisational category had fully integrated their systems, 57% of chemical companies had not integrated any of them, as opposed to only 44% of downstream users. This may indicate a longer-established but less systematic approach to the acquisition of software by chemical manufacturers than their customers, who have come later to this and been able to think more holistically about it.

Companies have many different means of integrating software too. While the commonest way was to use an in-house team (cited by 44% of all companies), this method was not used by a clear majority in any organisational category. Consulting services and third party implementation were each used by 11% of the companies responding and 27% of them do not integrate their systems at all, with the ‘other’ category being least likely to do so (33%).

It is much clearer what kind of software users regard as most critical to their business. Asked how important different IT systems are to their current chemicals management programme, 79% described regulatory

Figure 2 – How many software applications do you currently use to support your chemicals management and control programme?

This is not surprising in itself: larger companies have more complex systems to manage and higher reputational risks to concern them. Even so, compliance is a concern for the whole industry and becoming more so with every passing year.

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In the individual categories, 72% of those active in chemicals, oil and energy have invested in software for chemical management in the past three years. The figures were 70% for service providers, 64% for downstream users and 66% for all ‘others’. Asked if they were considering implementing this software in the next 12 months, 48% said that they were. This rose to 52% among service providers and others, with 49% of chemical companies and 45% of downstream users saying the same.

Figure 2 shows the number of software programmes respondents said that they are currently using for chemical management. Naturally, the chemical companies have the most diverse array of systems, with 20% of them using more than four. However, the commonest answer in all categories and overall were one (39%), then two (23%).

The ‘others’ category was proportionately most likely to have two or fewer systems.

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compliance systems as ‘very important’ and 18% called them ‘somewhat important’. Next came hazard communication (60% and 30% respectively), followed some way behind by chemical safety assessment (52% and 34%) and finally product stewardship (43% and 34%).

Figure 3 shows in full detail how respondents viewed different sub-categories in terms of their importance in their current chemicals management programmes. The most important, pretty much in line with the 2017 figures, were regulatory compliance systems, particularly for: • data management (regulatory lists, substance data); • product compliance; • regulatory management; and • compliance assurance.

These trends were similar between chemical companies and downstream users, with one major difference. The former were far more likely than the latter to see hazard communication software as ‘very important’ (71% v 47%), reflecting the considerably greater obligations on chemical suppliers to communicate with the authorities and wider stakeholders on the hazards of their products.

In other fields, labelling, hazard assessment and safety data sheet management scored highly. Software for product lifecycle management (PLM) and corporate

Figure 3 – How important are the following software functions to your current chemicals management programme?

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Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

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Compliance assurance

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sustainability reporting (CSR) still seems to be a relatively hard sell, but even for these, more than half regard them as ‘very important’ or ‘important’. There is no category for which more than 25% of respondents had no use at all.

• • • •

It seems clear enough, then, that just about every software function available on the market is broadly seen as useful, at the very least. The chemicals industry and its customers now see having the right software as essential, not just useful, to getting the regulatory compliance function.

Compliance software is there to help chemicals companies and their downstream users manage their risks and obligations better, in a timely manner and in a more costeffective way than continuously expanding their regulatory departments. And the systems are now better than ever before. This guide can help you to find the right ones for you.

The single main factor in driving investment in software solutions was time saving. This was cited as ‘very important’ or ‘important’ by 57% and 37% respectively of all companies surveyed (Figure 4). Close behind came cost (48% and 42%), being customisable (39% and 42%) and ease of integration with existing health, safety and environment (EHS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems (30% and 45%). CSR was again bottom of the list, but even so, 59% saw it as ‘very important’ or ‘important’ and only 12% did not regard it as important at all.

R&D – 120; HSE – 87; manufacturing and QA - 81; and toxicology – 77;

Figure 4 – How important are the following factors in driving your investment in software solutions?

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That these companies need software to manage their data in the age of ‘Big Data’ and ever increasing requirements is a given. Indeed, 56% of all companies surveyed, rising to 64% among downstream users, said they had gaps in their data. As yet, however, there was little perception of blockchain as a possible aid to data management: barely 5% of respondents thought it could help them and that figure hardly varied across different kinds of organisations. That this proportion will grow sharply in time seems a safe prediction.

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And which functions are using chemicals management data that comes out of the other end? Not board members, for a start! This category ranked last of the 15 mentioned, with only 12 of the participating companies saying that people at board level used it. Marketing, advocacy and governance functions were also relatively rare users.

The most common users in total numbers were:

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More links in the chain Software is managing ever more complex tasks in supply chain communication

Ideally, companies all along the supply chain would be sharing data so that everyone would know and understand what chemical substances were in their products. The reality is very different, as supply chains are often very complex, with multiple layers, making information sharing a highly cumbersome and labour-intensive process.

Consequently, customers tend to rely on their tier one suppliers to tell them about the substances they buy and what they need to do to comply with national, regional and global regulations. The need for information is also hindered by the fact that many companies formulate or add substances to transform the initial raw material into the final end product. Data gathering can be especially complex for items like household and personal care products, which are heavily formulated.

Software companies and service suppliers are working to improve the transparency and visibility of their supply chains. Communication is key and several software packages are available that can assist companies in managing their supply chains and ensuring compliance.

Ruud Overbeek, chief of business development and strategy at US-based compliance systems company Decernis, says it is in everyone’s interest to have more automation to support people up and down the chain.

Communication, collaboration and compliance are the three major areas that he believes companies should focus on in their supply chain management.

Decernis itself offers supply chain management software that collects, manages and verifies a supplier’s compliance documentation to ensure its products meet regulatory, market or customer requirements. The tool, which is based

around a standardised questionnaire, can be used at different levels down the chain.

There is a clear move to standardise communication along the chain so that everyone understands what is required at each level. Decernis is also part of an initiative that was launched in May 2018 between chemical suppliers, including BASF, and the paper industry to standardise the collection of data. The initiative, called P&P VIS (Pulp and Paper – Value chain Information System), is hosted through the Decernis Supplier Compliance Management System and is based around a harmonised questionnaire and information transfer.

The questionnaire covers, for example, the regulatory status of a chemical and its food contact compliance, and asks whether a chemical is on the paper industry declarable substance list (PIDSL). It requires standardised answers, including comments, and provides links to detailed explanatory notes. The web-based system has been designed for easy up- and downloads to companies, reducing the time and effort for collecting and handling data.

“Suppliers to pulp and paper manufactures needed an efficient and transparent way to share important compliance and safety information along the value chain,” says Sabine Vogt, expert product stewardship dispersions and resins at BASF. There is a huge difference between paper used in the print industry and paper for packaging drugs, food and consumer products, while regulations vary from country to country. In addition, the chemicals used for papermaking are usually mixtures that include several substances, with each manufacturer having its own unique products.

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For Donovan Hornsby, vice president and corporate strategy executive with Gensuite, a cloud-based software provider, it is less about what a company can do and more about taking a risk-based approach. Even if a company is not directly impacted by a certain regulation, he says, the fact that a customer is asking about it means it has to respond. “In an ideal world, companies and their customers would understand the components of their products,” he says.

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Commission in July 2017 to support the FMD programme and compliance system roll-out in its European facilities.

The project is exploring the link between Whirlpool’s compliance system and a life-cycle analysis (LCA) tool outputting environmental and health impact targets, thus demonstrating how chemical monitoring data can drive proactive compliance. It began in July 2017 and will run through 2020, the company says.

To facilitate that flow of information, Gensuite provides a base-case capability, where a company can take a product and break it down into its components to the level required to answer customers’ questions. This is available via a web portal and uses a standardised template. For example, the company has one for the electronics industry based on the sector’s data exchange standard, IPC 1752.

UL, a global safety science company, offers integrated software packages to manufacturers and retailers to organise, analyse and share product information in order to comply with regulations and also to assist companies in developing sustainable products.

In this way, Mr Hornsby says, companies can create their own questionnaires and build in their own flexibility.

For example, they can ask for information on chemical compositions and, at the same time, request information on slave labour or conflict minerals. The goal, he says, is to contact suppliers as few times as possible and reduce the administrative burden.

Jill Oakman, director of business development and marketing at UL Product Supply Chain Intelligence, says that many major retailers are working with it to manage regulatory compliance and their own chemical policies, to reduce the hazardous substances in the products they sell. Retailers use UL PurView, she says, to gain visibility into the ingredients used in items they sell, such as personal care and cosmetic products. The software also protects the brand owner’s IP.

The real challenge for software providers and their customers, says Mr Hornsby, is identifying the commonality across regulations, all of which have their own regional nuances. “You could go bankrupt creating a perfect report for every jurisdiction around the globe. We help our customers do their reports for the most common jurisdictions, then facilitate using them in others,” he says.

One of Gensuite’s clients is home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool, which used the company’s software to develop a fully automated system to collect, monitor and assess the chemical components in its global product line.

The pilot phase of Whirlpool’s compliance system went live in Q2 2017, followed by the first automated full material disclosure (FMD) requests in Q3.

UL has also built a web-based survey tool called Supply Chain Network, so that companies can automate their responses to customers’ requests for information, replacing more traditional ways of sharing product information in Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.

This tool was developed to meet the needs of companies that are asked to provide information to thousands of customers they supply throughout the chain. During UL’s

The company concedes that collecting FMD data from its suppliers is a challenge. “Not all suppliers consistently collect material composition data throughout the multiple tiers of their own supply chain. Many claim proprietary data they are unwilling to disclose. We expect that it will take a few years to build a database of accurate and complete disclosures, including a thorough change management regime,” it states.

Whirlpool’s Critical Materials Management (CMM) team is introducing additional projects into the system during 2018, as well as expanding its FMD requests. It is also using funds from a Life Environment and Resource Efficiency grant that it, the National Technical University of Athens and Italian innovation agency T2i received from the European

A major home appliances maker uses Gensuite's system

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research, Ms Oakman says, one company reported having received 40,000 requests for information in Excel or Word in just eight months.

UL has designed the software so that, once a company has answered a specific question, the next time somebody else asks the same question, it will automatically populate the form with the answer, saving time and maintaining data quality. In addition, the software allows companies to notify supply chain constituents when changes have occurred in a formulation that may impact the regulatory or sustainability profile of the product. This is offered in multiple languages.

Adam Sawyer, who is responsible for product development and innovation at UL, says the company’s programmes are all built on the same platform, which can be marketed for different audiences. This integrated platform, he explains, sits on a large and complex regulatory engine with more than 6,000 regulations from over 130 countries. Using this database, the platform can analyse product information and derive data, which is turned into product insights.

Mr Sawyer believes the chemical industry is behind other sectors in the way it collects and manages data.

“This is understandable when you consider the high degree of importance to these companies of protecting confidential business information,” he adds. In his view, compliance across the supply chain has become high profile for companies operating in the chemical space and there will be a fast and hard push in the area of product transparency over the next couple of years.

This push will not be restricted to just compliance.

Product supply chain transparency will allow companies to stay ahead of competition and help to inform the innovation process. This information can be useful in the early stages of R&D or in re-design phases of products to

allow for more proactive approaches using prediction and analysis to gain insight into product attributes such as sustainability, performance and overall market risk, Mr Sawyer says.

Blockchain is an evolving technology that could potentially transform supply chains. People can use blockchain to upload certificates for compliance and access a transaction throughout the chain. It can also allow users to trace products back to origin but, cautions Steven Banker, vice president of supply chain management at ARC Advisory Group, the origin will still need third-party checking and certification to ensure that people are doing what they claim.

Gensuite’s Mr Hornsby says blockchain is a promising technology and some customers are already looking at the cryptographic system to simplify their processes. Gensuite is a member of the Responsible Minerals Initiative, which has set up a working group on blockchain with an initial focus on contracts. The initiative is also trying to address the problem of transparency in terms of materials going into making products and tracing them from the country of origin onward.

Mr Hornsby admits this is a challenge. “As products flow through the supply chain, people manipulate them and turn them into something else. It is a highly complicated problem to address the value of blockchain and entirely depends on which groups and entities are involved at the start. It will take a critical mass of suppliers to make it happen,” he says.

The trend towards automation will undoubtedly gather pace as global regulations and demands from retailers and consumers continue to proliferate. All players in the supply chain can only benefit as standardised tools and communication become more readily available.

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Safety from software The right software is essential to managing EHS obligations in the chemicals industry

Today’s safety and facility managers have a plethora of software platforms to choose from for tackling environment, health and safety (EHS) tasks. There is software for everything from incident management and corrective actions through to risk assessment and compliance management, all of which can be mixed and matched, depending on a company’s specific risk profile and mitigation plans.

For operations involving highly hazardous chemicals, Matt Airhart, president of VelocityEHS Canada, recommends management of change (MOC) software.

“It’s particularly important and very useful for managing process safety,” he says.

“Its benefit is the way it allows facility managers, reviewing proposed changes to processes, to identify and mitigate risks before the changes are completed. MOC software makes it easier to manage all requests and approvals within a workflow and provides a visibility that makes it less likely that either temporary or permanent changes can be made without appropriate review and risk mitigation.”

Mr Airhart adds that facility managers cannot begin to address chemical risks unless they have the kind of visibility, control and understanding of their chemical inventory that comes from hazard communication software. “This is especially important for large chemical facilities, to help manage the vast number of safety data sheets (SDSs) they maintain and to keep their chemical inventories up to date,” he says.

When it comes to software designed to help maintain safety and mitigate risk, providers have seen several trends come to the forefront over recent years. Customers

are now looking for software that is mobile-friendly and combines the features they need in one system. They are also looking for simplicity and ease of use.

“We’re seeing a real shift in the marketplace, where people want all of their software in one system that’s easy to access and use – so that they can ensure user adoption,” explains Ian Cohen, product marketing manager for environmental, safety and sustainability solutions at EHS software supplier Cority.

“Regulatory oversight, especially for large multinationals, has also driven them to seek off-the-shelf solutions, rather than continue managing these requirements with spreadsheets, homegrown systems and emails.”

What’s driving adoption?

Understandably, providers consider regulations to be one of the biggest drivers for the adoption of EHS software.

There are many such laws, notably the REACH, Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations in the EU and TSCA and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) in the US – but it is more a case of regulatory complexity growing and information management software helping companies navigate these challenges, in their view.

Interestingly, however, companies look at things differently. At a recent customer advisory board event, Kimberley Williams, chief sales and marketing officer at SDS management firm SiteHawk, asked customers, from large Fortune 100 companies across the manufacturing, automotive, textiles and pharmaceuticals sectors, whether compliance was their primary driver. The answer was ‘no’.

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“They said their aim is to provide the safest workplace possible for their employees and ensure their products are safe and made to the highest quality. They consider regulatory compliance a by-product of that,” she says.

“I thought that was a fascinating answer from a group of highly regulated organisations.”

Mr Cohen points out that various stakeholder groups are pushing for improved management of chemicals and ultimately, more green chemistry, which is viewed by many as safer. “These include unions and worker councils, environmental NGOs and shareholders who’ve realised that there are large risks related to environmental and occupational health events, which has a direct impact on the value of their shares. They’re looking for more transparency and an understanding of how the C-suite is managing these risks in the short and long term,” he says.

Globally integrated approach When it comes to maintaining safety and mitigating risk there are lots of benefits to implementing a globally integrated approach. As data from various sources – historically stored in siloed systems – is brought together in one centralised software platform, real-time visibility is improved, providing efficiency gains and allowing people to make informed decisions as events unfold.

However, there are also many challenges in bringing together all the EHS processes of a multinational company.

There needs to be consideration of the different regions’ regulations, how company culture differs from location to location and also achieving buy-in from all levels of the organisation. That is no easy task.

“One challenge to effective global software deployment is the variability of EHS regulations from region to region and how quickly each of those laws can change,” says Mr Airhart. “In a given year, there may be thousands of regulatory changes over hundreds of jurisdictions. It takes real focus to build a compliance framework that encompasses all of the jurisdictions relevant to your business, and a sustainable, flexible software platform to maintain that framework as the regulations change.”

Likewise, he adds, it requires an elegant software design to capture the wide variety of EHS metrics used to track on energy and water use, waste generation and greenhouse gas emissions around the world, in the primary languages of those workforces, and to then automatically perform the unit calculations necessary to create a unified report.

Safety managers have been early adopters of wearable technologies

the direct and indirect value associated with the work EHS teams do and can demonstrate the positive effect they have on the bottom line and brand reputation.

Therefore, there is a more positive and proactive view on ensuring engagement of EHS software across the business. If the software is chosen and implemented well, all staff will use it. If not, it can have the opposite effect, leading to a loss of buy-in.

“It’s really important to be selective about your choice of software and there are three characteristics to look out for: out of the box, mobile and multi-tenant, also known as Software as a Service (Saas) or ‘true cloud solutions’,” says Mr Airhart.

According to him, simple and flexible ‘out of the box’ platforms can be implemented faster and require less training, meaning they are more likely to be used. Mobile maturing, he adds, makes every employee a source of real-time information and a point of action for carrying out tasks.

Staff engagement

Scott Gaddis, practice leader for EHS at Intelex Technologies, agrees. He believes mobile applications on devices such as smartphones foster touchpoints much deeper in the organisation. Employees stay engaged on the go by getting needed information from the platform and at times are asked to give back information that reduces risks, improves the EHS process and increases regulatory compliance, he notes.

Thanks to technology and changing attitudes, companies are now seeing EHS teams for their value rather than as the cost of doing business. Companies are able to calculate

“For example, today we can deliver informational bulletins to workers regarding subjects important to the local or enterprise EHS team,” Mr Gaddis says. “It’s common to get

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back a ‘thumbs up’, letting the EHS practitioner know the information was understood.

temperature, air quality, humidity and noise, and to provide employees feedback when conditions become unsafe.”

“Then it’s validated when the practitioner sends information back, along with a picture of a hazard found because he or she learned from the engagement bulletin. That’s a very simple but real example of a game changer in increasing worker engagement and fostering EHS partnership and collaboration.”

All the data collected needs to be analysed, which is why the role of big data analytics is paramount. “Data analytics are so important. Facilities that value data will use analysis to make the workplace safer,” notes Mrs Williams.

As for SaaS, Mr Airhart believes such offerings are generally more affordable and easier to implement, and can be updated quickly. Done right, he says, cloud solutions can be more secure than what many customers can do for themselves on their own servers. “Plus centralisation of the platform makes it easily accessible by all employees, helps ensure data accuracy and drives buy-in of EHS programmes across the organisation.”

Technological advancements As EHS challenges evolve, so does the technology developed to help manage them. The Internet of Things (IoT), big data and analytics are now all piquing interest within the EHS sector. Connected devices are helping to collect and exchange EHS data, providing real-time environmental monitoring.

Examples, Mr Gaddis says, include wearables that can monitor workers in certain environments, drones that can watch for tank leaks and security fencing that can inform staff of an intruder.

“Safety managers are definitely early adopters of IoT, especially wearables, so they can collect as much data on how employees work and really zero in on why incidents occur,” adds Mr Cohen.

“They’re looking at smart glasses to measure eye movement to determine if someone is fatigued or unfocused, connected hard hats to measure impacts to the head to ensure employees don’t have undiagnosed concussions, fatigue bands, monitors that measure

“It’s absolutely changing things, as they have more capabilities thanks to bringing all the different data sources together and analysing everything. But it’s still a very new concept and they’re not there yet. People in this industry are just beginning to get their heads around what analytics can do for them.”

Get what you need Mr Airhart points out that we should be careful about focusing on “trends and buzzwords” too much, as many facilities are still managing EHS systems using desktop applications, legacy-based software systems and even paper documents like spreadsheets and checklists.

“Focusing on the latest solutions versus the most needed creates inefficiency and gaps in awareness, which could in turn create risks. The most important questions for software of any kind is not whether it represents the ‘latest and greatest’ out there, but rather what kind of improvement it can make to EHS management and culture,” he advises.

What it really comes down to, he says, is that it is more important to get the EHS software you need rather than the EHS software you want. He recommends avoiding the temptation to get highly configured solutions that will require extensive training, have longer implementation timeframes and result in reduced participation.

“Look for software that meet your needs out of the box, built and based on best practices and insights from real EHS professionals. You want solutions that function as an integrated platform, and that offer mobile capability for some of the really important tasks. You’ll have happier, safer employees and stronger EHS management,” he concludes.

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Reporting requirements made easier Software suppliers are working to make ever-increasing global demands for chemical reporting more straightforward

Chemical reporting obligations are becoming ever more onerous, particularly for multinational businesses, with the volume of requirements steadily growing and becoming increasingly complex.

Francis Trudeau, solution manager at risk management software specialist Sphera, says the main regulatory challenge for companies producing or using chemicals is the significant variation in how global standards are interpreted across the world. “Country-specific differences in the implementation of the Globally Harmonised System (GHS) remain a big issue for companies,” he says Mr Trudeau describes this as a widespread problem.

Countries that do not make the hard choices required by the GHS leave grey areas that are difficult to navigate, he says. But countries where implementation is more advanced have also complicated things because regulatory details are often being challenged. “For companies it can be a do-your-own adventure in compliance.”

Mark Pemberton, technical director of Global MSDS, says that software that takes some of the decision making burden from companies, underpinned with reliable and up-to-date data, is essential to help chemical producers and users navigate these complexities.

“Companies can’t afford to do it in-house or to outsource it,” he says. “The use of intelligence-based systems linked with data threading – where you’re using freshly maintained data – is the only way to promote effective compliance and proactive engagement with regulation, because the cost of man hours is too high for many of these activities to occur in practice.”

Automating the SDS Such systems use complex computer algorithms to encode a sequence of considerations that an expert would make to develop say, a safety data sheet (SDS). Global MSDS’s HazMix SDS, for example, can determine whether the product is a liquid or a solid, which regulations are relevant for a specific part of the world and how these would apply.

It can also work out what advice should be given for a particular hazard and apply it to a particular part of the SDS. “It takes what would be a lot of human experience and automating it, making it simplistic,” says Dr Pemberton.

“So when you press the button you’re actually getting me and our multilingual regulatory team.”

Sphera’s systems do not come with artificial intelligence (AI), says Mr Trudeau, but they do support experts in making informed decisions by determining mixture hazards and compliance risks. As such, a company can assess the marketability of its products to customers in specific countries based on legal constraints and customer requirements.

Dr Pemberton says that the benefits of such systems can be clearly demonstrated in both time and money. “When we bought the company six years ago it took someone six to eight hours and several hundred pounds to write a SDS for a product with a complex mixture. That is now done in 20 minutes and costs £5.”

Such complex systems are all very well but software providers agree that their products are only as good as the data underpinning them. “It’s not in the interest of

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industry or regulators to have poor quality data,” says Dr Pemberton. Global MSDS has a legal agreement to get hazard classification information directly from the German government and Echa’s chemical databases, which he considers the most robust in the world.

To these classifications, the company adds Cas index occupational exposure limits (OELs), but the system also uses data from other regulatory systems which Dr Pemberton does not consider to be as reliable.

To help users navigate this variability in information quality, the software uses icons to distinguish between 21,000 classifications guaranteed by the lead competent authorities and companies as correct and those that are not. Any classification changes are updated instantly.

Complex algorithms can automate processes like filling out a safety data sheet

Both Global MSDS’s and Sphera’s systems give users the ability to add their own hazard classifications. “There are typically shades of grey in regulation,” says Mr Trudeau.

“So we provide users with settings, so they can enforce their preferences and interpretation where it matters.”

As well as having good quality datasets, Dr Pemberton says, the way they are used and interpreted is important.

He points to the use of read-across. For example, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed tools to enable users to look at the proximity of certain chemicals to a target chemical. “These are the way forward in management where you’re using information in a big data way,” he says.

Databases added A similar service is provided by ToxServices’s ToxFMD Screened Chemistry Database, which has a library of around 1,000 GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals assessments that examine substances against 18 human health and environmental endpoints, from cancer to persistence in the environment.

Bergen Hubert, sustainability scientist and project manager at ToxServices, says: “We developed a simple platform to get a snapshot, a tox profile, for each one of those endpoints for individual chemistries. You type in an individual Cas number and it populates individual tox profiles for each endpoint. Then you can click individually on that endpoint and see why we came up with that.”

The GreenScreen assessment comes up with an overall benchmark score at the end, from 1 (the most toxic) to 4 (the least), allowing users to identify chemicals of high concern and to search for similar but safer substances to replace them with.

ToxServices’s managing director and chief toxicologist Margaret Whittaker says the system helps companies eliminate hazards on the front side by screening out dangerous substances, and therefore reduces the need to carry out risk and exposure assessments in the final formulation.

In instances where risk assessments are required, GreenScreens are useful to identify critical health effects endpoints and identify points of departure, she adds.

For this reason, ToxServices is expanding the database to include two new modules. One has over 2,000 tolerable intake values, which are useful for assessing risks from extractables and leachables from medical devices or container closure systems; the other contains more than 3,000 personal care product profiles, including points of departure.

“This is so that companies that have to live in a risk world as opposed to a hazard avoidance world will still benefit from the database, because there’s a place for both in decision-making,” Dr Whittaker says.

Striking the right balance How do companies manage the balance between making their systems accurately reflect the complexity of regulation and remaining user-friendly? The visual interface is an important start. The ToxFMD database uses bright colour coding and provides indexing by function class to help users navigate the system and make better decisions about the chemicals in their products.

Global MSDS’s system is explicitly designed so that it can be used without detailed technical knowledge,

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with accompanying YouTube videos and ‘follow-me’ guides to help navigate it. The SDS can be generated in different ways, in multiple languages, to suit different user requirements.

However, some level of complexity is inevitable.

Sphera’s software reflects the fact that it is built for experts.

“Our domain is highly specialised and so are our users.

We would like to have state-of-the-art user-friendliness but our focus is on being conversant on regulatory details with our customers,” Mr Trudeau says.

He adds: “What matters most in the end is that our users find the solution to be aligned with what they need for compliance.” Sphera’s approach is to develop training material and recorded training sessions so users can teach themselves about their legal obligations and how to use the software in order to meet them.

The move to cloud computing will help in the storage of cross-company information

Up in the clouds As well as dealing with the current complexities of regulation, software producers have to keep abreast of new developments. One important way of doing this, says Mr Trudeau is to have a close relationship with customers and to listen to them. For instance, the forthcoming central notification requirements for national poison centres, which arises from a REACH annex, was brought to Sphera’s attention eight years ago by a concerned customer.

“It’s nine-headed hydra, it’s super-complex. You need to submit data in a specific format and this is meant to help but the deadlines are very ambitious for companies, he says.” Sphera is therefore planning to add new functionality to its software to be ready when the Echa portal becomes active. This will allow users to submit information about products electronically at the push of a button.

Global MSDS, meanwhile, is currently testing software for fingerprinting and interest profiling. “Based upon the chemicals, regions and topics you’re interested in, we can do a pay-as-you-go positive information system,” says Dr Pemberton. “The automated system will proactively tell you whether there’s a new regulation that touches your chemistry or topic, or whether there’s a classification change in any of your chemicals you’re interested in.

That, we believe, is the way things will go in the future.”

Individual software products can also have uses beyond their primary purpose. The main goal of the ToxFMD Screened Chemistry Database, for example, is to help companies make informed chemical management decisions. However, the underlying data can be used for other purposes, such as developing product SDSs and labels into a formulation review as part of the larger ToxFMD programme. enabling companies to demonstrate compliance with specific brand requirements, or to obtain risk values needed to comply with international standards and regulations.

Looking to the future, Mr Trudeau says the shift toward cloud computing may help companies store a single source of information across all of a company’s business units.

“For multinational companies there’s a lot of value in only having one version of the data characterising their products, otherwise there are islands and pockets of knowledge and they’re not harmonised. It makes it much easier for companies to manage,” he says.

Security issues are a potential barrier, Mr Trudeau adds, but he believes these can be overcome and that software can help a company raise its game by instituting a higher level of compliance than required in one country to keep pace with tougher regulations in another. Although the sheer volume of data to handle can be problematic, he says, it can also highlight the differences in regulation and implementation across the world. “It is exposing the variability as to how we regard the hazards of a chemical substance. It can force a conversation between people, such as ‘how did you get to that conclusion?’”

ToxServices agrees there is scope to improve chemical management in the industry, which is why it gives free access to its entire library of GreenScreen Benchmark 1 chemicals. “Hopefully, this will encourage a decrease in the use of these chemicals and, in cases where substitution isn’t possible, then at least exposure controls will be implemented,” says Dr Whittaker.

Dr Pemberton believes even more passionately that the industry’s compliance level can be raised by providing as much information as possible for free or at low cost. “The only way confidence in it will rise is by understanding about regulations and complying with them.

And the only way they’ll do that is cutting cost and raising awareness. That will slowly bring back confidence among regulators, NGOs and the general public”, he says.

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Showing compliance through software Software is becoming available to address both customer scrutiny and the varying regulatory landscape

Due to the trends towards increasing customer scrutiny of the safety of chemicals in products and tighter regulatory requirements, there is a growing need to manage risks, ensure compliance, demonstrate transparency to customers and maintain a good reputation, both for producers and users of chemicals. The circular economy is another driver for better understanding of the raw materials used. This is needed to ensure responsible use and safe reuse or recycling.

Furthermore, chemical regulations vary across regions, making the global regulatory landscape difficult to navigate. The digitalisation of industry as a whole is driving companies to look for ways to store data and intelligence centrally to share across the organisation rather than in separate siloes. And all of this comes at a time when companies have shrinking resources to tackle these issues.

Software packages are being made available to address these needs and help cut costs. “We see that mounting pressure to safely and efficiently develop, manufacture, market, utilise and distribute chemical-containing products is driving investment in product safety and compliance solutions,” explains Alan Johnson, director of strategic alliances at one of the companies offering such software, Verisk 3E. Mr Johnson adds: “With public pressure for transparency, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) increasing, the ability to efficiently collect, validate and share product compliance information across the global supply chain has never been more critical.”

Verisk 3E says that it offers a range of software for supply chain compliance, regulatory consulting, monitoring and reference, among other products. The information tools contained in the software are based on the contacts its

supply chain specialists make with suppliers, vendors and others to obtain material and compliance data.

The data acquired can be embedded into product safety and stewardship processes, automatically generating (extended) safety data sheets ((e)SDSs), labels and exposure scenarios.

Similarly, Gensuite says that its software enables users to stay up to date with global regulatory changes relating to product stewardship and product compliance.

This is accessed through a cloud-based, cross-functional platform, with a supplier portal and automatic notifications of changes in regulations by country or jurisdiction.

The firm’s packages cover product stewardship, regulation trackers, product compliance, and supply chain continuity and conflict minerals programme management.

Toxnot software, in comparison, sets out to enable companies to speed up and achieve transparency, by managing chemical hazards, improving product design and automating reporting. It “offers a secure chemical hazard dashboard connecting supply chain to streamline materials health management”, the company says.

Product hazard data can be collected, compared against regulatory lists, safer alternatives sought, and complex supply chains managed in one dashboard system.

This also generates automated reports, including health product declarations (HPDs), LEEDv4 manufacturer inventories and Declare labels.

Annie Bevan, sustainability manager at Superior Essex, a Toxnot customer, comments: “It is invaluable to be able to collect and organise chemical ingredient information, direct development of material ingredient reports, and collect key CSR supplier information all in one software tool.”

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Since chemical regulations are usually based on product contents, software tools like these, which systematically track this, can help companies create a forward-looking chemical management system. Time and resource savings can be made by using software which includes regulatory content, because there is less need for manual and timeconsuming processes like research, data entry and tracking down supplier and customer information.

“With the click of a button, you can send your supplier an official questionnaire, as well as collecting, organising and reporting various material ingredient information,” adds Ms Bevan. “As both collection of data and reporting is automated, we have found that we save hours of time and money which would have been spent on manually inputting data collected from emails and spreadsheets.”

Product stewardship software can even enable companies to gain other advantages beyond tracking and demonstrating compliance, according to Donavan Hornsby, Gensuite’s VP and corporate strategy executive.

“Although compliance is the starting point, our customers soon realise that they can use the same software to drive cross-functional efficiencies, supply chain continuity and even competitive advantage in the marketplace. They can move beyond compliance and begin creating broader value for their organisations,” he says.

Mr Johnson of Verisk 3E echoes this, saying: “Users can proactively anticipate and manage regulatory changes, respond quickly to shifting customer requirements, avoid supply chain disruption and accelerate time to market.”

Assigning responsibility for product compliance may seem like an insurmountable task, but accountability and transparency are vital in the commercial world. Software platforms can be used to digitise and visualise workflows across the organisation and share information.

Connections can be mapped between compliance leads to regulatory monitoring and impact assessments; from procurement teams to suppliers for data collection and validation; from engineers to compliance status of materials used in products; and from sales teams to products approved for shipment to different countries.

“Unfortunately, sometimes it takes a crisis to focus the mind and objectives of a company and to motivate crossfunctional working – for example, shipments stopped at the border, the loss of sole suppliers and lost customers are wake-up calls to action,” says Mr Hornsby.

Mr Johnson agrees, saying: “An intelligent product compliance solution can enable teams to base critical product decisions on more reliable, accurate and up-todate data, reducing the risk of having to rework

formulations or recall products due to non-compliance with changing regulations or shifting customer requirements.”

However, the results of software analyses are only as good as the data put in, so how do data quality issues come into this? Generally, data quality has improved with better and more consistent reporting standards. In addition, there is increased awareness of reporting requirements in the supply chain.

Toxnot provides a free suite of tools to help upstream suppliers understand the needs of downstream users.

However, there may still be quality issues with information from upstream suppliers and manufacturers and in a company’s internal business system.

"The digitalisation of industry as a whole is driving companies to look for ways to store data and intelligence centrally to share across the organisation rather than in separate siloes" “The implementation of compliance-focused software usually helps organisations understand the gaps they may have in internal systems and the need to educate their supply base and their internal stakeholders, for that matter,” explains Mr Hornby.

Once the gaps and issues are better understood, companies can use software platforms to ensure data integrity through real-time validation against business rules and regulatory reporting requirements. For example, Toxnot provides automatic updates of regulatory and hazard lists to ensure the data platform is current and quality-assured, as well as customer service.

“By providing free access to our data, we get the widest possible review from the global community to help update methods or catch mistakes more rapidly explains Pete Girard, CEO and co-founder of the company.

“At the customer level we provide support, help with documentation and training alongside our free platform access to help people to start to use the software and gain confidence.”

So if, as a producer or user of chemicals, a company wishes not only to track the chemical ingredients it uses but also to demonstrate compliance with regulations, show transparency to its customers and make efficiency savings, it could be worthwhile looking at obtaining a software package that suits its specific needs.

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Getting it right on safety data sheets Choosing the correct SDS authoring software is a lengthy but vital task

Safety data sheet (SDS) authoring systems are great tools for increasing efficiency and consistency, but choosing the right one for a specific company is no easy task.

Tracking international chemical regulatory guidelines and providing accurate, compliant documentation has never been more complex. It is important to find a system that make it possible to manage the complexities of gathering accurate data, applying regulatory directives and guides and issuing reliable hazard communication documentation.

On top of this, a system must be found that meets a business’s specific needs.

When deciding on an SDS authoring system, consultants, vendors and systems integrators all recommend setting up a structured project. Chemdox, a subsidiary of Germany’s Unique Computing Solutions that markets its eponymous software for SDSs and other documents, outlines a ten-step process for customers to use. These include: • research; • identification of needs; • demos; • testing; • looking at custom development needs; and • implementation planning.

One of the first things that should always be put in place, of course, is internal ownership, according to Sean McCloskey, a principal consultant at the international chemical service provider ERM. “Is this an IT project with the product stewardship (PS) organisation as a customer, or does the PS organisation manage their software systems? Establishing a cadence between the PS and IT teams is a critical step in the software selection process. A project may be IT-driven, with the business function as a customer, or business-driven, with IT providing support as directed,” he says.

Identifying requirements Once a project team is in place the next, and potentially most important step, is to identify the key requirements, or the scope of authoring needs. The questions that could be asked are endless, but to get started, Mr McCloskey puts forward some key points to consider (see box on page 24).

It is important to look to the future too. When such a large investment is being made, the system should last and be capable of growing with the business. With this in mind, users should consider their organisation’s outlook for the next five to ten years and the areas it might expand into.

It is also crucial to understand the company’s internal capabilities. Does it have staff that can manage implementation and system support or will they need external services? If so, what type and level of services is required and how much of the work can be or should be automated?

“We have a variety of customers. Some like to be hands-on and do all the authoring, while others like to simply push a button and let the system do it all,” says Karen Lanka, senior director of product management at Verisk 3E, a global provider of chemical, regulatory and compliance information services.

Defining the ‘must-have’ requirements makes it easier to understand exactly what the business needs from an SDS authoring system and set project expectations. This is important, Mrs Lanka explains, because “if expectations are not made clear at the beginning this can lead to the scope being expanded mid-project, which can result in additional effort and cost, as well as affecting your timeline”.

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gives an example of a large chemical company, which sold a handful of simple products that did not change over time, were only sold in North America and were transported by rail. It bought a very complex, expensive package of business rules and content.

"Once a project team is in place the next, and potentially most important step, is to identify the key requirements, or the scope of authoring needs" “As the implementation progressed, it became clear that the complexity of the system was a hindrance and the team ended up just mocking up their SDS in the system without using any of the complex features,” says Ms Prostko-Bell.

“Those could have been well worth the investment of time and money for a company with a different product portfolio, but in the case of this organisation, they only led to frustration and waste.”

Streamline the shortlist With defined requirements set out, a shortlist of vendors can be created. “Each company will have different requirements that might eliminate certain providers. It’s important to put together a list of what’s important to your company and ensure each of the providers you’re looking at can offer that,” says Frans Lemaire, product manager at Lisam.

Anton Zrzavy, Chemdox’s CEO, recommends requesting software demos at this point as “a good way to get a feel for the software – and the provider. You’ll be able to see if the system seems easy to use, if it’s efficient and if you like the look and feel of it. Employees will use this system every day.

If they hate the user interface, that’s going to be a bad thing, so it’s important to check these kinds of ‘soft’ facts.”

Doing this should shorten the list of potential systems further still, so next it is time to really drill down into the software and vendor, take a very detailed look at the systems, compare all their features and then put together a list of questions to send to vendors. These help to ensure the systems being considered meet specific requirements.

For example, users might want to ask how you can integrate the new SDS authoring system with the business’s existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) or product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, or check how often the provider supplies regulatory updates and if they provide the legal data or if it comes from a third party.

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ensure quality translation, the correct legal wording?

For example the legal wording may differ between Spanish-speaking countries, such as Spain, Mexico and Argentina.”

Taking the time to drill down into potential systems is very helpful, he adds. “It gets a potential buyer to sit down and think ‘Right, I’ve been working with my current software for 20 years – why am I checking out new systems? What are the things I want handled in a better way?’ It encourages people to look a bit deeper.”

Mr McCloskey advises reaching out to contacts within the same industry for benchmarking and to get their real-world experience. Furthermore, for those with little implementation experience, it might also be worth discussing the selection process with a system-agnostic third party consultancy.

Scope of authoring needs ERM’s advice on the things to consider when looking at the scope of authoring needs comprises the following: • what are the R&D formulation and new product introduction business process integration opportunities?; • how many unique products require an SDS or other hazard communication that will be generated by the authoring system?; • what is the rate of major changes and introduction of new products which drive SDS (re)authoring events?; • how complex is the product line chemistry, and are the products blends of raw materials or do they involve reaction and transformation?; • how diverse are the product lines in a chemistry sense?; • how many unique formats and languages are required based on regulatory needs and customer countries?; • how many different scenarios are supported for sales and distribution?; • how many users/authors will need access to the system, how spread-out are they and is this a factor in system performance?; • are metrics to hand for authoring time, measuring backlog, tracking the number of authoring events and changes done within the organisation and will the platform support capturing those and other metrics?; and • what other product stewardship requirements should the system address leveraging the common centralised SDS data (such as global chemical product compliance, hazardous material transport compliance, label authoring, etc.)?

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Structured testing Next, companies are recommended to undertake structured testing of the shortlisted systems. A lack of structured testing is something vendors see all too often, where companies are given access, then the time passes without trialling the system.

It is imperative to block time for structured testing and have a list of the processes to try out. Suppliers advise users to start by creating an SDS, adding a new substance to the system, then designing and generating a label, thus checking each of the tasks the system is supposed to carry out.

Mr Zrzavy recommends setting challenges, for example seeing how long it takes to set up a new mixture, classify it and set up an SDS for each of the regions the product is sold in. Comparing software this way will show which are most user-friendly and efficient.

It may also help customers raise specific questions.

For example, if a task is not available’ out of the box’, they can ask if it is achievable by altering the configuration or if there is a need to customise the system – and, indeed, if that is possible. Once all of these questions have been answered, it is time to request a quotation.

“It’s important to get it down to a good selection of software systems, to really understand your needs and the support available from the provider. Because, only when you have all this information can you judge whether the price is good value,” Mr Zrzavy concludes.

What to look for when selecting SDS software There is no ‘perfect’ checklist for selecting an SDS authoring system, but a rough guide can be envisaged. First and foremost, the chosen system must meet both business and regulatory requirements.

Other key steps to ensure due diligence are to: • develop a structured project for selecting SDS software and defining the project owners and leaders; • decide on the scope of PS needs; • understand in-house capabilities and whether external implementation and/or run-andmaintain services are needed; • consider the organisation’s outlook for the next five to ten years – for instance, consolidation through divestiture, expansion through acquisition or diversification of product lines; • ask what level of system automation is wanted; • create a shortlist of potential vendors that can the defined requirements; • request software demos; • drill down into initial research and return to vendors with any specific questions; • undertake structured software testing; • develop a final shortlist of systems to choose from; and • request quotations and make an informed decision on the value they offer.

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New kid on the block Can blockchain solve supply chain communication issues and enhance transparency?

The rise of globalisation has allowed businesses to tap into multiple markets and expand to every corner of the earth.

Much of this can be attributed to rapid development in IT over the past few decades. These technological advances have allowed products to be shipped around the world quickly and at relatively low cost.

However, while industry has benefited from open access to the global market, incredibly complex supply chains have emerged, bringing with them significant challenges. These vast webs have made sharing and obtaining information across multiple suppliers in multiple regions a particularly difficult challenge, especially for those along the chemical supply chain.

From consumer pressure to the growing number of regulations around the world, businesses are being required to identify product ingredients and publicly share them on an unprecedented scale. Knowing what chemicals are in the materials and products they buy and sell has become one of industry’s most pressing challenges.

It is fitting that, just as technology has been a factor in creating this problem, an emerging one is being hailed as the solution. In many people’s eyes, blockchain, the distributed ledger technology, holds the key. But what is blockchain? And how can it help companies achieve effective, efficient information exchange on chemicals and in a more transparent way?

The basics In simple terms, blockchain is a digital record-keeping system that enables the creation and maintenance of

a growing number of records, allowing fast tracking of information. It was originally created to manage transactions through the crypto-currency Bitcoin, but has since shown potential for sharing and retrieving many other forms of data.

Through a database, the information can be validated by a larger network, instead of just a central authority.

Advocates say the technology ensures data security, control and transparency.

“Blockchain is composed of what’s called a distributed ledger. It allows all the parties spread around a network to have access to or view the same data,” says Dominic Regan, Oracle’s senior director of logistics applications in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. This year, the computer technology firm rolled out a blockchain service, which allows companies to use the technology.

Mr Regan says that blockchain moves industry on from its traditional approach, which involves each stakeholder having its own database of information. “Over the years, we’ve seen all sorts of ways of integrating data.

But the reality is, if you want to get to it, you have to go to a database somewhere; you have to have the right credentials to get to it; and you have to retrieve the data, probably map it into a format that you can use, then consume that data,” he says.

This process, adds Mr Regan, can take a significant amount of time. In addition, issues of trust and security have been raised. Whether the data is the original set or has been changed before or subsequently are prominent worries for industry.

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The underlying concept of a blockchain is that everybody who is connected and within the defined network has access to the same data at the same time and it can only be changed if all parties agree. “That’s one of the real values of blockchain. By its nature, everybody has access at a local level and this greatly increases transparency and speed of access,” says Mr Regan.

With increased transparency come issues around confidential business information (CBI). According to Mr Regan, this is addressed through blockchain’s ability to allocate data access. Companies can integrate certain access rules through a ‘permission-based blockchain system’. This means only authorised parties can access, view or use the data.

The test phase Pilot projects that leverage blockchain as a fundamentally different approach to solving these problems are emerging.

One of the most notable is the collaboration between major US retailer Walmart and IT giant IBM, which has been in the blockchain space for some years. Walmart is assessing whether blockchain can be used to trace chemicals across some of its products and packaging.

A spokesperson for the retailer told Chemical Watch that “the beauty of blockchain is that it lets us shine a light on a range of data attributes”. Blockchain, she said, lets companies confidently and precisely pinpoint ingredients and suppliers, with dates, times, locations, temperatures, certificates and more. “It can provide an extraordinary level of detail that we would definitely like to see include chemical ingredients, direct and indirect additives and colours,” she added.

Walmart has collaborated with Chinese online retailer JD.com, IBM and the Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies to create a ‘Blockchain food safety alliance’. This aims to enhance food tracking and traceability, and achieve greater transparency through the food supply chain.

In a trial of the technology, the company first asked a team to trace a package of sliced mangoes back to their source using current methods. Because of paper-based record keeping commonly used in the industry and multiple layers in produce supply chains, it took six days, 18 hours and 26 minutes. Using blockchain it was able to trace a mango in a US store back to a farm in Mexico in 2.2 seconds.

“Such capability would help enable rapid processing of recalls and help limit potential exposure to affected products,” Walmart said in its latest sustainability report.

Global chemicals giant BASF is also working on a pilot project with start-up companies Quantoz and Ahrma.

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Together, they have developed an “intelligent pallet” that informs them about its position, movement and loading status. BASF says that with this, missing or damaged parts could be automatically re-ordered. The blockchain technology it is using means security and trust in the data integrity could increase. “This combination provides an outlook for a secure and transparent material and data flow in the future,” the company says.

The blockchain buzzword is also a discussion point of the Proactive Alliance industry group. The cross-sector alliance of industry representatives is working to develop a global standard for material data, which would be interoperable with the IT systems used by different sectors. The group recently held its second technical meeting and discussed whether blockchain could help collect and share material data for articles – including their chemical composition – across sectors. Its outcomes are soon to be released.

‘Overwhelming hype’ Although more and more companies are getting involved in blockchain, there are calls for caution. In April, the World Economic Forum released a report which said that companies must consider the “overwhelming amount of hype surrounding blockchain”.

“It has started to seem that the most intractable of the world’s problems have merely been waiting for blockchain to arrive. This is not only misleading and untrue, but also becomes a barrier to decision makers in taking a balanced perspective on the technology,” the report says.

Truly innovative deployments of blockchain, it continues, require a “match between blockchain’s specific benefits and use cases that enable realisation of these benefits”.

This must be followed by “dedicated hard work to get it right and embed it in organisations and industries”.

Moreover, the report adds, blockchain is “not a workaround for business processes, nor is its use a guarantee of stakeholder alignment … It is only once the hard work of engagement and deployment has been done that we will truly start to reap the benefits of the innovation provided by consensus and pseudonymous value transfer.”

The technology clearly offers significant opportunities for chemical supply chains and some of these are already being realised. However, it is still in its infancy, certainly for product supply chains. This means that its true potential is not yet understood and only when more, carefully implemented examples emerge on how blockchain works in this environment will we truly understand its potential and power to transform how chemicals are identified and tracked, leading to their better control.

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Glossary Use the glossary to look up key terms and how we define the categories presented in the guide.

Service areas Regulatory compliance

Chemical safety assessment

Hazard communication

Stewardship

Software functions/capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

manage chemical regulatory compliance during operational or regulatory change

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

source chemical and regulatory information

Reporting

present data as reports for regulatory bodies, shareholders, government agencies, etc.

Substance volume tracking

capture and track substance volumes to ensure compliance

Hazardous material management

manage SVHCs throughout the supply chain

Chemical inventory management

track inventory information required for regulatory reporting

Chemical safety prediction

help fill data gaps on hazardous materials

Product compliance

ensure products meet compliance requirements before going to market

Regulatory management

track regulatory updates and changes

Compliance assurance

conduct auditing in order to maintain compliance

Supply chain management

centralising supplier and customer information to maintain regulatory compliance throughout the supply chain

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

assess hazard endpoints, toxicology and screening

Exposure assessment

assess and manage safe exposure levels for workers

Risk assessment

assess risk of chemicals in materials/products

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Worker safety

determine hazards in the workplace, comply with hazard communications and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;right-to-knowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Environmental safety

assess the environmental impact of chemicals

Consumer safety

assess the impact on consumers of chemicals in consumer products

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

communicate vital information, providing a unified access point for all users

SDS authoring

support creation of SDS

SDS management

support distribution and maintenance of SDS records

Incident management

improve EHS performance and mitigate risk by capturing data on incidents and identifying root causes

Labelling

create labels for substances that meet regulatory compliance requirements

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

minimise environmental impact of chemicals in products through management and scrutiny of design/manufacturing process

Full material declaration

identify and track all substances in products to help minimise environmental impact

Supplier information

find and track supplier information to ensure end-to-end compliance

Corporate social responsibility

manage CSR metrics and data collection, assess and report on long-term CSR sustainability goals

Acronyms SaaS - software as a service ERP - enterprise resource planning PLM - product lifecycle management CSR - corporate social responsibility EMIS - environmental management information systems EHS - environmental health and safety FMD - full material disclosure BOM - bill of materials LIMS - laboratory information management system

Software functions/capabilities are indicated in the profiles using the following terms: Core - standard function/service of the product Enabled (Enb) - function/service is enabled by a partner Customisable (Cst) - customisable module before purchase

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ALMEGO® CHYMEIA ApS

About

www.almego.com

ALMEGO® is the new generation of SDS authoring software. It is provided by CHYMEIA ApS and based on more than a decade of development and dedicated focus on improving SDS authoring process.

info@almego.com

ALMEGO® offers a very high degree of automation in a SaaS solution. The automated processes are supplemented by a unique built-in guidance, a flexible structure and an intuitive user interface. ALMEGO® is a completely new type of SDS authoring software. Offered in a variety of affordable price-models, including unit-pricing.

0045 7240 1622

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

(ALMEGO® is targeted SDS authors in both small and large companies, and it is developed with a platform also making it an efficient, attractive and low-cost software for SDS authoring consultants.)

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features •

A user-friendly and intuitive interface;

•

built-in guidance and help functionalities;

•

high degree of automation with smart-rule authoring;

•

easy updating and translations to many languages;

•

an advanced CLP calculator;

•

easy data migration from the existing software;

• •

easy data migration from the existing software; and a price model that is tailored with flexible terms.

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting Substance volume tracking Hazardous material management Chemical inventory management Chemical safety prediction Product compliance Regulatory management Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Cst Cst Core Core Cst -

Chemical safety assessment

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial

Exposure assessment Risk assessment

Core Cst Core

Worker safety

Cst

Environmental safety

Cst

Consumer safety

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Hazard assessment

-

Hazard communication

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

Labelling

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

SDS management Incident management

Cst Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

That is exactly what we have developed with ALMEGO®. This new SDS authoring software has been designed with the needs of the users in focus.

All in an up-to-date SaaS platform. You can see and try it all online.

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CHEMDOX®

By CHEMDOX®

About

www.chemdox.com

The CHEMDOX® company provides an outstanding software solution for the chemical industry: Assure regulatory compliance; Classify chemicals according to numerous regulations; Generate high-quality safety-related documents in the most efficient way.

office@chemdox.com +1 888 8369462 +43 1 5321489 0

What our clients like about us The CHEMDOX® software has been developed by experts for experts. It’s efficient, open, flexible and really supports compliance. It is easy to use, easy to integrate and easy to automate. All this, based on state-of-the-art technology and an outstanding customer support.

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications

The CHEMDOX® company is a 100% subsidiary of UCS - unique computing solutions gmbh - developing high-quality software since 1999.

Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

•

Classification calculators: improve regulatory compliance when classifying chemicals according to several regulations (e.g. GHS, transport, national regulations). The CHEMDOX® regulatory calculators provide automatically computed classification suggestions; Regulatory coverage: cover global regulatory requirements on a best practice level and up-to-date for all major markets in e.g. Europe, Asia, Americas;

•

•

•

•

SDS authoring: generate SDS efficiently and ‘translate’ your SDS into 40+ countries taking into account official languages, national legal terminology as well as national regulations; Hazard labelling: create multilingual hazard labels with our flexible label editor; SDS distribution: distribute SDS automatically with no manual effort; and System integration & data exchange: the CHEMDOX® software provides easy and state-of-the-art integration with other IT systems.

Electronic exchange of data furthermore improves productivity and quality.

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Chemical inventory management

Enb

Chemical safety prediction

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Several regional consulting and sales partners worldwide

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Enb

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Labelling

Cst Core

Stewardship

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Partners •

-

Product compliance

Incident management

Product details

Enb

Hazardous material management

•

Several software partners (ERP, labelling, etc).

Other support services •

Free software demo

•

Extensive customer support

•

CHEMDOX® days

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

Chemical management: manage chemicals easily and efficiently with the CHEMDOX® software and its legal content, and substance database;

Regulatory compliance

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ChemGes

By DR-Software

About

www.dr-software.com

With more than 1800 customers in 53 countries, DR-Software is a leader in creating and managing SDSs, Internal Plant Instructions and labels. Solutions range from single workstations to worldwide corporate networks, equally meeting the requirements of global enterprises and SMEs.

info@dr-software.com

ChemGes combines transport, environmental and safety data and calculates risks and hazards, from which SDSs according to various international standards and in 37 languages, are easily and quickly authored. Thus, leading to significant cost and time savings for complying with legislation globally.

A maintenance contract guarantees unlimited hotline support and access to all software and legislative updates. Legal and data changes are implemented quickly.

North America: +1 902 832 3425 Europe: +43 2628 61900

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

Offices in Canada, USA, Austria, Germany, France, Italy;

•

available in 4 screen languages (English, French, German, Italian);

• •

raw material database of 22,000 substances; automatic country-specific classification according to the UN-GHS and its worldwide implementation (including OSHA HCS, CLP, WHMIS 2015); transport classification;

•

estimation of physical/chemical data;

•

automatic creation of SDSs in 37 languages;

•

label module;

•

IPIs;

•

•

entering a formulation and outputting an SDS, takes only a few minutes;

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

•

extremely high scalability/flexibility, for all industries and needs;

Substance volume tracking

•

•

• •

experienced in-house software engineers quickly implement userspecific program adjustments and customized applications;

Hazardous material management Chemical inventory management

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment

network capability for standardized data management; and

TLVs, Substance Listings, Tox Data;

Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Product details Software type Locally installed; Local installation ensures utmost security User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable, Vast level of functionality Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Maintenance contract subscription

Cst

Chemical safety prediction

rule-based form generator allows for fully-automatic SDS creation and update;

expert team provides professional, fast hotline support for all questions on the software, legislation, and technical matters.

Cst Core

Cst Core

Stewardship

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS, Custom programme for integration Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Extensive database and formulae Expertise Implementation, Integration

Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Unlimited hotline support

•

Comprehensive manual

•

Customised training

•

Update description

•

Guidance PowerPoints and documents

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

Regulatory compliance

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Chesar By the European Chemicals Agency (Echa)

About

www.chesar.echa.europa.eu/

Chesar is an application developed by the European Chemicals Agency (Echa) to help companies carry out their chemical safety assessments (CSAs) and prepare their chemical safety reports (CSRs) and exposure scenarios (ESs) for communication.

Chesar enables registrants to conduct their safety assessments in a structured, harmonised, transparent and efficient way. Its workflow starts with the import of substance-related data from Iuclid, followed by the use description and performing the exposure assessment and risk characterisation. Based on this, Chesar automatically generates the CSR and ESs for communication.

chesar@echa.europa.eu

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

•

• •

Chesar helps you maintain full consistency between your IUCLID dossier, CSR and ESs for communication;

•

fully compatible with IUCLID - import substance data and export use and exposure information

•

contains built-in exposure estimation tools (ECETOC TRA and EUSES);

•

automatic generation and easy and efficient update of CSR and ESs for communication;

•

facilitates re-use/update of assessment elements, including use maps developed by sector associations; allows import of the ESCom phrase catalogue and generation of ESs in ESCom XML format; allows import of translations of phrase catalogues and generation of translated ESs for communication; and available free of charge and easy to install.

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals) Data management (regulatory lists, substance data) Reporting

Core Core

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

-

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

-

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Software type Locally installed, Both desktop and server installation available

Pricing structure Free of charge

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Integration capabilities Iuclid, ESCom XML

Hazard communication

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

-

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Chesar support

•

CSR illustrative example

•

Use maps library

•

Echa helpdesk

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Product details

Exposure assessment

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Cority Chemical Management for EHSQ

By Cority Software

About

www.cority.com

Cority’s Chemical Management Solutions are designed to ensure industrial hygienists, safety professionals and environmental professionals have a single source of information to identify and manage risks, manage employee safety, health and well-being programs, and drive EHS regulatory compliance.

info@cority.com

Service areas

Features •

1-800-276-9120

Regulatory compliance

Complete industrial hygiene sampling and testing;

•

inventory management;

Chemical safety assessment

•

out-of-the-box 3rd party content integrations;

Hazard communications Stewardship

•

job hazard analyses;

•

risk management;

•

MOC – new chemical approval; and

•

medical surveillance management;

•

waste management

•

SEG management;

Regulatory compliance

•

product management, including: SDS management, labeling, hazard communication, multi-language support;

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Enb

Functions/Capabilities

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Enb

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core -

Product compliance Regulatory management Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Enb Core Enb

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core -

Consumer safety

Hazard communication

Partners •

Arcadis Integration provider

Supply chain communication

•

ERM Integration partner

•

SiteHawk Content provider

•

Verisk 3E

SDS authoring

Content provider

SDS management

Enb Enb

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship -

Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Enb Enb Core

Other support services •

Webinar: 21st Century Chemical Management: How to Eliminate the Confusion and Risk from your Chemical Management Program

•

Webinar:Tic, Tac, TSCA: What you Need to Know to Prepare for Implementation in 2017

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Pricing structure Licensed

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Reporting

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efam (Environmental Fate Automated Modelling) By knoell Germany GmbH

About

www.knoell.com

With efam (Environmental Fate Automated Modelling) we offer a software for automating environmental exposure assessments prescribed for approval procedures for plant protection products (PPP). Such exposure assessments are performed using established computer models. The software automates and optimizes the workflow for individuals or groups of people dealing with environmental fate and exposure assessment. It is developed to automate model parameterization and model simulations, extract the results and transfer the output to formatted tables suitable for dossier/report incorporation. The development is of interest, not only in terms of speeding up modeling and report generation, but also it optimizes the organization of data, reduce the occurrence of manual input errors and reduce the effort required for quality control.

efam@knoell.com 0621-718858-0

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features Properties: • reduction in run times through automated parallelisation of modelling calculations; •

flexible and modular structure;

•

customised integration and updating of new model versions;

•

tailored-made reporting and results tables; and

•

calculations on remote highperformance servers.

•

improved quality control thanks to fewer manual work processes;

•

use within secured and externally audited IT infrastructure;

•

integration of future model versions;

• •

• •

• •

basis for higher-tier modelling; and

Core

IEEE industry standard.

Reporting

Core

reduce errors in implementation that are often caused by manual work; optimise quality assurance processes; speed up exposure modelling and automate the creation of results tables; reduce time involved in parametrising models and documentation; and easy adjustment of formatted output tables.

Product details Software type SaaS, Locally installed

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

User experience Configurable, Reports can be customised

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Training

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free hands-on training

-

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

efam helps to: • centralise input data for several models in one database; •

Change management (chemicals)

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

-

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

-

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety Environmental safety Consumer safety

Core -

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

-

SDS authoring

-

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Enb

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Advantages: • fast processing of modelling tasks;

Regulatory compliance

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C O M P L I A N C E

By H2 Compliance (part of Landbell Group)

About

www.h2compliance.com

Element1 was developed 10 years ago to support the delivery of Chemical Regulatory Services by H2 Compliance. It has progressively developed into an online application valued by our broad client base for support of their activities.

kevin.hoban@h2compliance.com 353-21-4868120

Provided as SaaS, its stability, functionality and security are core attributes.

Service areas

Features

Regulatory compliance

•

Tracking of substances and tonnages;

•

substance tracking vs Lists of Concern;

•

authoring and archiving of joint and lead dossiers;

•

biocides inventory tracking; and

•

notifications (C&L and PCN)

User experience Customisable, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed

Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Chemical safety assessment

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Integration capabilities ERP, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

Hazardous material management

Cst

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance

Cst Cst

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment Exposure assessment

Cst Core

Worker safety

Cst

Environmental safety

Cst

Consumer safety

Cst

Hazard communication Supply chain communication SDS authoring SDS management

Core Cst

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Core -

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Risk assessment

Core

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ExESS

By Lisam Systems

About

www.lisam.com

ExESS is a powerful, integrated software solution (.NET) based for global environmental health, safety and transportation management.

marketing@lisam.com

ExESS rules calculators, analyse, adhere to and maintain compliance with local and international EHS and transport regulations. Utilising over 2000 algorithms and supported by major product and regulatory databases worldwide, ExESS is able to generate accurate and consistent regulatory documents including SDS, (e)SDS, various transport documents, regulatory compliant labels, etc.

ExESS supports over 50 languages which can be linked to any product or regulatory database and allows the creation of custom templates to ensure local regulatory compliance.

•

• •

•

provides multi-lingual document creation ((e)SDS, labels, Workplace Instruction Cards), validation and distribution; SDS Authoring; allows for the creation and maintenance of the customer Product database. It allows the manual addition (or importation) of new products to the database; and classification & rules creation

Hazard communications Stewardship

Apart from the classification functionalities provided as standard in the system such as: CLP, GHS US, GHS CN, ADR etc. ExESS also provides customers with the ability to add own rules: • rule (blocks);

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

•

parents – child relations;

Product compliance

Core

•

versioning;

Regulatory management

Core

•

phrase libraries;

Compliance assurance

Core

•

content updates;

Chemical safety assessment

•

history/track changes;

Hazard assessment

Core

•

data exchange; and

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

•

administration and security.

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Supply chain management

Cst

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

Labelling

Core

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Partners

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

EIGA Content provider

•

JCDB Content provider

•

Emori Systems integrator

Cst

Full material declaration

•

Lisam Systems events

•

Lisam Systems news

•

Lisam Systems free demo

Cst

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content provider

Chemical safety assessment

Hazard communication

Software type Locally installed

WikiChemia

Regulatory compliance

Regulatory compliance

SDS, labels & other documents management;

Product details

•

Service areas

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

00 32 6749 0003

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Fasim 2.1

By Philips Innovation Services www.innovationservices.philips. com

About The HazCom team of Philips Innovation Services offers 25 years’ experience in authoring SDS and advising on global transport of hazardous materials. With its SDS authoring tool Fasim 2.1 customers can manage their inbound and outbound chemicals via a dedicated environment including product registers, various reporting functionalities and compliancy checks. Next to SDS and Workplace Instruction Cards the tool offers the authoring of iSDs (internal Safety Documents). They are based on Philips expert validation of supplier SDS and summarize the most crucial information on a chemical product for your workers on the shop floor.

hazcom@philips.com +31 (0) 6110 58801

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

• •

•

•

Quick access to your safety documents via your own dedicated customer environment; fast and friendly user interface with advanced search functions; an SDS database with more than 14.000 validated SDS and almost 10.000 components;

•

data export in MS Excel to facilitate reporting obligations;

•

pro-active maintenance of vendor SDS;

•

creation of iSDs, Workplace Instruction Cards, GHS labels;

•

all safety documents are instantly available in 38 languages at no additional cost;

validated internal Safety Documents based on the most recent supplier SDS;

•

creation of multiple user groups/sites with different access rights; and

storage of supplier SDS by language and region;

•

compatible with smartphones and tablets.

Pricing structure Pay-per-use, Subscription, Pay-per-product Integration capabilities XML interface with Stoffenmanager and Credit360

Partners •

Stoffenmanager Software provider

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Cst

Substance volume tracking

Cst

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Validated component and product database Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Advising on the transport of hazardous materials

-

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Core

Exposure assessment

Enb

Risk assessment

Enb

Worker safety

Enb

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

User feedback group

•

Yearly seminar on regulatory changes

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Regulatory compliance

Hazard assessment

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Functions/Capabilities

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gComply

By Decernis

About

www.decernis.com

gComply provides the current necessary global knowledge and regulatory library to determine the compliance status of your products, components, materials, ingredients and substances.

sblackie@decernis.com

gComply is a powerful web-based regulatory reference database providing access to over 95,000 regulations across 212 countries, allowing you to scan applicable requirements relevant to your business or products.

+1 248 505 8516

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment

Using over 5 million terms across 40+ languages, gComply is providing you a user friendly and efficient searching and cross-referencing tool at your fingertips.

Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

• •

Functions/Capabilities

Search and find applicable regulations and amendments in identified countries or regions relevant to your products; search for specific criteria in particular regulations; find regulatory updates or changes with ease;

•

•

quickly review a variety of regulations applicable to an individual ingredient or substance; English translations of important regulations available;

•

updated monthly; and

•

customizable with your own private library of data, documents, and customer standards.

Product details

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

-

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance Regulatory management

Enb -

Supply chain management

-

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Database, Regulatory updates

Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

-

Worker safety

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication

Partners •

SpecPage Systems integrator

•

Siemens Systems integrator

•

Supply chain communication

-

Deloitte

SDS authoring

-

Consultancy

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Plastics Industry Association

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Pricing structure Licensed

Consultancy

Core

Compliance assurance

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Intertek

-

Hazardous material management

Chemical safety assessment

•

-

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

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Gensuite SDS Systems

By Gensuite LLC

About

www.gensuite.com

Gensuite® enables companies to implement robust cross-functional compliance & management systems – locally, globally and across diverse operating profiles.

For over two decades, we’ve helped companies manage safe & sustainable operations worldwide, with a focus on fast return on investment (ROI), service excellence and continuous innovation. Join over 600,000 users that trust Gensuite with their compliance and EHS&S software system needs!

nikhilkumar.mantripragada@ gensuitellc.com +1 513 774 1000

Service areas Regulatory compliance

Gensuite Chemical Management software simplifies chemical hazard communication and risk management. Utilize a suite of applications for chemical labeling processes, regulatory analysis and reporting, Safety Data Sheet (SDS) maintenance, and environmental and product compliance.

Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features • •

•

•

•

•

•

to use desktop and Mobile-friendly search capability;

robust, sustainable processes for enterprise engagement and operational excellence;

• •

flexible configuration features, powerful extensions, and integration options; global solution available in 16+ languages with integrated regulatory content;

•

integrated data analytics and business intelligence tool; •

deep-domain expertise and service and support excellence spanning two decades; Gensuite READY™ option: pre-configured, economical, and launch in <2 weeks!

•

meet hazard communication (HazCom) obligations through easy

maintain up-to-date SDS software for all chemical products; generate Globally Harmonized System (GHS), National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and Health Information Management System (HIMS) compliant labels for container marking and shipping needs; setup a customized workflow for review and approval of all new chemical products Screen country-level regulatory applicability for chemical products and ensure compliance with reporting requirements Leverage SDS constituent data for regulatory-required reporting (e.g., U.S. Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reports, country-specific REACH requirements, etc.)

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Subscription, Free trial

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Partners •

enhesa Content provider

•

AECOM Consultancy

•

HUCO Consulting Consultancy

•

Bloomberg BNA Content provider

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Enb

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance

Enb Core

Regulatory management

Enb

Compliance assurance

Enb

Supply chain management

Enb

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Cst

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

Gensuite events

Cst

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

Enhanced compliance, productivity and accountability;

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GeSi³

By GeSi Software GmbH www.gesi-international.com

About GeSi³ SDB-Profi is an innovative software-solution. It supports you with the creation and administration of REACH- and GHS-compliant safety data sheets. The software convinces with many time-saving functions and a well-conceived database design.

The result is a legally compliant safety data sheet for your customers in the European Union and beyond.

The software can be expanded for occupational safety (create and organize risk assessment and operating instructions, action tracking and hazardous substances management (risk assessment, REACH and GHS compliant hazardous substances register, multilingual operating instructions for hazardous substances).

As a new service especially for creators and receivers of safety data sheets, GeSi³ Software provides a free quality check of your safety data sheets on sds-check.com.

•

•

Formula management; GHS Classification Assistant incl. the German determination of water pollution class (WGK);

•

dangerous goods classification ADR/ RID, ADN, IMDG and ICAO for section 14;

•

European Phrase Catalogue (EuPhraC), 34 languages;

•

European waste catalogue (EWC), UN designations; individual phrases (import/export option via Excel lists to be easily translated by your translation agency);

•

•

•

Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Core

country-specific limits;

Reporting

Core

substance database (legal classifications according to CLP Regulation);

Substance volume tracking

REACH candidate list check of ingredients; multilingual legally compliant labels for hazardous substances (individual formats); BfR (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment ) product notification / European product notification (PCN); and SDBtransfer import/export interface – SDScomXML

Enb

Chemical inventory management

Enb

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance Regulatory management

Integration capabilities EHS, Formula Management

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Content provider

•

Qualisys GmbH Content provider

•

Core

Exposure assessment

Enb

Risk assessment

Enb

Worker safety Environmental safety Consumer safety

Enb Core -

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

-

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core Enb

Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services ecomed-Storck GmbH

Core

Stewardship

Partners •

-

Compliance assurance

Labelling

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

-

Hazardous material management

Incident management

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription

Content provider

Chemical safety assessment

Core

Software type Locally installed, Web-based modules

Qualisys GmbH

Regulatory compliance

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Product details

•

Service areas

Qualisys GmbH Content provider

•

sds-check.com

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

•

•

049 931 465 33 00

Change management (chemicals)

Features •

info@gesi.de

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Global Data Brokerage Platform

By ReachCentrum, an ERM Group company

About Global Data Brokerage Platform is a comprehensive online tool enabling owners of data (companies or consortia) to sell the right to refer to the data to parties registering substances under non-European Legislations. Shared data can take form of Study Reports, Robust Studies Summaries and Chemical Safety Reports. Sellers of data access identify the data sets per substance they wish to make available under a Data License Agreement. Buyers acquire rights to specific data for direct or read-across use.

Addressed jurisdictions are South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey and USA.

www.reachcentrumdata brokerage.com info@reachcentrumdata brokerage.com 0032 2676 7400

Service areas Regulatory compliance

Features •

Common system to share study data for regulatory purposes

Chemical safety assessment

•

Contract negotiations •

data sharing with individual data owners

•

data sharing with consortia

•

data sharing with data requestor

• all jurisdictions • read across, package, individual •

Transparent financial management

Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals) Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Product details

Reporting

-

Substance volume tracking

-

Software type Cloud based

Integration capabilities EHS

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical safety prediction

Core

User experience Customisable

Content type All hazard endpoint studies

Product compliance

Core

Pricing structure Pay-per-use

Expertise Letter-of-access shop for study reports

Chemical inventory management

-

Regulatory management

-

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

-

SDS authoring

-

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Hazard assessment

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Global MSDS Solutions & Hazmix®

By Global MSDS Ltd

About

https://hazmix.com

GMSDS is a market leading supplier of low cost authoring Services and Software of SDS and labels in global formats and languages from £5. Software includes Hazmix®, on-line intelligence-based software with free databases (ECHA and GESTIS, CLP, GHS and OHA GHS classifications, OELs and regulations, etc.) and Writer®, for multilingual “freestyle” authoring via Microsoft Word®. Our Solutions service

solutions@globalmsds.co.uk + 44 (0) 845 680 1180

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment

Features

Hazard communications

•

Pay-as-you-go so no software purchase or annual fees;

•

optional editing with 10,000 translated phrases in 40 languages;

•

saves time and cost – author a full SDS from just £5;

•

•

ensures compliance with Regulations;

free databases of chemical properties data (ECHA and GESTIS), classifications ( CLP, GHS and OHA GHS) and Exposure limits (all countries);

•

all Global SDS formats;

•

intelligence-based software that ensures correct Classification for Supply and Transportation;

•

•

flexible outputs (pdf, Microsoft Word®. and Writer® (language enabled Word® document); and outsource SDS authoring to our trained multilingual staff.

Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals) Data management (regulatory lists, substance data) Reporting

-

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management Chemical safety prediction Product compliance Regulatory management

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Pricing structure Pay-per-us, Free trial Integration capabilities EHS, Formula Management

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, SDS and label authoring service

Core Core

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

-

Worker safety

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication SDS authoring SDS management Incident management Labelling

Core Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable, Intuitive and easy to use but fully adaptable

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Free databases; ECHA, GESTIS, C&L, OELs and Regs

Core

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Horizon Scanning

By Decernis

About

www.decernis.com

Horizon Scanning is an intelligence-gathering solution using big data analytics which automatically monitors and tracks global events and regulations, providing insights and trend analysis that impact compliance requirements, enable market access, and increase speed to market for your products.

sblackie@decernis.com

What challenges must I face tomorrow with new draft requirements or developments in the marketplace? How do I manage change? How can I take advantage of opportunities and avoid delays? These are fundamental challenges for manufacturers and processors. Using Decernis’ patented “Horizon Scanning” technology, your business can proactively monitor regulatory changes that affect your products.

Features •

• •

•

Screens over 1,200 pages per minute and cross-references developments against a 5-million term lexicon across 40+ languages and over 200 countries; summarizes over 2,500 regulatory and scientific events per day; sources include the Decernis expert editorial team, direct feeds from governmental partners, and automation; fully customizable to your business, product and ingredient portfolio;

•

monitor significant developments and hot topics;

•

proposed and final regulatory notifications;

•

scientific opinions;

•

market developments and consumer trends;

Consultancy

•

SpecPage Systems integrator

Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Cst

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Cst

Reporting

Cst

Substance volume tracking

Cst

Hazardous material management

Cst

Chemical inventory management

•

warning announcements;

Product compliance

•

issue management; and

•

translations of content summaries.

Regulatory management

Cst Cst Core

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment

Siemens Systems integrator

-

Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

-

Worker safety

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication

Content type Regulatory updates

•

Hazard assessment

Supply chain communication SDS authoring

•

Deloitte Consultancy

Cst

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Plastics Industry Association

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Intertek

Chemical safety assessment

Chemical safety prediction

Partners •

Regulatory compliance

product recalls;

Pricing structure Licensed

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Service areas

•

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

+1 248 505 8516

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Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Chemical and Workplace Safety

By Verisk 3E

About

www.Verisk3E.com

Verisk 3E™ provides award winning SDS and chemical management tools that are flexible, scalable, and modular, offering a variety of options and enhancements based on your organization’s needs. Verisk 3E employs a full service approach to SDS management, assuming the burden of obtaining and maintaining the currency of all SDSs in your chemical inventory across all of your global locations. Beyond managing and maintaining SDSs, our solution can enhance your overall hazard communication program, supported with many options, including sophisticated safer chemical analytics which enable your team to perform intelligent risk assessments, evaluating product hazards based on SDS data and exposure considerations.

info@Verisk3E.com USA +1 800 360 3220 EMEA +45 6991 8473

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features •

•

•

•

enable every handler to access updated SDSs, labels and Extended Safety Data Sheets (eSDSs) in the language and jurisdiction required anytime, anywhere 24-7-365; eliminate time wasted chasing suppliers for SDSs and let Verisk 3E obtain and manage revisions to all SDSs across all of your locations; comply with local, national, regional and global EHS and rightto-know regulations including GHS, Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), California Proposition 65, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and others;

requirements related to emergency planning, community right-to-know, hazardous materials storage and handling and waste generation; •

•

•

•

research, identify, analyze, track, complete and submit required US-required disclosures, permits and reports on your behalf for

access live, global 24-7-365 emergency and incident response for spills, ingestions and exposures; quickly and expertly evaluate the relative hazards of your chemicals, mixtures and products to assess health and environmental risk and determine mitigation measures; stay abreast of continually changing regulatory obligations in multiple markets and jurisdictions and quickly determine their impact on operations; and integrate current, comprehensive regulatory content and documents including SDSs, eSDSs, technical data sheets, compliance declarations and material declarations into your EHS, procurement, EMIS or ERP system.

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Pricing structure Subscription, Free trial

Enb

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance Regulatory management

Enb

Compliance assurance

Enb

Content provider

•

Intelex Content provider

•

-

Supply chain management

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Enb Core

Stewardship Enb Enb Core

Other support services

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, SDS and other documents Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Enablon

Enb Core

Corporate social responsibility

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Partners •

Enb

Hazardous material management

Supplier information

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content provider

Change management (chemicals)

Full material declaration

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

SAP

Regulatory compliance

Product lifecycle management

Product details

•

Functions/Capabilities

SAI Gobal Content provider

•

Verisk 3E events and user groups

•

Verisk 3E EHS webinar series

•

Verisk 3E expressions blog

•

Verisk 3E resource center

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

Take control of chemical inventory management and approval, managing which chemicals enter a given facility;

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Intelligent Compliance Solutions for Product Safety & Stewardship

By Verisk 3E

About

www.Verisk3E.com

Verisk 3E™ provides intelligent product safety and stewardship solutions that leverage reliable, global regulatory content to accelerate the development and launch of safer products. Our core competence lies in researching, obtaining, aggregating, validating, and enriching compliance related data and making it actionable and available to our customers.

info@Verisk3E.com

Only Verisk 3E can empower you with comprehensive regulatory insights that can be directly embedded throughout your product safety and stewardship processes to drive informed, proactive decisions.

With Verisk 3E as your single trusted source for global regulatory expertise and compliance solutions you will be able to proactively anticipate and manage regulatory changes, respond quickly to changing customer requirements, avoid supply chain disruption and accelerate time to market.

USA +1 800 360 3220 EMEA +45 6991 8473

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features •

•

•

•

conform with regulations and international treaties regarding the manufacture, import and use of banned or restricted substances to ensure products can be sold in their intended markets; seamlessly exchange safety and product data across the organization to increase accuracy, compliance and productivity;

•

create, analyze and manage globally compliant, multilingual hazard communication documentation including Safety Data Sheets (SDSs), exposure scenarios and labels; address requirements for voluntary compliance initiatives including sustainable product design and development, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Nongovernment Organization (NGO) obligations; and streamline processes in order to reduce costs, mitigate risk, deliver to market on time and meet customer demands for customization.

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

SAP Content provider

•

Enablon

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Content provider

Content provider

•

Core

Substance volume tracking

Enb

Hazardous material management

Enb

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Enb -

Supply chain management

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Intelex

Reporting

Labelling

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Full text of regulations

•

Core

Incident management

Partners •

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

SAI Gobal Content provider

Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Enb Enb Core Enb

Other support services •

Verisk 3E events and user groups

•

Verisk 3E EHS webinar series

•

Verisk 3E expressions blog

•

Verisk 3E resource center

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

Proactively manage the health, safety and environmental aspects of raw materials and intermediate and consumer products to reduce potential risks to people and the environment;

Change management (chemicals)

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Label Enterprise

By Hibiscus-PLC

About

www.hibiscus-plc.co.uk

Label Enterprise is the perfect solution for creating and printing GHS/CLP compliant labels for all major commercial markets. It offers chemical manufacturers and distributors a convenient, automated and accurate tool for meeting global chemical labelling compliance.

enquiries@hibiscus-plc.com 0113 242 4272

Enterprise is purposely developed for designing and printing multi-language labels for hazardous goods. It enables you to place the required mandatory phrases, pictograms, text, branding and barcodes onto your labels in compliance with the latest industry requirements, and helps your company to keep abreast of any regulatory changes.

Service areas

Features

Functions/Capabilities

•

•

•

•

uick and easy to use WYSIWYG Q interface for creating, designing and editing labels with the minimum of training;

• •

a simple and flexible templatebased user interface reduces the complexity for end-users;

•

complete control over the appearance of your labels with an unlimited number of templates;

•

a customisable database stores substance data and allows additional fields;

•

industry-standard labelling elements at your fingertips; includes a comprehensive list of all Hazard & Precautionary phrases; additional languages can be added individually or as a multi-language pack; optionally pre-loaded with the latest full ADR and/or CLP lists of ready classified substances – at no extra cost; and designed to work with any standard Windows compatible printer.

Software type Locally installed

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Free trial

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Integration capabilities ERP, EHS, Links in with Hibsoft Prometheus

Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

-

Reporting

-

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

-

Chemical safety prediction

-

Product compliance

-

Regulatory management

-

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

-

Worker safety

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

-

SDS authoring

-

SDS management

-

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Product details

Regulatory compliance

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MSDSonline SDS/Chemical Management solution

By VelocityEHS

About

www.MSDSonline.com

MSDSonline solutions by VelocityEHS provide award-winning cloud-based and mobileenabled SDS/Chemical Management tools that make it easy and cost effective to keep workers safe and maintain regulatory compliance. With the popular MSDSonline HQ and HQ RegXR Accounts – newly updated to feature hundreds of additional and improved features – built on more than 20 years of existing software innovation and feedback from EHS professionals – users can streamline compliance with global regulatory requirements and easily access and manage safety data sheets. Plus, robust capabilities for workplace/secondary container labeling, product and container level inventory management, and regulatory cross-referencing offer a centralized way to manage chemical hazards across an entire organization.

velocity@ehs.com

Service areas

Features

Functions/Capabilities

•

•

•

mobile-enabled functionality, making it possible to provide employees with right-to-know access to SDSs and chemical inventory information even while offline, via a convenient mobile app; easy workplace container labeling functionality, including integration with key label partners, and the ability to meet the challenges of labeling small secondary containers such as test tubes and vials;

•

•

•

•

Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial, Scalable subscription costs

Hazard communications Stewardship

Regulatory compliance

enterprise-wide visibility of chemical inventories, and the ability to track and manage chemicals by location;

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

Core

environmental and regulatory reporting tools, including quick and easy generation of a properly formatted Tier 2 report; and access to the Plan1 First Responder Share Service for easy sharing of critical chemical information with local emergency responders.

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

-

Chemical safety prediction

-

Product compliance Regulatory management

Core -

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Enb

Chemical safety assessment -

Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core -

Consumer safety

Hazard communication

Product details

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable, Simple and felxible out-of-the-box

Chemical safety assessment

expanded language capabilities to ensure employees have immediate access to vital safety information – including company-specific SDSs – in the languages they understand;

The ability to print workplace labels from your mobile device;

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Multi-tenant (meeting SOC2 standards)

Regulatory compliance

Integration capabilities EHS, Supports emergency planning and EPCRA reporting Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, SDS authoring, Regulatory consulting service

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core -

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Regulatory information, webinars whitepapers & guide

•

VelocityEHS website including all EHS software solutions

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

24/7 access to millions of SDSs, with auto-updates available to help ensure documents in your library are up-todate and GHS-aligned;

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Product Stewardship Services and Solutions

By CGI

About

www.cgi.com/ehs

Founded in 1976, CGI is one of the world’s largest IT and business consulting services firms, helping clients achieve their goals, including becoming customer-centric digital organizations.

ehs@cgi.com

CGI’s Regulatory Solutions Group provides regulatory consulting, SDS authoring services and information technology solutions for environmental health and safety business needs in the public and private sectors. CGI has over 20 years of experience partnering with leading organizations to implement effective regulatory solutions that improve our clients’ compliance postures and bottom lines.

CGI’s ProSteward360 is a global end-to-end hazard communication and regulatory compliance solution enabling streamlined product stewardship and product lifecycle management processes.

001 605-592-0551

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features •

•

•

Exposure Scenario Management: store and manage use, exposure scenario and risk management measure information for REACH and CLP compliance.

•

Chemical Inventory and Workplace Safety: get one-stop access to critical information regarding right-to-know, site-level material use authorization, and chemical inventory management and reporting.

Reporting & ERP Integration: flexible data interfacing and reporting engine enabling enterprise integration.

Vendor SDS Management: store and maintain a central repository of vendor and company-authored SDSs for employee access aligned with local requirements.

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, Environmental health and safety, Formula Management, LIMS

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Cst

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

-

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Cst

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Cst

Hazard communication

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed, Mobile enabled

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Rules & templates with substance level data capture Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Regulatory & authoring services

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Enb

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

Product Stewardship

•

Regulatory business process services: meeting compliance challenges head on

Enb

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

SDS/eSDS Authoring: manage regulatory information with rulesbased chemical data management facilitating SDS authoring in accordance with regulations in 100+ countries and 40+ languages.

Change management (chemicals)

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Product Stewardship with Intelligent Authoring & Comply Plus

By Sphera

About

www.sphera.com

Sphera’s solution combines software, content and expertise to enable companies to more effectively manage product compliance and hazard communication requirements. The solutions enables you to efficiently create and automate compliant safety data sheets and labels by providing an extensive set of integrated global regulatory content with supporting rules & logic that is monitored and updated.

Functionality is available to allow easy tailoring of rules so that authors can effortlessly modify and enforce decisions about regulatory variables and grey areas affecting the content of SDSs. Furthermore the solution allows for GHS by Design, a unique functionality that allows authors to create a single set of documents targeted to several countries or apply an harmonized GHS logic for countries lacking an implementation.

insights@sphera.com

•

•

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

312-796-7160

Efficiently create and automate REACH and GHS compliant Satety Data Sheets, labels, SUMI and other compliance documents;

•

benefit from extensive global regulatory data and content that is monitored and updated. This includes rules, logic, templates, phrases, languages and industry specific guidelines;

•

leverage a product compliance analysis platform to assess regulatory impacts on your product portfolio;

•

• •

integrate effectively with other business systems, such as ERP, PLM and formulation management applications;

Regulatory compliance

fulfill REACH substance volume tracking requirements; proactively manage chemicals entering your facilities by ensuring proper reviews and approval of new materials; simplify SDS tracking and management; and consolidate chemical inventory data for regulatory reporting.

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

-

Worker safety

Product details

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Software type SaaS, Locally installed, Hosting & sustainment

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Hazard communication

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Rules, Templates, Regulatory, Phrases, languages

Incident management

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial. Automated SDS publishing & distribution

Partners •

ERM Consultancy

•

LinxAS Systems integrator

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Regulatory & authoring services

Core

Supply chain communication

Eng

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Enb

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Risk assessment

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Product Supply Chain Intelligence

By UL

About

www.psi.ul.com

Today’s global market is complex and businesses are inundated with rapidly changing demands. Varying legislation, corporate policies and buyer preferences present significant challenges to product development and profitability.

ul.psiinfo@ul.com

Companies around the world partner with UL to strengthen their supply chains, mitigate risk and develop safe, innovative products. Our solutions for R&D, Chemical Data Management, EHS, Supply Chain Management and Product Promotion are backed by world-class expertise.

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Engage UL to help you innovate, comply and promote with intelligence.

Functions/Capabilities

Features

Regulatory compliance

•

Supply chain product stewardship;

•

sustainability management;

•

supply chain risk management;

•

•

chemical hazard communication;

global regulations content database; and

•

chemical data management;

•

chemical materials selection;

•

international team of regulatory experts (70+).

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Enb Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Core

Other support services •

Free webinars

•

Training

•

White Papers

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, List of list regulatory database, navigator

Change management (chemicals)

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Prometheus

By Hibiscus-PLC

About

www.hibiscus-plc.co.uk

Prometheus is the perfect solution for creating, managing and distributing GHScompliant Safety Data Sheets for all major commercial markets. It utilises fully integrated regulatory phrases and classification content libraries, to deliver a global, user-friendly, SDS authoring and distribution platform.

enquiries@hibiscus-plc.com

Prometheus is flexible to configure and customise and purposely developed to automate the entire SDS process, reducing the time and cost of authoring and distribution. Create and publish multi-language SDSs in a matter of minutes, instead of days, without in-depth regulatory expertise and when the requirements change, you can revise and update your SDSs with ease.

• • •

•

Use templates to customise the appearance of SDSs to suit different customer/territory requirements;

•

user definable libraries allow rapid creation and translation;

•

supplied with SDS phrases in a comprehensive set of languages; achieve SDS revision control and track any changes. Set different access levels for different users;

Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Regulatory compliance

use independently, or integrate with Enterprise to solve all your hazardous chemical documentation and labelling needs - without dual entry of data.

Reporting

Change management (chemicals)

-

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Enb

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

-

Chemical safety prediction

-

Product compliance

-

Regulatory management Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Enb -

Chemical safety assessment

Product details

Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

-

Worker safety

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication

Pricing structure Licensed, Free trial

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Cst

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Partners •

Judson Consulting Service Software provider

Full material declaration

Enb

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

for delivery in EU countries;

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Regulatory compliance

can cover all major global compliance regulations and also accommodate for specific local legislation; and

new poison centre XML export feature allows documents to be prepared and written to XML files, conforming to the format specified

Software type Locally installed

Service areas

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

0113 242 4272

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PubliChem

By Lisam Systems

About

www.lisam.com

The PubliChem application was created in an effort to help companies comply with the REACH Standards for SDS archiving and distribution.

marketing@lisam.com

Its document management functionalities will help suppliers to safely store any document used for chemical safety purposes. In addition, PubliChem boasts advanced tracking functionalities to ensure the safe receipt of the sent documents.

Because it easily integrates with your existing systems, PubliChem will help you to bring SDS authoring and ERP information all together for a fully automated distribution job in multiple formats, multiple languages and for multiple regions.

Features •

•

Downstream user functionalities: • Document repository; and

distribution tracking: possibility to track the receipt and the reading of distributed documents;

•

interfaces with external systems; and

•

data import: Formats: XLS, XLSX, TXT, CVS, XML; and

•

•

permissions management.

document request.

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription, Free trial

Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals) Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

-

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance Regulatory management Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Core -

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management

Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

-

Worker safety

-

Environmental safety

-

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication SDS authoring

Content type Regulatory updates

SDS management

Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Stewardship

Core Core

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Product lifecycle management Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Other support services •

Lisam Systems events

•

Lisam Systems news

•

Lisam Systems free demo

Core -

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Regulatory compliance

Chemical safety assessment

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Service areas

Functions/Capabilities

Supplier functionalities: • Document management: storage of any kind of document related to a chemical (safety data sheets, labels, technical data sheets, specifications etc. and management of documents metadata: region, language, version, archived status; active and passive distribution: automatic distribution of safety data sheets based on orders information and documents updates. Distributed documents are also shared on the platform to downstream users via free restricted accounts;

00 32 67 49 00 03

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SAP EHS consultancy, support, maitenance and training By eSpheres

About

www.espheres.com

eSpheres, HSE Information management consultants, a Solvay spin-out and global leader in SAP®EHS consultancy delivering health, safety, environment (HSE) software and service solutions to organizations worldwide. Our in-depth IT solutions, SAP®EHS consultancy and out-tasking services help companies and institutions in improving their management of safety, industrial hygiene and occupational health processes.

philip.capel@espheres.com 0032 473 581 473

Service areas Regulatory compliance

Features

Chemical safety assessment

SAP®EHS Consulting: eSpheres supports projects and strengthens corporate EHS and IT departments by efficiently providing them with adequate resources to lead and implement SAP®EHS into any organization. We have a wide experience in implementations, project management and maintenance services. We are experts in SAP®EHS and HSE data management and have developed IT-tools to facilitate our customers’ use of their EHS system. eSpheres implement, deploy and integrate the SAP® EHS(M) modules and deliver quick and sustainable results. Expertise in product safety, SVT, Incident & accident, risk assessment, Vendor SDS management, waste management, IDMP and recipe management, global label management; dangerous goods, conflict minerals. Outsourced EHS regulatory content update (SERC, Sphera) for SAP product safety and SDS authoring. SAP®EHS Training: expert Rules creation, SDS release generation but also customer tailored SAP®EHS training programs. Software tools to file, extract and manage EHS data from SDS.pdf into XML, CSV files, to facilitate your HSE data management for SAP®EHS.

Stewardship

Hazard communications

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Product details

Chemical safety assessment

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

Pricing structure Licensed, Pay-per-use, Subscription Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Content type Database, Regulatory updates; Support; SAP; EHS content Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Regulatory content maintenance service, SAP EHS training

Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Partners REACHLaw Consultancy

Core

Supplier information

Core

ARCADIS Consultancy

-

Full material declaration Corporate social responsibility

•

-

Hazard communication

Other support services •

IT: EHS Project management

•

Vendor SDS management

•

Chemical management

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable, Out-tasking services

•

Cst

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SAP solutions for product compliance and environment, health and safety

By SAP SE

About

www.sap.com

For more than 45 years, SAP has driven innovation on behalf of our customers to help the world run better and improve people’s lives. Telling our purpose-driven story to the market shows how we grew to become one of the largest technology companies, dedicated to our customers, products, solutions, and people. By promising to help our customers innovate to run at their best coupled with our Intelligent Enterprise Suite of applications and networks to connect the front office to the back office, they can solve complex problems to address some of the world’s biggest challenges. This story enables employees to tell a consistent message that connects our commitment to helping every company become a best-run business by highlighting who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going to produce lifelong customers. Because it’s the best-run businesses that make the world run better. And the best run SAP.

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance

Features •

• •

Product marketability and chemical compliance to secure the right to market, sell, and ship products; health and safety management by taking a proactive approach ; safety data sheet and label management to ensure compliance and accelerate product introduction; environment management to reduce environmental impact;

•

dangerous goods management to avoid delivery delays and protect brand value;

•

•

management of change thorough review of operational changes, risk mitigation, and documentation approval; incident management to resolve safety issues and learn from incidents; and maintenance safety and permit to work through clear safety instructions and permits.

Product details

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

Content type Database, Regulatory updates Rule sets and SDS templates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration, Regulatory documentation

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS, EAM, PCS/DCS, Data historians

Systems integrator

Reporting

Cst

Substance volume tracking

Core

Hazardous material management

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

•

Opesus Systems integrator

Supply chain communication

•

LinxAS Systems integrator

•

SI PRO Systems integrator

Cst

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Cst

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Core

Other support services

Partners Accenture

Core

Hazard communication

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Locally installed

•

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

•

SAP for Chemicals

•

SAP Events

•

SAP Transformation Navigator

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

•

Change management (chemicals)

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SciveraLENS

By Scivera

About

www.scivera.com

Scivera is fundamentally changing the way brands and suppliers screen and select chemicals by providing fast and cost-effective access to better information. The SciveraLENS® platform enables you to complete web-based chemical assessments to support both product integrity and sustainable chemistry. The SciveraLENS platform allows everyone–from the smallest supplier to the largest brand–to create better products. Identify problematic chemicals, screen for safer alternatives, meet certification requirements, and share your chemical sustainability achievements while protecting your proprietary ingredient information. SciveraLENS enables an enhanced chemicals management process and complements testing requirements.

info@scivera.com

Service areas

Features

Functions/Capabilities

• •

•

•

request chemical data from subsuppliers for assessment while protecting supplier proprietary ingredient information;

•

•

screen chemicals and formulations against over 350 Regulatory, Restricted, and Preferred Substances Lists and Sublists (including REACH, CA Prop 65, and more);

•

review the human and environmental health (hazard assessment) attributes of your chemicals;

•

calculate estimated exposure and risk to chemicals for CA Prop 65 efforts, etc;

•

•

receive real-time alerts if any changes to lists or hazard assessments impact your chemicals of interest; prescreen new formulations against regulatory and brand (e.g., Nike, LS&Co, H&M, etc) requirements; screen alternatives to regulated or otherwise restricted chemicals; share your assessment results with full materials disclosure or in redacted form; certify your products and market your chemical sustainability achievements; and leverage our team of board-certified toxicologists with options to request priority services.

Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Cst

Substance volume tracking

Enb

Hazardous material management Chemical inventory management

Core Enb

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Cst

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS

Content type Database, Regulatory updates, Hazard, Exposure, Risk assessment Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Corporate social responsibility

Core

Other support services •

Screened Chemistry Assessment and Certification

•

Nike Innovation Assessments

•

LHAMA/TRA Assessments

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

Easily input your chemical, formulation, and product data;

+1 434 974 1301

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SiteHawk Communicator

By SiteHawk

About

www.sitehawk.com

SiteHawk is the global leader in SDS and chemical data management solutions. In an ever-changing EHS landscape, SiteHawk leverages innovative technology, robust data and world class services to set a higher standard for EHS processes. Successful EHS leaders in virtually every industry worldwide utilize our software solutions to maintain compliance, reduce risk, drive product development and make better business decisions.

info@sitehawk.com

Since 1993, SiteHawk has delivered unparalleled expertise and solutions to create safer, smarter workplaces, products and communities. To put it simply, SiteHawk knows chemical data.

SDS and Chemical Data Management SaaS Solution: Quickly access and manage SDSs; Automatically keep SDSs current with SDS Verification and Update Services; Print GHS compliant labels; Create chemical approval workflows; Cross-reference against 225 global regulatory lists; Provide global support with a UI in over 26 languages and data in over 80 languages.

•

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription

Hazard communications Stewardship

•

Regulatory compliance

Chemical Inventory Services: Improve compliance, reduce risk and minimize business disruption by letting our certified inventory specialists conduct your physical chemical inventory.

Chemical safety prediction

Integration capabilities PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Purchasing, Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

Partners Systems integrator

Chemical safety assessment

Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Chemical inventory management

Core

Intelex Systems integrator

•

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

-

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

-

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management Labelling

Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

Core

Supplier information

Core

Enablon Consultancy

-

Product compliance

Corporate social responsibility

•

-

Hazardous material management

Other support services •

Chemical inventory

•

Authoring

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Cority

Regulatory compliance

SDS Authoring Services: Our team of certified professionals simplifies the process from submission to document delivery. We take pride in a consultative approach with accuracy and safety being our top priorities.

Product details

•

Service areas

Functions/Capabilities

Features •

877-483-4295

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Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) Tool

By European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC)

About

www.ecetoc.org

ECETOC’s Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA) tool calculates the risk of exposure from chemicals to workers, consumers and the environment. It has been identified by the European Commission’s Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) as a preferred approach for evaluating consumer and worker health risks (ECHA, 2010 a,b):

info@ecetoc.org

ECHA. 2010a. REACH Technical Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment, Chapter R14: Occupational Exposure Estimation. European Chemicals Agency, Helsinki, Finland.

+32 2 675 3600

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

ECHA. 2010b. Guidance on information requirements and chemical safety assessment, Chapter R15: Consumer Exposure Estimation (Version 2, April 2010).

European Chemicals Agency, Helsinki, Finland. Addendum to TR114 : Technical Basis for the TRA v3.1 (June 2014).

These improvements now enable the information contained within developments such as the DUCC Specific Consumer Exposure Determinants to be suitably processed.

Features • • •

Addresses exposures to workers, consumers and the environment;

• •

optimised for the use descriptor requirements of REACH; ready ability to iterate impact of different RMMs and OCs on risk;

•

ability to run the tool in batch mode; MS Excel based: does not require access to skilled technical support to operate tool; and supported by extensive technical reports and user guidance.

Software type Locally installed

Integration capabilities REACH registration CSA obligations

User experience Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Exposure prediction via substance properties and use

Pricing structure Free Excel-based tool

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals) Data management (regulatory lists, substance data) Reporting

Core Core

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

-

Chemical safety prediction Product compliance

Cst

Regulatory management

-

Compliance assurance

-

Supply chain management

-

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

-

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication Supply chain communication SDS authoring

Cst

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

Core

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Product details

Functions/Capabilities

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ToxFMD Screened ChemistryTM Library

By ToxServices LLC

About

www.toxservices.com

ToxServices is a global provider of scientific consulting services designed to resolve complex human health, environmental health, and regulatory compliance issues.

ToxServices excels at providing toxicology, sustainability, alternatives assessment, and risk assessment consulting services to private and public sector clients. We strive to advance chemical optimization throughout the supply chain. The ToxFMD Screened Chemistry™ Library is an online subscription-based platform comprising the world’s largest collection of GreenScreen® for Safer Chemicals Assessments, as well as thousands of chemical profiles with points of departure. Consistent with ToxServices’s mission, the Library promotes sustainability and transparency through the selection of safer chemicals.

info@toxservices.com

Features •

•

•

comprehensive chemical profiles with GreenScreen® hazard executive summaries, benchmark scores,

functional class searching, general applications and uses, and toxicity data for 18 human health and environmental hazard endpoints; •

•

functional class searching incorporated into searching interface, with more than 100 different functional class categories indexed in the library; and thousands of chemical profiles with points of departure can be used for cosmetics and personal care products assessed for compliance with EU Cosmetics Regulation and medical devices/container closures being assessed against ISO 10993 and USP Standards.

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf Pricing structure Subscription, Free trial Integration capabilities EHS, Formula Management

Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

-

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

-

Reporting

-

Substance volume tracking

-

Hazardous material management

-

Chemical inventory management

-

Chemical safety prediction

Core

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Core -

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment

Core

Exposure assessment

Core

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Regulatory compliance

Content type Database, Hazard, Risk, Points of departure Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Toxicology

Supply chain communication

-

SDS authoring

-

SDS management

-

Incident management

-

Labelling

-

Stewardship Product lifecycle management

-

Full material declaration

-

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry Program

•

Levi Strauss & Co Screened Chemistry

•

ZDHC Certification Body

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

•

versatile resource to prescreen formulations for various program acceptability e.g. ToxFMD®, ZDHC MRSL Conformance, LS&Co. Screened Chemistry, LPC Material Health;

Service areas

Functions/Capabilities

User-friendly interface for rapid access to toxicity data from the world’s largest database of GreenScreen® assessments; authoritative information to identify safer alternatives and make scientifically informed decisions when choosing chemicals for products and processes;

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Veeva RegulatoryOne

By Veeva Systems Inc

About

www.industries.veeva.com

RegulatoryOne unifies and coordinates all facets of the regulatory process, providing you with visibility into what you’re selling, when you can sell it, and where it’s being sold – all in one place. This pure cloud offering replaces bespoke, manual systems with a single, authoritative solution for all your compliance and regulatory needs, providing you with the agility to respond to changing regulations. These efficiency gains improve your time to market, while providing transparency across your entire organization with each product release gate that a product passes through on its way to market.

info@industries.veeva.com +44 1865 398170

Service areas Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Features RegulatoryOne is your global authoritative source for regulatory compliance and product information.

Registrations • streamlines registration; • • •

fast, accurate responses; local accessibility with global visibility; and enables data driven decisions.

Submission • efficient authoring;

Publishing • end-to-end process in a single system; •

fewer steps; no file transfers;

•

continuous publishing; and

•

real time data sccess via the Cloud.

Functions/Capabilities Regulatory compliance Change management (chemicals)

Core

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Reporting

Core

Substance volume tracking

Core

Archive • full eCTD and NEES support;

Hazardous material management

Cst

Chemical inventory management

Core

•

powerful search & personal filters;

Chemical safety prediction

•

easy document link navigation; and

•

integrated submissions filter.

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance

Core

Supply chain management

Core

•

global alignment;

•

greater visibility; and

Chemical safety assessment

•

stronger compliance.

Hazard assessment Exposure assessment

Software type SaaS, Cloud based, Multi-tenant, Cloudbased SaaS User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable

Content type Manages dossier creation/submission Expertise Planning & management, Implementation, Integration

•

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Cst

Consumer safety

Cst

Hazard communication Supply chain communication

Core

SDS authoring

Core

SDS management

Core

Incident management

Core

Labelling

Core

Full material declaration Supplier information Corporate social responsibility

Other support services

Partners Systems integrator

Core

Product lifecycle management

Integration capabilities ERP, PLM, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS, Regulatory; Quality managment

Accenture

PWC Systems integrator

Cst

Risk assessment

Stewardship

Pricing structure Pay-per-use, Subscription

•

Cst

•

Deloitte Systems integrator

•

Salesforce.com Software provider

•

Veeva Professional Services

•

Veeva Managed Services

Enb Cst Core Cst

Cst - Customisable | Core - Core service | Enb - Enabled

Product details

Cst

Product compliance

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Yordas Hive

By Yordas Group

About

www.yordasgroup.com/hive

Yordas Hive is a comprehensive chemicals management solution that works with your data to bring you exactly the information that you need to stay compliant.

The wealth of accurate regulatory information, actively maintained by the experts at Yordas Group, works seamlessly with your own information to provide a powerful compliance solution.

hive@yordasgroup.com

As the solution of choice for product stewardship and regulatory compliance in a wide variety of industries, Yordas Hive offers a unique package of in-depth expertise, high quality current data and intuitive software features to support our customers to comply with chemical regulations and anticipate future business risks, providing a cost-effective and time-saving solution for manufacturers, formulators, distributors and retailers.

Hive Notifier: customised compliance updates to suit your business needs;

•

Hive Integrator: highly adaptable API solution for customised data access;

•

•

•

•

•

regulations: determine what regulatory barriers to market are for your business; substances : access to global regulatory data on over 250,000 substances; products : create your own in-house database of products to help you manage and maintain your compliance

User experience Customisable, Off-the-shelf, Configurable Pricing structure Licensed, Subscription, Free trial

Regulatory compliance Chemical safety assessment Hazard communications Stewardship

Functions/Capabilities

•

Change management (chemicals)

Core

materials: evaluate and manage the risk of non-compliance for your complex articles;

Data management (regulatory lists, substance data)

Core

Substance volume tracking

Cst

Safety Data Sheets: protect your workers by managing and distributing reliable safety information across multiple sites; and

Hazardous material management

Enb

Chemical inventory management

Core

Onboarding: we work with our customers to identify their challenges and expectations and provide an implementation service that helps gather, manage, qualify and implement their data into Yordas Hive.

Reporting

Chemical safety prediction

Enb

Enb

Product compliance

Core

Regulatory management

Core

Compliance assurance Supply chain management

Enb

Chemical safety assessment Hazard assessment Exposure assessment

-

Risk assessment

Core

Worker safety

Core

Environmental safety

Core

Consumer safety

Core

Hazard communication

Product details Software type SaaS, Cloud based

Service areas

Regulatory compliance

Features •

44 01524 594155

Supply chain communication

Integration capabilities ERP, EMIS, EHS, Formula Management, LIMS, API functionality Content type Database, Regulatory updates Expertise Implementation, Integration

SDS authoring SDS management Incident management Labelling

Enb Enb Core Core

Stewardship Product lifecycle management Full material declaration

Enb

Supplier information

-

Corporate social responsibility

-

Other support services •

Webinars

•

White papers

•

Training courses

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Directory Software solutions currently used by the Chemical Watch audience Software/service

Vendor/Provider

Website

3E Generate

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

3E Insight™ for Chemicals

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com

3E SDS™

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com/

Access

Microsoft

www.products.office.com/en-gb/access

ACD/Name

ACD/Labs

www.acdlabs.com

Active Steward

Penman Consulting

www.activesteward.com

Agile

Oracle

www.oracle.com

ALMEGO®

CHYMEIA ApS

www.chymeia.com

AlphaOmega

CHYMEIA ApS

www.chymeia.com

AMBIT

Cefic

www.cefic.org

Aspen PIMS™

AspenTech

www.aspentech.com

Assent Compliance Platform (ACP)

Assent Compliance

www.assentcompliance.com

BatchMaster ERP

BatchMaster Software

www.batchmaster.com

Bill of Materials Viewer

BOMCheck

www.bomcheck.net

BIOVIA™

Dassault Systèmes®

www.accelrys.com

BOM Check

thinkstep

www.bomcheck.net

BOM Manager

Silcon Expert

www.siliconexpert.com

C2P

Compliance & Risks

www.complianceandrisks.com

ChemAlert

Risk Management Technologies

www.rmtglobal.com

ChemAxon

ChemAxon

www.chemaxon.com

CHEMDOX®

CHEMDOX®

www.chemdox.com

ChemDraw

PerkinElmer

www.perkinelmer.co.uk

CHEMETER

SIAM

www.siam-it.com/en/solutions/safety-data-sheet-

ChemGes

DR-Software

www.dr-software.com/

Chemical EHS Management Software

ERA Environmental Management Solutions

www.era-environmental.com/industry/chemicals

Chemical ERP Software

TGI

www.tgiltd.com/

Chemical Health Environment Safety

Bureau Veritas

www.bureauveritas.com/

Chemical Inventory Management

Enviance

www.enviance.com/chemical-management-

Chemical Inventory Software

Sysflow

www.sysflow.co.uk/

Chemical Management Database (CMD)

Dynasys Solutions

www.cmd-system.com/

Chemical Management Navigator

M3V Data Management

www.m3vsoftware.com/chemical-management-

Chemical Management Software

Gensuite

Chemical Management Software

Enablon

Chemical Safety

Chemical Safety Software

www.chemicalsafety.com/

Chemical Safety Communication Software

UL

www.ul-scs.com/

Chemical Watch

Chemical Watch

www.chemicalwatch.com/

Chemicals Manufacturing ERP Software

BatchMaster

www.batchmaster.com/

Chemius

Bens Consulting

www.bens-consulting.com/en/

ChemKnowledge System

RightAnswer

www.rightanswer.com/index.php

ChemKnowledge® System

RightAnswer®

www.rightanswer.com/

ChemLabel Pro

DURA-ID

www.dura-id.com/printers-and-software/labelling-

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System (CHESS) software-solutions

navigator/ www.gensuite.com/products-and-services/ chemical-management-software/ www.enablon.com/applications/chemicalmanagement-software

software/ghs-label-software/chemlabelpro_ software1/ ChemLinked

REACH24H Consulting Group

www.chemlinked.com/

ChemManager

DHI

www.dhigroup.com/

Chempax

Datacor

www.datacor.com/

chemSHERPA

chemSHERPA

www.chemsherpa.net/chemSHERPA/english/

ChemSoft EH&S

ChemSoft

www.chemsoft.co.uk/

ChemSpider

Royal Society of Chemistry

www.chemspider.com/

Chemwatch

Chemwatch

www.chemwatch.net/

Chesar

ECHA

https://chesar.echa.europa.eu/

CHESSOL PIF Solution

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us/solutions/chessol-pifsolution/

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Cintellate

SAI Global

www.saiglobal.com/

Circular Economy Software

H2 Compliance

www.h2compliance.com//circular-economy-

Cloud-Based Compliance Software

Lorax Compliance

www.loraxcompliance.com/

CloudSDS

CloudSDS

www.cloudsds.com/home

Cognos

IBM

www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/business-

Compliance Data Exchange (CDX)

DXC Technology (DXC)

www.dxc.technology

Compliance Map Enterprise

The Compliance Map

www.thecompliancemap.com

Compliance reporting

Ithos Global

www.ithosglobal.com/index.html

Compliance Software

Nimonik

www.nimonik.com/

Coptis Lab

Coptis

www.coptis.com/

Cority Chemical Management for EHSQ

Cority

https://www.cority.com/

COSHH Essentials

HSE

www.hse.gov.uk/coshh/essentials/index.htm

COSHH Management Software

Alcumus Sypol

www.alcumusgroup.com/

Dakota

Dakota Software

www.dakotasoft.com/

DATABASE MANAGER and

Laboratory of Mathematical Chemistry

www.oasis-lmc.org/

Decernis

Decernis

www.decernis.com/

DeDoks

Trade Wind

www.twnl.nl/en/dedoks/

Derek Nexus

Lhasa Limited

www.lhasalimited.org/products/derek-nexus.htm

Dynamic Case Management

Appian

www.appian.com/resources/wp-dynamic-case-

software/

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CENTRALIZED DATABASE

management/ Dynamics Software

Microsoft

www.dynamicssoftware.com/

E-SDB

eska Engineering company mbH

www.eska.eu/

easyTRA

Jansen-Systems

www.jansen-systems.com/

Eco@web

EcoOnline

www.ecoonline.com/produkter/eco-publisher/

EcoWebDesk

EcoIntense GmbH

www.ecointense.com/

efam (Environmental Fate Automated

knoell

www.knoell.com

egsidaX

eska

www.eska.eu/gefahrstoffmanagement/egsida-x/

EH&S Software

Chemical Safety International

www.chemicalsafety.com/

EH&S Software

Enviance

www.enviance.com/

EHS & Quality Management Software

Intelex

www.intelex.com/

EHS & Risk Management Software

Enablon

www.enablon.com/

EHS Compliance Software

Quantum Compliance

www.usequantum.com/

EHS Compliance Suite

regAction

www.regaction.com/en/

EHS Enterprise Software Suite

ImageWave

www.imagewave.com/

EHS Insight

StarTex Software

www.startexsoftware.com/

EHS Management Software

Perillon

www.perillon.com/

EHS Management Software

SAP EHS

www.sap.com/index.html

EHS Software

EMEX

www.emex.com/

EHS Software

MIRS

www.mirsinfo.com/soft.htm

EHS Software

ProcessMAP

www.processmap.com/

EHS Software Partner Platforms

Enhesa

www.enhesa.com/

element1

H2 Compliance

www.h2compliance.com/

ENOVIA™ PLM

Dassault Systèmes®

www.3ds.com/en-uk/

Enterprise EHSQ Software

Cority

www.cority.com/ehsq-software/

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

EtQ

www.etq.com/

Epicor

Epicor Software Corporation

www.epicor.com/

EPOCH Environmental Compliance and

Logical Data Solutions, Inc.

www.logicalds.com/

EpyPlus

Telematic

www.epy.it/

EPYplus - Regulatory Compliance

Telematic

www.epy.it/

Euphor

Euphor

www.euphoreach.com/

ExESS

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us/

FACET

FERA

www.ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-topic/food-

Fasim 2.1

Philips Innovation Services

www.innovationservices.philips.com

Formulator Chem

Formulator Software

www.formulatorus.com/

FOUNDATION SDS Management

Cornerstone

www.corner-enviro.com/

gComply

Decernis

www.decernis.com/

Modelling)

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(QMS)

p.37

Software

Task Management Software

Software p.38

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gComply Plus

Decernis

www.decernis.com/

Gensuite SDS Systems

Gensuite

www.gensuite.com/

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GeSi³

GeSi Software GmbH

www.gesi.de/

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GHS Professional

UL

www.psi.ul.com/en/products/ghs-professional/

Global Data Brokerage Platform

ReachCentrum, an ERM Group company

www.reachcentrum.eu/

Global Environmental Management

Foresite Compliance Cloud

www.foresitesystems.com/

Global MSDS Solutions & Hazmix®

GlobalMSDS

www.globalmsds.co.uk/

GoChem

GoChem

www.gochem.co/

Granta MI

Granta Design

www.grantadesign.com/

Green Arrow Labs

Green Arrow Labs

www.greenarrowlabs.com/

GreenData Manager

GreenSoft Technology

www.greensofttech.com/site/

GreenScreen

GreenScreen

www.greenscreenchemicals.org

GUSAR

Infor

www.infor.com/

Hazex

Selerant

www.selerant.com/ehs-software/

hazMIN®

Logical Technology, Inc.

www.comply1.com/hazmin

HazMix

GlobalMSDS

www.globalmsds.co.uk/index.php

HELASOFT SERCure

HELASOFT

www.helasoft.com/?L=0

Heritage Environmental Information

Heritage

www.heritage-enviro.com/

Horizon Scanning

Decernis

www.decernis.com/

IBM Lotus Workflow

IBM

www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/lotus-workflow

ICTools

InfoChem

www.infochem.de/index.shtml

IMDS

DXC Technology

www.public.cdxsystem.com/en/web/cdx

InfoDyne

InfoDyne, Inc.

www.infodyne.fr/

Infor M3

Infor

www.infor.com/products/m3

Insight

DEKRA Insight

www.dekra-insight.com/en/

Intelligent Authoring On-Demand

Sphera

www.sphera.com/

Intelligent Compliance Solutions for

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com/

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com/

IPCA

IPCA

www.ipcasolutions.com/

iPoint Systems

iPoint Systems

www.ipoint-systems.com/

iSafeRat® Online

KREATiS

www.kreatis.eu/

iScienceSearch

Digital Science

www.isciencesearch.com/

IUCLID

ECHA

www.iuclid6.echa.europa.eu/

Keller Online

J. J. Keller & Associates

www.kelleronline.com/

Label Enterprise

Hibiscus-PLC

www.hibiscus-plc.co.uk/

Legislation Alert

Scitegrity

www.scitegrity.co.uk/

Lisam ExESS

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us/

LOLI Database (Lists Of LIsts)

UL

www.psi.ul.com/en/products/loli-database/

Lycos Athena

Lycos

www.lycos.ltd.uk/

Macola 10

Macola Software

www.macola.com/

Material Compliance Software

iPoint-systems GmbH

www.ipoint-systems.com/

MDL® ISIS/Base

AKos

www.akosgmbh.de/Archive/isis_base.htm

Mendix

Mendix

www.mendix.com/

Movex

Movex

www.movex.co.uk/

MSDGen

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com/

MSDS Authoring

ChemHaz Solutions

www.chemhazsolutions.com/

MSDSonline SDS/Chemical Management

Velocity EHS

www.msdsonline.com/

NCI Global - A CAS solution

CAS

www.cas.org/products/nci-global

NCI Global®

CAS

www.cas.org/

NCIS (National Chemicals Information

NCIS

www.ncis.nier.go.kr/en/mttrList.do

Paradigm 3

Paradigm Software

www.paradigm3.com.au/

Paros

Infor

www.infor.com/

Pharos Project

Pharos

www.pharosproject.net

PHAworks 5

Primatech

www.primatech.com

PI System™

OSIsoft

www.osisoft.com/

PLM and Compliance Cloud

Selerant

www.selerant.com/

PRISYM Chemica

PRISYM ID

www.prisymid.com/

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ProcessMAP Enterprise

ProcessMAP

www.processmap.com/solutions/enterprise/

Product Compliance Management

REACHECK Solutions GmbH

www.reacheck.eu/

Product Compliance Software

thinkstep

www.thinkstep.com/

Product Stewardship Services and

CGI

www.cgi.com/environment

Product Stewardship Software Solutions

Enablon

enablon.com/

Product Stewardship with Intelligent

Sphera

www.spherasolutions.com/

Product Supply Chain Intelligence

UL

www.psi.ul.com

ProductTraq

Baytouch

www.baytouch.com

ProductVision®

Advanced Software Design

www.asdsoftware.com/

Prometheus

Hibiscus PLC

www.hibiscus-plc.co.uk/

ProSteward360

CGI

www.cgi.com/environment

PTC Windchill

PTC

www.ptc.com/en/products/plm/plm-products/

PTC Windchill Product Analytics

PTC

www.ptc.com/en

PubliChem

Lisam Systems

www.lisam.com/en-us/

Q-Pulse

Ideagen

www.ideagen.com/products/q-pulse/

QSAR Toolbox

OECD

www.oecd.org/

QSARINS

University of Insubria

www.qsar.it/

Qualisys

Qualisys GmbH

www.qualisys.eu/index.php?id=102&L=2

QUMAS DocCompliance

Qumas (part of Biovia)

www.qumas.com/

REACH Compliance Software

iPoint-systems Gmbh

www.ipoint-systems.com/

REACH Delivery

REACH Delivery International

www.reachdelivery.com/reach.html

REACHAcross™

UL Environment

www.ulreachacross.com/

REACHGallery

ServiREACH

www.servireach.com/

REACHLINKED

Chemical Regulatory Services Ltd

www.reachlinked.com/

REACHSuite

Baytouch

www.reachsuite.com/

RegScan One™

RegScan

www.regscan.com/

Regulatory Change Management

Mitratech

www.mitratech.com/

Regulatory Compliance

Red-On-Line

www.red-on-line.com/

Regulatory Compliance tool

Airsweb

www.airsweb.com/

RoHS and REACH Compliance Software

Salve Software Services

www.salvesoft.com/

S-CIRCABC

European Commission

www.circabc.europa.eu/faces/jsp/extension/wai/

Safety Data Sheet Management

SafeTec

www.safetec.hsi.com/

Safety365

Sevron

www.sevron.co.uk/

SAP

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/about.html

SAP EHS

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/about.html

SAP EHS consultancy, support,

eSpheres

www.espheres.com/

SAP EHS ERD and ERC software

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/about.html

SAP PLM

SAP

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SAP S4/HANA

SAP

www.sap.com/uk/products/s4hana-erp.html

SAP solutions for product compliance and

SAP SE

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SciFinder®

CAS

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SciveraLENS®

Scivera

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SDS Factory

EcoMundo

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SDS Factory

Sigma-Aldrich

www.sigmaaldrich.com/united-kingdom.html

SDS Solutions

Global Safety Management®

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SDSPro (GHSPro)

MSDSpro

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SEIRICH

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Sevaluate™

TT Consulting

www.ttenvironmental.co.uk/

SiteHawk Communicator

SiteHawk

www.sitehawk.com/

SMART Chemical Inventory

Compliance Technology Group

www.compliancetechnologygroup.com/

SMARTdoc

SMARTdoc

www.smartdoc.eu/

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Soutron

www.soutron.com/

Sphera

Sphera

www.sphera.com/

SpheraCloud™

Sphera Solutions

www.spherasolutions.com/

Stoffenmanager®

Cosanta

www.stoffenmanager.nl/

SupplierSoft

SupplierSoft Inc.

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Supply Chain Guru

LLamasoft

www.llamasoft.com/supply-chain-guru-brochure/

Supply Chain Management

Decernis

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Enablon

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Targeted Risk Assessment (TRA)

European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of

www.ecetoc.org/

Chemicals (ECETOC) TDMS

ISA

www.isatest.com

Teamcenter

Siemens

www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en/

TERA

Toxicology and Risk Assessment

www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/

TinyTERM

Century Software

www.censoft.com/

ToxFMD Screened Chemistry™ Library

ToxServices LLC

www.toxservices.com

ToxNot

toxnot PBC

www.toxnot.com

ToxPlanet

ToxPlanet

www.toxplanet.com

TraceGains® Network

TraceGains

www.tracegains.com

TrackWise QMS Software and Solutions

Sparta Systems

www.spartasystems.com/products/trackwise-

UL Self-Service GHS SDS

UL The Wercs

www.ulghs.com

UMCO Hazard Communication Sytstem

UMCO

www.umco.de/en

Veeva RegulatoryOne

Veeva Systems Inc

www.industries.veeva.com/

VelocityEHS Platform

Velocity EHS

www.ehs.com/

Verisk 3E Generate

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com/

Verisk 3E Insight

Verisk 3E

www.verisk3e.com/

Vertére's Inventory Manager

Vertére

www.vertere.com/

WASPS Software

Environmental Science Ltd.

www.esldatasheets.com/ihomepage_c.html

Wercs

UL

www.ul.com/

WERCS Studio

UL

www.psi.ul.com/en/products/wercs-studio/

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