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CONTACTS Website
www.ul-scs.com
environment@ul.com
IT & Software 50%
23 British American Blvd, Latham, NY 12110, US +1 800 572 6501
Fax
+1 518 640 9299
Contact
Bridget Millen
Directors
Lou DeSorbo Tom Carter Eric Vangarderen Adam Sawyer Karen Lintz Alberto Uggetti Jim O’Keefe Doug Lockard Tony Worthan Anne Bonhoff Craig Rowlands
PROFILE: UL
Tel
Ownership
UL, LLC
Locations
44 Countries
Founded
1894
Consultancy/advisory 25%
SERVICES PROVIDED UL offers a unique mix of leading software automation tools and professional services to help clients achieve global hazard communication requirements, regulatory compliance, chemical data management and distribution, as well as supply chain risk mitigating solutions. EHS and SDS chemical data management solutions Utilised by regulatory departments worldwide, our flagship software, WERCS, is a robust hazcom solution to author, manage and distribute safety data sheets, labels and other chemical documents according to all local, national and international regulations, including GHS, EU-CLP and other global formats. As a true global, scalable and automated solution, WERCS compares regulatory rules against 5,300 monitored regulatory lists and results can be distributed in over 45 languages comprised of 21,000 credentialed phrases. Self service SDS – ULGHS.com
OVERVIEW UL provides leading and comprehensive software tools and services for: OO GHS SDS authoring, managing and distribution; OO retail and Industrial manufacturing supply chain compliance and data management solutions; OO REACH compliance software; OO predictive toxicology software; and OO green chemistry and sustainability solutions. After nearly 30 years in operation, in November 2013, The Wercs became part of the UL family, a trusted company, with a 120-year tradition and over 150 offices around the globe. UL’s principles are deeply rooted in science and dedicated to innovation for complex global supply chain challenges, holistically and efficiently. Today, UL software products and services are considered the gold standard in global regulatory and sustainability compliance solutions. VITAL STATISTICS
2015/16
Turnover, group
US $2bn
Designed to meet the needs of customers with small inventories, ULGHS. com is a self-service tool that allows users to quickly and accurately create an SDS through a secure web interface. Our proprietary logic tree of questions encodes everything you’ll need to be GHS-compliant, updating alongside evolving regulatory guidelines. Supply chain compliance The Wercs Supply Chain Compliance solutions uniquely combine regulatory content, localised expertise, and technology that provides customers with the ability to identify and manage risk within their supply chain. REACH compliance UL REACH Across software enables automated read-across for regulatory compliance through rapid, high throughput screening of chemicals to multiple end points. The tool is designed to help companies meet approaching REACH deadlines without the use of traditional testing methods such as animal testing, reducing cost and increasing speed.
No of offices
159
Predictive toxicology software
No of countries represented
113
UL’s chemical safety prediction software combines the world’s largest database of chemical health endpoints and predicts a chemical’s likelihood to produce adverse human health effects such as skin sensitisation, eye irritation, acute oral toxicity, and mutagenicity. The tool can estimate chemical toxicity prior to chemical synthesis and provide data for chemical substitution choices.
Staff, group Staff, chemical service provision
11,000 160
CORPORATE DEVELOPMENTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Page 214
1984
WERCS global hazcom software launched
2003
Wercs Professional Services founded
2006
WERCSmart Retail Platform created.
2013
The Wercs acquired by UL
2016
UL partners with Johns Hopkins researchers to develop UL REACH Across software Chemical Watch | Global Service Providers Guide 2017