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GHS - msds & label text Services
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GHS - Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals
Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Authoring services provide cost savings and process improvement. Outsourcing the authoring of SDSs can result in improved compliance, productivity gains and cost control.
Manufacturers and distributors of all sizes increasingly face challenges that result from globalization in the marketplace. This has a direct effect on the company's ability to efficiently and effectively produce and maintain currency of OSHA or WHMIS 2.0 SDSs, labels and hazard communication documents for their products.
Effective, compliant and up-to-date documents, especially SDSs, are not only a global requirement, but serve as the critical centerpiece for enabling effective product stewardship practices throughout the product's lifecycle.
In today's environment, merely producing an SDS is not enough. Quality, accuracy and currency are critical components to fulfilling the original intentions for requiring documentation in the first place.
Whether a company:
SDS Formats. We have the expertise to author SDSs to meet various regulations currently required to market your products internationally. Listed below are the standard formats we currently offer:
North American GHS Ready
European REACH SDS
European REACH / GHS (or CLP)
Australia GHS
Asia Pacific SDS
We can help ensure that your SDS's meet these requirements. Ask us how.
SDS Creations. Do you have new products to market? What about products that have no previous SDS available? Let us take on the task of writing them for your products.
Simply tell us which regulations you have to comply with, provide some minimal additional information and we will create the SDS from scratch for full compliance.
Based on your needs, we will ensure that all the necessary fields and phrases are on your SDS's – so that you may create a safety compliance program with complete and accurate information.
SDS Reformats. Do you have SDS's based on regulations other than OSHA, WHMIS and/or ANSI standards? Will you be importing or exporting to United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe? We can reformat your existing SDS's to the above standards. If you think you are non-compliant, don't worry, we will ensure it is fully compliant upon completion.
SDS Reviews. Are you unsure if your SDS's are complete? Do you know if information is missing?
Are all the hazards listed? If at any time you find yourself second-guessing, let us take the guesswork away and remove any doubts you have about your SDSs.
Our detailed reviews will provide insight into information that is missing, redundant, irrelevant, or incomplete. This way, your SDS's can be reformatted and/or updated to provide information in a concise manner – important in dire situations.
SDS Updates. Are your SDS's expired or expiring soon? Did the manufacturer provide new information? Has there been a formulation change to a product or regulation standard? If so, then ask us for an SDS update.
The update is available for customers who have SDS's done by us.
If you don't have SDS's done by us, don't worry – ask us about our SDS Reformats.
Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Authoring services provide cost savings and process improvement. Outsourcing the authoring of SDSs can result in improved compliance, productivity gains and cost control.
Manufacturers and distributors of all sizes increasingly face challenges that result from globalization in the marketplace. This has a direct effect on the company's ability to efficiently and effectively produce and maintain currency of OSHA or WHMIS 2.0 SDSs, labels and hazard communication documents for their products.
Effective, compliant and up-to-date documents, especially SDSs, are not only a global requirement, but serve as the critical centerpiece for enabling effective product stewardship practices throughout the product's lifecycle.
In today's environment, merely producing an SDS is not enough. Quality, accuracy and currency are critical components to fulfilling the original intentions for requiring documentation in the first place.
Whether a company:
- Has limited resources and needs to fully outsource SDS authoring activities
- Needs supplemental assistance
- Is looking to support its in-house staff
SDS Formats. We have the expertise to author SDSs to meet various regulations currently required to market your products internationally. Listed below are the standard formats we currently offer:
North American GHS Ready
- The 'North American GHS Ready' SDS is a 16-section SDS that follows the United Nation's (UN's) recommended 16 heading format.
- These SDS's not only follow the UN's GHS SDS format for the arrangement of sections, but their content also follows current U.S. OSHA and Canadian WHMIS regulatory requirements.
- Once the GHS is finalized in accordance with U.S. and Canadian regulations, your 'North American GHS Ready' SDS's will only require minor content updates to amend hazard information and terminology to match the GHS classification schemes.
European REACH SDS
- The European REACH SDS is a 16 section Safety Data Sheet that complies with the European Union's regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), Annex II (as amended).
- This European REACH SDS also has an arrangement of sections that is similar to the UN's GHS arrangement of sections, with slightly different section names.
- The EU REACH SDS is now available only for chemical products that are mixtures, with classifications based on Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, as amended, for the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations.
European REACH / GHS (or CLP)
- The European REACH / GHS (or CLP) SDS is a 16-section Safety Data Sheet that also complies with the EU's REACH Regulation, Annex II (as amended).
- Also has an arrangement of sections that is similar to the UN's GHS arrangement of sections, with slightly different section names, required for pure substances, and is optional (by request) for chemical products that are mixtures.
- All SDS's must comply with GHS before June 1, 2015. These SDS's provide classifications based on the EU's Regulation No. 1272/2008 for the classification, labelling and packaging of pure substances and mixtures, as amended. EU Regulation No. 1272/2008 is the EU's amendment of existing regulations to incorporate the UN's GHS.
Australia GHS
- These 16-section documents comply with the requirements outlined in the WHS regulations. Manufacturers and importers of chemicals are able to continue to use the existing SDS arrangements for workplace hazardous substances and dangerous goods up until 31 December 2016.
Asia Pacific SDS
- Many of the Asia pacific countries including China and Japan have adopted the GHS regulations into their hazard communication requirements.
We can help ensure that your SDS's meet these requirements. Ask us how.
SDS Creations. Do you have new products to market? What about products that have no previous SDS available? Let us take on the task of writing them for your products.
Simply tell us which regulations you have to comply with, provide some minimal additional information and we will create the SDS from scratch for full compliance.
Based on your needs, we will ensure that all the necessary fields and phrases are on your SDS's – so that you may create a safety compliance program with complete and accurate information.
SDS Reformats. Do you have SDS's based on regulations other than OSHA, WHMIS and/or ANSI standards? Will you be importing or exporting to United States, Canada, Mexico or Europe? We can reformat your existing SDS's to the above standards. If you think you are non-compliant, don't worry, we will ensure it is fully compliant upon completion.
SDS Reviews. Are you unsure if your SDS's are complete? Do you know if information is missing?
Are all the hazards listed? If at any time you find yourself second-guessing, let us take the guesswork away and remove any doubts you have about your SDSs.
Our detailed reviews will provide insight into information that is missing, redundant, irrelevant, or incomplete. This way, your SDS's can be reformatted and/or updated to provide information in a concise manner – important in dire situations.
SDS Updates. Are your SDS's expired or expiring soon? Did the manufacturer provide new information? Has there been a formulation change to a product or regulation standard? If so, then ask us for an SDS update.
The update is available for customers who have SDS's done by us.
If you don't have SDS's done by us, don't worry – ask us about our SDS Reformats.