Safety Data Sheet updates

[Z06killinsbf]

Does anyone know of a company that will maintain an automatic update to revisions to Safety Data Sheets (formerly MSDS's)? My group has 13 out of state site locations and I've been tasked with coming up with "the plan" to keep them all up to date and in OSHA standards with the SDS booklets. I checked on Safety Emporium and some of the big sites but they are just saying it's up to the user to keep the books up to date.

Any help from someone with experience in this?

[Baron Von Crowder]

Have you looked into electronic MSDS?

[Z06killinsbf]

Have you looked into electronic MSDS?

As in having an E-copy on your computer?

[Z06killinsbf]

So here is what I found, is this what I'm looking for?

http://www.ilpi.com/msds/software.html

[Craizie]

Just like an MSDS file, the manufacturer of the chemical is the one required to produce the SDS. I would task a person at each location to take each MSDS and call the manufacturer's number listed. Ask them to email over the updated SDS.

Also, in order to maintain compliance, ALL employees need an updated HAZCOM training with the changes in labeling, SDS and everything else associated with the GHS.

I've been a Hazmat certified air shipper for four years now and have no clue in how to label, package, or fill out an AWB. The training / test are a joke.

[svauto-erotic855]

They usually don't care, just that you have a cert showing that you were trained. Funny how that works. The Navy had me take that certification when I was shipping contaminated soil from Guam back to the States. I can't even remember one question on the test.

They seriously shipped dirty dirt half way around the world? WTF is the logic in doing that?

[Z06killinsbf]

Just like an MSDS file, the manufacturer of the chemical is the one required to produce the SDS. I would task a person at each location to take each MSDS and call the manufacturer's number listed. Ask them to email over the updated SDS.

Also, in order to maintain compliance, ALL employees need an updated HAZCOM training with the changes in labeling, SDS and everything else associated with the GHS.

We all get hazmat training but focuses on shipping and storing LiIon batteries mainly.

[Ruffdaddy]

Make a bs plan on how you will deligate all of it. Thats what management wants to see. Assign some chode to take inventory of all chemicals at each site but you gotta give him some title like chemical safety officer that makes him think he will get noticed by management

Then, assign another chode as the assistant CSO, and give him the amazingly hard task of going onto google.com and looking up the new sds.

As long as theres a plan, the company can check the box. You will be warned before an external audit most likely.

[Ruffdaddy]

Or are you the chode that got tricked into the bitch work?

[Craizie]

We all get hazmat training but focuses on shipping and storing LiIon batteries mainly.

They aren't treated in the same way other hazmat materials are, at least not in the freight industry.

[Z06killinsbf]

Or are you the chode that got tricked into the bitch work?

I'm the chode

[Z06killinsbf]

They aren't treated in the same way other hazmat materials are, at least not in the freight industry.

Correct, I'm just talking hazmat locker shit.

[Ruffdaddy]

LOL!!! Beat me to it!

I'm the chode

Lol...awesome. if youre still at PaPa RTN...they always had that problem. Way too top heavy with like 15% efficiency. You didnt get proper raises because it was so damn top heavy, and very few of the middle management could do real work.

I always said you could cut the defense budget by 25% and not notice a difference if you made defense contractors shake the dead weight.

[Z06killinsbf]

Lol...awesome. if youre still at PaPa RTN...they always had that problem. Way too top heavy with like 15% efficiency. You didnt get proper raises because it was so damn top heavy, and very few of the middle management could do real work.

I always said you could cut the defense budget by 25% and not notice a difference if you made defense contractors shake the dead weight.

Yup still here but RTSC gig out bid by an outside company for my group a couple years ago so I'm a contractor now, but yes no upward movement.