As we begin 2025, compliance deadlines are rapidly approaching. Chemical Safety Software’s (CSS) unique capabilities help your organization meet compliance requirements through streamlined chemical management tools.
Each month, we will dive into one of the CSS software modules, spanning topics from radioisotope tracking to facility safety to hazard labeling. Each article will outline the compliance requirements the module helps your facility meet. By the end of the year, you will have a better understanding of the value our systems bring to your organization.
This month, we are focusing on CSS’ Chemical Inventory Management tool, which utilizes a customizable dashboard to ensure the system best matches your needs. The tool allows for easy-to-manage onsite chemical inventory control directly from the inventory tab. Simply input your chemical inventory and keep track of your stock all in one place, promoting your compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) inventory list requirement.
When it is time to restock chemicals in your inventory or order new ones, the inventory management tool makes it easy to request chemical supplier authorization forms. Inputting chemical orders automatically triggers the generation of new Safety Data Sheet (SDS) records, adding them to your SDS library. The system is even compatible with mixtures of multiple chemicals, generating the appropriate SDSs for each component. This ability to quickly update your SDS library and create labels ensures your facilities comply with OSHA’s HazCom SDS and labeling requirements. The accessible nature of SDS data in the CSS system, including the SDS Parse feature, which quickly summarizes essential information from the SDS, makes SARA Tier II reporting seamless.
Particularly helpful features of the Chemical Inventory Management tool are its chemical compatibility recognition and inventory limit features, which use a built-in list of incompatible chemicals based on hazard type and SDS data to prevent unsafe or against-regulation storage of chemicals. When you enter a container transfer into your inventory system, a warning message will appear if you approach a limit. The system will deny the transfer if it violates an incompatibility or quantity regulation. It is even possible to customize regulations to your specific area. The incompatibility recognition capability helps create compliance for OSHA’s General Duty Clause for workers’ safety and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) incompatible chemical storage requirements. The quantity limits feature ensures compliance with EPA hazardous waste quantity limits, National Fire Protection and International Fire Code maximum allowable quantities of hazardous materials, and local rules for flammable, acid, or oxidizer chemical storage limits.
Lastly, this software module assists with compliance for regulations requiring wipe tests for storage containers, such as OSHA’s General Duty Clause, RCRA hazardous waste determinations, and OSHA’s Hazardous Communication requirements. The software helps monitor how often workers must test a certain chemical, easily prints labels for sending wipe sample containers for testing and maintains records of previous tests.
These features allow the Chemical Inventory Management tool to simplify your compliance work and expand protections for your employees and facility. Request a demo today to learn more!
Next month, we will examine another valuable CSS module, the GHS Labeling Software.