EH&S Compliance

It’s estimated that more than 5 million facilities in North America alone handle chemical materials. In the United States, OSHA reports that more than 40 million American workers are exposed to hazardous chemicals in the workplace each year.

OSHA and its counterparts in nations around the world – such as Health Canada (WHMIS), EU-OSHA and the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety, Japan (JNIOSH) – were established to ensure the safety of workers by setting and enforcing standards, providing training, outreach and education and encouraging continual process improvement in environmental health and safety compliance.

These standards, while noble in intent, have created compliance burdens for businesses (large and small) through ambiguous environmental health and safety regulations, stiff enforcement and time-consuming reporting processes that are still largely handled via inefficient and labor-intensive manual paper-based systems.

Today, as concern over the environment heightens, the cost of non-compliance is not just limited to penalties and fines. Failure to comply with various EH&S regulations or practicing good environmental stewardship can lead to: increased workplace incidents, increased employee days away from work, higher workers’ compensation claims, operational slowdowns or shutdowns, potential legal and litigation expenses, as well as a negative impact on a company’s overall image.

MSDSonline has responded by developing revolutionary, on-demand (cloud-computing), EH&S compliance management solutions. These solutions were created to help safety professionals better understand and manage risks, simplify compliance, promote a safer work environment and implement sustainability practices throughout their organization. Modular in design, the MSDSonline Web-based platform integrates a robust suite of MSDS management, chemical inventory management, environmental and regulatory reporting, workplace injury and illness recordkeeping and safety training capabilities into one affordable and easy-to-use system, now accessible to all businesses.

• MSDS Management & Compliance — MSDSonline pioneered online MSDS access, management and employee Right-to-Know compliance solutions more than a decade ago. MSDSonline combines access to the industry-leading database of manufacturer-original safety data sheets with easy-to-use inventory management and MSDS deployment tools. This enables more cost-effective compliance with the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS: 29 CFR 1910), Canada’s Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) requirements, as well as the more recently adopted elements of the Globally Harmonized System of the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
• Chemical Inventory Management — MSDSonline understands that properly maintaining regulated materials in your inventory starts with a clear understanding of exactly what chemicals are on site, where they are used and stored, the precise quantities of each, and that each chemical has an accurate and up-to-date material safety data sheet. To do this, MSDSonline has built powerful container-level chemical management, tracking and compliance reporting tools to help you maintain a complete and accurate picture of the chemical hazards in your work environment. Advanced chemical approval and notification workflow enables you to control what chemicals are accepted, before they arrive, allowing you to better manage hazardous chemicals or stop banned chemicals from being introduced into your workplace.
• Environmental & Regulatory Reporting — MSDSonline has developed a sophisticated regulatory cross-referencing engine that automatically identifies products and ingredients that are regulated on various state, federal and international hazardous substance lists. Used in conjunction with the MSDSonline chemical inventory management tools, you have a powerful, all-encompassing system that enables you to better understand the material composition of the products you use, simplify environmental and regulatory compliance reporting requirements, and move toward using sustainable and renewable raw materials.
• Injury & Illness Recordkeeping — MSDSonline has built a comprehensive Incident Management application designed to centralize the recording, tracking and reporting of workplace injuries, illnesses, exposures and other incidents in order to streamline compliance with OSHA’s Recordkeeping Standard (29 CFR 1904). This easy-to-use Web-based system lets you consolidate all of your workplace incident information into one convenient application. Here, you can run analytics to better identify workplace hazards, understand root causes and implement corrective actions in order to build a culture of zero-incidents within your work environment.
• Workpalce Training — Compliance with federal and state regulatory requirements, coupled with an effective training program can help companies reduce costs, injuries and illnesses. Our on-demand environmental health and safety training solutions offer access to dozens of EH&S-related courses with affordable pricing and flexible deployment options — all designed to keep your employees safe, productive and on the job.
• EH&S Regulatory Assistance — Environmental health and safety compliance and training are ever-changing and complex, especially when companies must adhere to state-specific and federal regulations. MSDSonline introduced on-demand regulatory environmental compliance tool kits to provide safety professionals with one comprehensive place to access hundreds of downloadable and customizable training and assessment resources, including: inspection checklists, federal and state compliance analyses, best practices, regulatory developments, daily news feeds and more.

Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) professionals are continuously asked to do more with fewer resources. The demands for staying compliant are getting more difficult no matter what industry you’re in or how big your organization. Managing your chemical inventory and training your employees on how to evaluate and avoid risks from hazards is critical to your business.

A minor accident or chemical exposure can have serious implications in terms of lost productivity, skyrocketing insurance costs and workers’ compensation claims, not to mention possible litigation costs and fines for non-compliance.

At MSDSonline, our goal is to deliver easy-to-use, on-demand solutions that help you promote safer work conditions, while at the same time, help you complete your work more cost effectively. We aim to drive long-term value by providing products and services that become indispensable to you in meeting your day-to-day safety management and compliance needs.

We believe the quality of our MSDS content is just as important as the quantity. That’s why we employ a team of experts who continuously review, acquire and add new or updated MSDSs on a weekly basis. We review our MSDS library on a regular basis to ensure you have access to up-to-date and relevant MSDSs. And, if we don’t have an MSDS you’re looking for, we’ll get it for you.

We have partnered with some of the best names in the industry to deliver immediate access to important safety information as well as local, state, national and global compliance resources. We’ve also built in a great deal of flexibility into our products, enabling you to add customized news and internal safety information.

By leveraging cutting-edge technology and best-practices, we develop products and services that create efficiencies and lower the cost of MSDS/chemical management and hazard communication compliance. All of our products are designed for environmental health and safety professionals with continuous input and feedback from safety professionals to ensure ongoing quality improvements and relevant product features and enhancements.

If you have comments or suggestions, we want to hear from you.

We believe in creating life-long partnerships with each and every one of our customers in order to understand your unique business challenges and to assist you in meeting your ever-evolving compliance goals and objectives. Our Customer Care Team is dedicated to bridging the gap between our products’ technological capabilities and your unique business requirements. We offer a full complement of services – all designed to help you centralize your compliance initiatives across your organization.

And when it comes to support, we don't just set you up and walk away. Our technical support representatives are always just a phone call or e-mail away to make sure you’re up and running and receive quality support along the way.