The Importance of an Up-to-date Chemical & Control Inventory
It's spring and a perfect time to review your chemical inventory. Are you accounting for all of your chemicals and controls required to reduce exposure? Are you aware that an accurate and thorough inventory is the foundation for many aspects of your Health, Safety and Environment programs? This Chemscape presentation will discuss the importance of doing a regular chemical inventory and guidelines to get you started spring cleaning your chemical inventory. View the video presentation also in PowerPoint format in msdsBinders.
10 Reasons to do your Chemical Inventory:
Be aware of all physical, health and environmental hazards on-site.
Ensure your SDS Binder matches the product inventory.
See if you can eliminate or substitute high hazard chemicals? See if you require additional monitoring or exposure tracking for chemicals of concern. Do you need additional communication plans (i.e. code of practice, exposure control plans)?
Evaluate if storage of your chemicals is compatible, secure, and properly labelled.
Dispose of unused/obsolete chemicals to minimize the type and the quantity of chemicals in storage. Some chemicals have an expiry date and their chemical state changes over time to become reactive or explosive.
Ensure PPE inventory matches the hazards of your chemical inventory.
Check if training/education needs to be updated for the hazards on hand.
Verify changing environmental regulations of the products you keep.
See if you can optimize chemical purchasing.
Check if your emergency plans are up-to-date. If there is an incident do you have an awareness of what exactly is onsite and where it is stored?
Looking for some training on msdsBinders?
Chemscape is opening up 25 slots for a 30-minute msdsBinders training session for end users on the basics of the system on March 29, 2017 at 11:00am MST. Attend training at your desktop; an internet connection is all that is required.
Contact us to reserve a spot.
We would be happy to help with any product or Health & Safety concern. Our personalized service sets us apart. Chemscape provides this newsletter to our valued clients with resources that can be used in health and safety meetings.
For more information contact your Chemscape representative, or call us Toll-Free: 1-855-720-MSDS (6737) or [email protected].
