COMMITMENT TO GLOBAL COMPLIANCE
SDS Regulatory & Compliance
TotalSDS simplifies regulatory compliance and offers professional services for your SDS needs.
Customers should use SDS (Safety Data Sheet) consulting from TotalSDS when they need expert assistance in managing, creating, or updating safety data sheets to ensure compliance with regulations like OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), GHS (Globally Harmonized System), or other regional safety regulations. Here are specific situations when TotalSDS’s consulting services are beneficial:
- Regulatory Compliance: If a customer is unsure whether their SDS documents are compliant with the latest safety regulations or needs help updating them.
- New Product Development: When introducing new chemicals or products, customers may need help in authoring SDSs that align with specific compliance frameworks.
- Internal Audits or External Inspections: Prior to audits, inspections, or third-party reviews, companies may require expert validation or updates to ensure their SDSs are accurate and up-to-date.
- International Expansion: When a company plans to distribute products in new countries, they may need SDSs tailored to local languages and regulatory requirements.
- SDS Authoring: For businesses lacking in-house expertise in creating SDSs for new or existing chemicals.
- Hazard Classification: Customers may need guidance in determining the correct hazard classification for their chemicals or products, ensuring that the SDS reflects all potential risks.
- Chemical Inventory Management: For companies that need help organizing or streamlining their chemical inventory and SDS documentation to align with regulatory standards.
- Special Projects or Revisions: When a customer undergoes major changes in manufacturing, formulation, or legal requirements that necessitate a revision of their existing SDSs.
This specialized consulting can save time, ensure compliance, and minimize legal risks for companies handling hazardous materials.
HOW IT WORKS: REGULATORY TEAM & TOTALSDS AUTHOR™
Regulatory Support by TotalSDS
SDS Authoring and Updates
Creation: Drafting new Safety Data Sheets according to global regulations.
Revisions: Updating existing SDSs to reflect new data, regulatory changes, or updated classification and labeling.
Regulatory Compliance
Gap Analysis: Identifying and addressing compliance gaps in existing documentation.
Transportation Classification
Transport Classification Calculation: Determining the appropriate transportation classification for chemicals based on regulatory criteria.
Hazard Communication
Training: Providing training sessions on understanding and using SDSs and labels.
Consultation: Advising on best practices for hazard communication and safe handling of chemicals.
Consultation and Support
Technical Support: Offering guidance on specific technical questions related to chemical safety and compliance.
Regulatory Submissions Guidance: Provide guidance and guidance materials on submissions such as Poison Center Notifications.
Confidential Business Information Management
Ingredient Masking: Assisting customers in concealing ingredient information to the maximum extent possible while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
Classification and Labeling
Product Classification Assessment: Helping customers with product classification, especially for criteria not in the wizard such as Acute Toxicity and Aquatic Toxicity hazards. Additionally, evaluating whether certain physical hazards apply to a product when test data or information is limited.
Label Development: Creating compliant labels, including hazard pictograms, signal words, hazard statements, and precautionary statements.
Regulatory Compliance Solutions
TotalSDS® compliance company simplifies compliance and chemical information documentation. Our regulatory and compliance consulting firm has worked with manufacturers, distributors, and end users to ensure proper documentation that follows global regulatory requirements. Organizations often face changing regulatory environments set forth by government jurisdictions. Adopting and adhering to new guidelines can present challenges.
With our regulatory consulting services — and with access to our safety regulatory software tools – TotalSDS is changing the way companies handle chemical and product safety information. We support a variety of industries; learn more about our professional consulting services below.
No Chemical Expertise Needed
You don’t need to be a regulatory or chemical expert to create GHS compliant SDSs. Our compliance consulting team sets you up for success and when the regulations change, you can revise and update your safety data sheets (SDS) with a click of the mouse. If you need regulatory advice, our regulatory team is with you every step of the way. By partnering with TotalSDS, you have access to a full regulatory consulting firm. Our team can analyze your products and materials to provide the expertise you need to manage your products and the chemical hazards within them.
Keeping You GHS Compliant
As the GHS standards transformed “MSDSs” into SDSs, managing the compliance process is a tedious, time-consuming and complicated effort that requires a specialized EHS knowledge base. Even if you have a full-time compliance staff, our team or software can be an integral part of your SDS needs, saving you the time and money to focus on what is important to your business!
We’ve established a respected track record of working with our clients when their problems are not a turnkey affair. We understand that every company and team has its own challenges; sometimes those challenges require direct problem solving and a dedicated solution. Get in touch today to get started.
Transform Your Compliance Processes
We help reduce complexities. New standards and changing regulatory requirements can cause challenges for many businesses. Compliance tools and SDS software can help transform compliance processes, produce better efficiencies and ensure safety for the workplace and workers. Working with TotalSDS gives you access to a full compliance regulatory team and our leading SDS authoring software. Learn how our compliance team is uniquely qualified to assist with your compliance needs.
