I find institution-specific SDSs worth the overhead because I work in an academic institution where people are just learning how to look up chemical information. The internet is way too vast and if I don't limit what they are accessing, they end up pulling up SDSs for the wrong chemical or from unreliable websites. While this doesn‰??t 100% guarantee they will read the right one, it definitely makes it much more likely.

Monique Wilhelm
Laboratory Manager
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Michigan ‰?? Flint

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> >Does anyone on the list use ‰??Environmental Health and Safety Assistant‰?? by On Site Systems, particularly with respect to chemical inventories and SDSs?
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I wonder what the added value of such a service is relative to using manufacturer's web sites on the Internet to find SDS's or PubChem to find GHS information on specific chemicals? With GHS now available, I'm not sure that institution-specific SDS collections are worth the administrative overhead they present.

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Environmental Safety Manager
Keene State College
603 358-2859

ralph.stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu

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