MSDS Authoring Service | Globally Harmonized System GHS MSDS

MSDS Author - MSDS Authoring Service

To meet environmental safety management and product compliance demands in the workplace, many manufacturers today are significantly improving time to market and streamlining the MSDS authoring process.

The cornerstone task of an MSDS service is taking data from suppliers or from msds binders and making it digital and accessible 24/7, preferably in a format towards a globally harmonized system of classification and labelling or GHS. With Actio, companies rest assured they are distributing timely GHS MSDS sheets, complete with GHS labels as well as traditional MSDS labels.

Behr Process, ITW Devcon, Kester Solder and Saint Gobain are producing and distributing MSDS information to customers in record time – by investing in an outsourced MSDS service for document authoring. It's the first step manufacturers can take towards a complete product stewardship system.

Actio's MSDS Author is their product compliance solution. MSDS Author is a professional service that composes, publishes, and distributes finished product MSDS documents in various formats and languages for product compliance.

MSDS authoring services from Actio can leverage the information you already have -- from hard copies or from the raw materials SDS stored in MSDS Vault -- to generate an up-to-date finished product MSDS for easy reference for customers and resellers. Compliance demands that environmental safety management communication sheets contain certain MSDS labels and GHS label capability. Also, the data must be prepared so that it can be transferred into a GHS MSDS as soon as the globally harmonized system of classification and labeling of chemicals comes fully into universal law.

MSDS Authoring Challenge

To meet Global Regulatory Compliance (GRC) demands and manage environmental safety and hazard document regulations, companies that manufacture products containing certain materials must provide accurate, timely product compliance safety information to their customers.

In short, authoring and distributing MSDS information to customers is complex.

To comply, product manufacturers must prepare, and make available (prior to the release of that finished good) an accurate MSDS or Material Safety Data Sheet document. Timing is critical or there will be delays going to market. Raw material information, used to create your MSDS, based on your unique product formulation, must be up-to-date and accurate.

Further, depending on the industry, supporting documents like a package insert or a technical data sheet may be required. And now, with REACH regulation, producing an extended SDS under REACH requires downstream exposure scenarios based upon customer usage.

Once all the information is collected, the content must be analyzed against a variety of regulatory and research materials to determine whether any materials pose particular hazards which are elaborated upon in a very comprehensive, custom detailed MSDS. Continued management of this MSDS information requires that revisions be made if product formulations or global regulations change.

Soon you realize that managing the authoring, analysis, distribution and update process of MSDS information is not only complex, it is also time consuming, resource intensive and costly.

MSDS Authoring Solution

MSDS Author is a professional service and MSDS authoring solution that creates compliant MSDS’s on finished goods containing hazardous materials – communicating risk associated with human and environmental safety, ensuring worldwide product compliance, and lowering the total cost of ownership for producing these complex regulatory documents.

For a fraction of the cost of authoring your own MSDS, MSDS Author uses the raw material information stored in the MSDS Vault database to create MSDS information relevant to your unique product formulations. This information is then analyzed against Actio’s massive aggregation of regulatory content to identify potential hazards, health effects, and compliance requirements. The outcome is a comprehensive, custom, detailed database of your product information, which is used to generate MSDS for your customers around the world.

MSDS Author leverages the Actio platform’s database-driven technology, IntelligenTEXT™, which organizes MSDS data in defined fields in a database. Not only does IntelligenTEXT™ facilitate unlimited search, analysis and reporting capabilities, it also creates a dynamic content environment that can quickly respond to change. A change in your product formulations, supplier MSDS data, or global regulations simply requires an update to the platform’s centralized database. The updated information is immediately accessible to generate accurate, MSDS documents for your customers in the formats and languages required.

Unlike paper-based processes or systems that provide MSDS information as a static document, such as PDF format, MSDS Author uses standard forms already in the system to pull information from defined fields in the database to present MSDS-compliant information to users – eliminating the high cost of MSDS re-creation to satisfy local market requirements.

The result? Your customers have round-the-clock, online access to accurate, up-to-date MSDS documents – at a fraction of the cost than if you did it yourself.

Outsourced MSDS Authoring Benefits

As an outsourced service, MSDS Author automatically generates an MSDS on a finished good based on raw material information stored in MSDS Vault and the finished good product formulation
MSDS authoring service conducts extensive research with industry standard references and leverages a library of more than 2000 standard phrases creating an accurate and concise MSDS
Once generated, each MSDS supports a wide range of global formats and languages – ensuring 100% global compliance
With frequency of distribution determined by the manufacturer, the platform automatically distributes MSDS information via email, fax, or direct link to a customer’s online catalog or product information page
Professionally branded MSDS with company colors and logo enhances your corporate image
Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) with no hardware and software to purchase and maintain providing faster time to benefit and lower total cost of ownership

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