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Alternatives for Safety Data Sheet Creation

Manufacturers, suppliers and distributors of hazardous substances are required to check their Material Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for obvious defects and deficiencies and to keep the documents always in an up-to-date and complete form. Here we can help you! In addition to the professional preparation of Safety Data Sheets, we also offer appropriate alternatives. You have the choice, which solution you want to take.

Problems with Manual Processing of Safety Data Sheets

From daily experience, we know that the ever-increasing amounts of data are a real challenge for many companies. The times of Copy & Paste in word processing are over for most companies.Nevertheless, some of them still use manual methods for creating Savety Data Sheets. This can be problematic, in the sense of time consuming and burdensome, especially if you eventually need further Safety Data Sheets or an additional language. Furthermore, you must manually insert every change in the law into the details of the layout by yourself.

SDB Online Services and Their Limitations

The most cost-effective solution when creating Safety Data Sheets are at first glance online services. However, these usually do not offer any assistance functions - so they act only as form editors. If a phrase package such as EuPhraC is stored, there is the possibility of automatic translation into other languages. However, this does not mean that the adaptation to the respective national law has been completed. You also must possess therequired expertise.

Looking for Hazmat Software?

Software costs license fees – for the first buy, but also for the necessary updates to cover legislation changes.Depending on the scope of services and providers, you must expect between 4,000 and five-figureamounts for the first license. These updates usually cost 12% to 20% of the initial amount, per year. After your company has installed the software you need literature (and need to read it). Then you are prepared to do the Safety Data Sheet work which costs a major amount of time and money. Here, you also must be able to prove the necessary expertise.

Better Customer Service with Outsourcing

Did you ever need just one Safety Data Sheet in a special language, for a valued customer who sells once to a foreign country? With a software, you would buy an additional language pack which often makes this service almost unaffordable. SUMDAT fees are not calculated by languages, but by product/language combinations. Thus you can order product A in Greek and Russian, and product B in French and Turkish. An additional language for A or B costs you just a small amount of Euros (which differs depending on the price model) and will easily be covered by the new order. The proof of our expertise is provided by your Hazmat Backoffice. As a service provider, Qualisys also offers you the advantage of researching regulatory data almost anywhere in the world. This guarantees high competence and support. If you still need to maintain manually created Safety Data Sheets, you may be interested in the standard EuPhraC texts or BDI phrases you can order directly from Qualisys. Or you just choose our data service SUMDAT solo, which covers all individual texts.