OHS Industry Solutions

OHS Industry Solutions

Chemical
Manufacturers

General
Manufacturing

Research &
Development

Hazardous
Materials Handling

Chemical Manufacturers

OHS provides outsourcing solutions for chemical manufacturers who develop, produce or market chemical substances. These customers turn to OHS for a variety of chemical information management services. Their greatest need is in the area of MSDS Authoring and Distribution, a core service for OHS.

OHS MSDS Authoring offers chemical companies a resource for outsourcing the critical function of researching, writing and maintaining product MSDSs. These companies spend millions in providing OSHA compliant MSDSs for their products and OHS can reduce their costs. Savings can be reallocated to other core activities within Product Safety/ Stewardship while relieving EH&S professionals of enormous administrative drain.

Chemical companies also need OHS MSDS Distribution Services to meet OSHA compliance, improve customer service and reduce costs. OHS offers a technologically-advanced solution that guarantees MSDS delivery. Product sales drive this automated solution, which includes mailed, faxed or e-mailed MSDSs to any customer in the world. The OHS service includes electronic reports and audit systems for the highest quality results.

Examples of important chemical industries using OHS MSDS Outsourcing services include chemical manufacturers, pharmaceutical, petroleum and gas businesses. Industry leaders like BP, Wyeth, and Matheson Tri-Gas rely on OHS for MSDS related services, software and data.

Read about companies who use our solutions:

Wyeth
Binney & Smith

OHS helps address many business issues relating to chemical data management for chemical manufacturers:

Outsourcing Services:
OHS MSDS Authoring Outsourcing
OHS MSDS Distribution Services
OHS MyMSDSnet
OHS Custom Data Services

MSDS Data:
OHS Pure Substance Database
OHS Mixture Substance Database
OHS EH&S Data Elements

General Manufacturing

The goal of manufacturing processes is finished products for business or consumer markets. Chemicals play a role as product components or are used in the manufacturing process. Manufacturers require quality vendor MSDSs to achieve EH&S compliance and employee safety standards.

Each business sector looks for Hazard Communication solutions that integrate with the entire company. Having up-to-date, reliable MSDSs, in a system employees can access easily, is critical. Consistent data and standardized MSDS formats must be available for employee access. The OHS HazCom System can solve these challenges.

Companies also require the data found in their vendor MSDSs for use in inventory management and regulatory reporting systems. Whether an ERP system or Regulatory management system, OHS EH&S Data Elements can provide the MSDS related data for the entire organization to access. This database is formatted for easy loading into relational or other database applications.

Systems for Hazard Communication are viewed as an expense not directly tied to the business. Cost reduction, employee access and understanding and safety standards are challenges for every manufacturer. Resources are often minimized to get the best value for the least costs. OHS offers standard and custom solutions to achieve many business objectives.

All sectors of manufacturing need reliable and up-to-date solutions for communicating hazards in the workplace. OHS serves a variety of industries including telecommunications, utilities, consumer goods, food & beverage, computers/electronics, paper textiles, and transportation.

Research & Development

Research & Development organizations have special needs related to environmental, health and safety. The audience for MSDSs is highly technical and scientifically-oriented. These employees need health and safety information for a wide variety of chemicals as they consider formulas for further researching. Today's global companies need enterprise-wide data for reference regardless of employee location or concentration.

OHS helps address many business issues relating to chemical data management for R&D organizations with standard OHS MSDS databases:

Presents comprehensive and accurate information to help researchers protect themselves
Provides hazard information integrated with chemical supplier information to help make prudent purchasing decisions
Provides information to support "green" product development
Alleviates searching through multiple sources for key hazard information
Offers data in multiple global languages: U.S. English, UK English, Canadian French, Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Brazilian Portuguese.

OHS customers often choose a combination of MSDS services, data and software to support their R&D operations:

OHS Pure Substance and OHS Mixture Substance Databases provide the most comprehensive, current and accurate MSDSs, covering a wide variety of research chemicals for all employees needing standardized data. Over 58,000 independently-researched MSDSs exist for the most common chemical substances.
OHS Global Reference System provides an electronic repository of OHS MSDSs and other chemical databases to employees worldwide using MSDS management software, OHS data and Internet technology. Translated MSDSs in many different languages provide a truly global data resource.
MDL Available Chemicals Directory database A link exists for ACD, which integrates MSDSs with the MDL Available Chemicals Directory database, providing safety and hazard information for commercial chemicals to help your scientists make purchasing decisions.

Read about companies who use our solutions:

Wyeth

Outsourcing Services:
OHS MyMSDSnet
OHS Custom Data Services

MSDS Data:
OHS Pure Substance Database
OHS Mixture Substance Database
OHS EH&S Data Elements

Hazardous Materials Handling

Communication of chemical hazards to waste management, emergency response, hazardous clean up and disposal, and EH&S personnel is critical. Experts in these areas need chemical data that is accurate, up-to-date, complete, and easy to access. Unsafe or volatile situations and immediate decision-making require quality MSDSs.

OHS is a resource for premium MSDS collections available in a variety of formats to meet requirements for access in all areas of Hazardous Material Handling. When workers are at risk, quality MSDSs are a safety insurance that helps in managing emergencies.

MDL helps address these business issues for Safety Departments:

Present comprehensive and accurate information for worker safety and hazards handling
Minimize resources required to update and maintain your MSDS collection
Increase worker understanding through consistency in MSDS format
Provide uniformity of data between your inventory, regulatory reports, labels and MSDSs

OHS customers often choose a combination of MSDS services, data and software to support their EH&S standards for hazardous materials handling:

OHS MSDS ON DISC is an individual use licensed product that contains health and safety information in the form of OHS Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), Summary Sheets, Label Information Sheets, and U.S. Codes of Federal Regulations.
OHS MSDSs are independently researched resulting in the most comprehensive and accurate MSDS collection available commercially. All OHS MSDS databases are updated quarterly ensuring up-to-date information, giving you a reliable resource of MSDSs for commonly used chemicals.
OHS HazCom System helps you provide the most comprehensive, current, and accurate MSDSs to your employees. MSDS management software can help you make MSDSs available to your employees via the Internet. Data options include OHS Pure Substance and OHS Mixture Substance Databases, Vendor MSDSs and language translations.

Outsourcing Services:
OHS MyMSDSnet
OHS Custom Data Services
OHS Fast Fax
Emergency Response through CHEMTREC

MSDS Data:
OHS MSDS ON DISC
OHS HazCom System
OHS EH&S Data Elements

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