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MSDS Guru

Offering Material Safety Data Sheet search service

    

What the regs require
The OSHA Hazard Communication Standard requires (in part) that all employers provide their employees access to the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for the chemicals products that they use or may come in contact with at your facility. The MSDS must be readily accessible to all employees.


Our View:  E&SSG has provided a multitude of comprehensive Environmental and Safety solutions for more than 15 years. This innovative Web-based MSDS Management Service solution gives you 24/7/365 access to your company’s MSDS as well as a system to help manage them.

What We Offer
MSDS Guru Online MSDS Management Service
E&SSG’s MSDS Guru allows for a more streamlined and efficient approach to meet this standard. The MSDS Guru is a service that acts as the host of your database. You do a material safety data sheet search and manage functions of the application through your internet connection. It is fully scalable, allowing for an unlimited number of corporate regions, site facilities, department/areas and users.

MSDS Guru is an Application Service Provider (ASP) that acts as the host of your database. You access all of your MSDSs and management functionalities of the application through your Internet connection

The Setup:  Simply send your MSDSs to us. You don't even have to weed through and find duplicates; we do that for you.

Our staff of trained professionals will search the chemical manufacturer's websites to retrieve the most current copy or scan the MSDS.


We Index the following
• MSDS - Product Name, Revision Date, Internal Nickname or Internal MSDS Number.
• Manufacturer: Name, Address, Telephone number, Fax number, E-Mail address, Web site.
• Document: Title, Type, Language, Requested Date, Status, File Type (Scan or PDF); MSDS Number

The Service Phase

E&SSG will then provide you with:

• Secure and reliable, 24/7/365 availability. Allowing you and your personnel to retrieve any of your company's MSDSs
• Archive MSDSs to historical file to help satisfy OSHA's 30-year recordkeeping requirement
• Print MSDSs as needed
• Easily E-mail MSDSs as needed
• Access MSDSs by region, facility, department or storage area
• Up-to-date MSDSs are instantly accessible, reducing risk & liability for organization
• User-friendly interface, with flexible search options and optional multilingual MSDS capabilities
• Icons link you to various lists and reports, summary sheets, etc.
• Administration functionalities that allow you to add users, requests, and view custom MSDS reports
• Setup multiple corporate regions, site facilities, department/areas reporting options. Assign different levels of security access


Features

Organize
Your Company’s MSDSs: Many of today's company's MSDSs are in constant disarray and are usually highly unorganized. MSDS Guru recognized this problem and built feature rich organizing capabilities into MSDS Guru. Based on the recommendations of our current client base, we built a facility tree that affords you the ability to check MSDSs and add them to other locations in the company. MSDS levels can be set up from the corporate level, regions, facilitities/locations and even all the way down to a location's different departments. Simply put, a single person can manage an entire corporate entity no matter how many locations or facilities they may have.

Reports
Would you like to pull an MSDS report that would show you what MSDSs you have at any location in your company? MSDS Guru reporting functions allow you to do this and more. The reporting function will pull reports for any area that you choose. These reports can be sorted alphabetically by product or manufacturer name. Each report will show you what MSDSs you have in certain locations and include a .pdf link of every MSDS on the report. This way you can run reports and actually view any MSDS with a single click.

Search
The Material Safety Data Sheet search function allow administrators and employees of companies to search our entire MSDS database or just search your company’s own MSDS database. You can search by product name, manufacturer name, internal MSDS # or even by your own company's MSDS nicknames. MSDS Guru's search function allow you to narrow searches down to different locations in the company. These searches can further be narrowed down by exact or closest match. The MSDS Guru search functions are simple and easy to use for every employee in the company; therefore, sufficing OSHA's standard to make all MSDSs "readily accessible to all employees".

Request
Request new MSDS: Administrators of your MSDS Guru programs will have the ability to request new MSDSs by clicking on a request icon. You don?t need to call, fax or e-mail any information to us. You simply populate 4 fields with information we need to find your MSDS and our trained staff of professionals will locate and post your MSDS request within 48 hours of the initial request.

Archive
Is archiving old MSDSs a problem for you? MSDS Guru built in an archive tool that allows you to check a box to archive old MSDS's in order to suffice the 30 year recordkeeping rule set forth by OSHA.


Complimentary Service
 
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